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I know people who are members of CODATA [1], didn't know they were working on this kind of thing. Maybe people could search for previous uses when they are pick
by rjsw 6y ago
I know people who are members of CODATA [1], didn't know they were working on this kind of thing. Maybe people could search for previous uses when they are picking a name for a concept, I think there are websites that let you do that /s.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_Data_for_Science_and_Technology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_Data_for_Science_...
- peterkelly 6y agoIt's a polymorphic name.
- wk_end 6y agoCategory theory, which is where the convention of using a "co-" prefix to refer to the "arrow-flipped" dual of a category comes from, predates CODATA by nearly twenty years. Maybe the CODATA folks shouldn't have presumed that they were the category-theoretic dual of data?