Interested in mathematics (homotopy theory, category theory, topos theory), programming languages, and philosophy.
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Last Notes npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @nprofile…xuzd enjoy people acting like they have never seen the outcomes of the personal burrito delivery exploitation complex npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @nprofile…sqfw conditioning is when fiber of dependent sum, integration is when projection of dependent sum npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @nprofile…xuzd there is something quite strange and revealing that some problems of mathematics can be solved by LLMs but they simultaneously do very poorly on Bongard problems. One is left looking at tasks one might automate and asking “is this something a competent five year old would be good at, or just a cracked software engineer?” npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders The corporate politics of procurement seems to me one of the most interesting under-discussed questions today, especially in the context of universities or schools. There are so many pieces one reads berating academic labour to get serious about future finances; about the future viability of the liberal university, but the follow up is never to ask who is in charge of procurement of e-learning software, never how much it is costing, never whether the department(s) responsible for this collection of choices are ‘living in the real world’. In my experience, many of the same trends re-occur through a glass darkly in other corporate environments where a product manager will push to pay millions of dollars per year for a certain service, but won’t hire a single extra engineer to work on an internally developed custom version of a similar service. npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @nprofile…rrqe I think Girard’s idea of ‘blind spot or Althusser’s of ‘problematic’ are much more important ideas for whether socially oppressed people manage to succeed, that is to say, whether a subject is open to introspective practices and imminent critique. From this point of view it makes almost no sense to speak of any distinction as practical vs theoretical except to say that theoretical disciplines often more closely embody such ideals (but if we are honest both are typically horrible at it) npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @nprofile…8eua this is from Granström’s book Treatise On Intuitionistic Type Theory which situates Lebnitz’ project in a broader movement towards a universal language ‘for logic’ (in the ancient sense of the word). The book makes the case (I can’t say whether successfully or otherwise yet) that ML type theory should be considered the modern successor to this project npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders “A lot of present day work in computer science has some connection with the lingua characteristica and it is a curious fact that, in the past 50 years, computer science, as a subject, has had more impact on the lingua characteristica than logic, mathematics, and philosophy together. The reason seems to be that a certain amount of realism is, so to say, forced upon the computer scientist and this realism is, as it seems, an important ingredient in the lingua characteristica. This is why few implementations of mathematics on computer are based on Zermelo-Frankel set theory, despite it presently being the most popular foundation of mathematics.” npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @nprofile…rrqe I think it would be reasonable that school informally teaches some of the algebraic properties of division with remainder e.g. what is the remainder in long division when taking the sum etc. but feel strongly that university / college should be for introspective practice and should include 20th century mathematics (I am, for the same reason, dead against high school style calculus in college) npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @nprofile…rrqe this is also true of management at a corporation, they might once have been your totally together colleague but once they begin in management they will lose all perspective and quickly have no technical knowledge of the projects they supposedly run npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @nprofile…rrqe I don’t know how to explain the change of basis matrix in linear algebra and similar _without_ commutative diagrams npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @nprofile…ral2 what makes something a subcanonical(/supercanonical) sheaf? npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @nprofile…stct strongly recommend getting a zwilling kettle npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @nprofile…rrqe the idea that something consists of ‘composable parts’ and ergo category theory has something profound to say about is purely for vapid grant writing. From grothendieck’s work to Eilenberg and MacLane’s, none of it has been about finding something that exhibits “compositional structure”, whatever that means, and that is not ever how truly deep interconnections occur npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @nprofile…rrqe I like the idea of Neil Postman’s inquiry based education (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquiry_education), but I find there is a almost fundamental trade off between inquiry and content coverage npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @nprofile…6kk0 Interesting thoughts, that I am quite philosophically aligned to. Some random things come to mind: npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @nprofile…6kk0 I was thinking recently watching various “essays” on youtube that they wouldn’t pass muster even in the era when essay writing was funded by the state department. It is a way of laundering quarter-baked ideas npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @nprofile…6kk0 the responses to this technology from just about everyone (including detractors who never used it, sadly) are going to send me insane npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @nprofile…s6x2 Merchants of Doubt, for example, is just a straightforward history of widespread corporate conspiracies that we know to be 100% true npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @nprofile…hszg @nprofile…6kk0 most of these agencies have something similar to the UK’s NICE which has to decide not just what is a good for public health, but what is the most impactful way to spend money (this is why the UK will not routinely offer flu vaccines to people under 65 - the efficacy is not very good value for money). This is an exceedingly difficult question and deserves more of our sympathies given they are answering radically difficult moral and economic questions of life and death under often increasingly constrained resources npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @nprofile…6kk0 @nprofile…9rha I just heard someone say people should hire the current CS grads because they’re going to be the last ones for a while that actually npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders At an intuitive level for people who prefer logic, the idea of the functor of points is to study a ring R via the functor Hom(R.-). If R is presented as ℤ[x_1,…x_n]/(f_1,…f_m) then we can think of this as a logical theory which has n constants satisfying the m axioms given by f_1,…f_m and the functor above can be described as: npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @nprofile…6kk0 Your thread makes me think about the idea that “governments structure markets”, that is to say - governments create a regime of safety or quality regulations, property laws, copyright laws etc. - and in contrast there is no such entity as the “free market” which would exist outside the structuring that takes place. To the extent that “free markets” do exist, the App Store gives a great example of what they converge towards: a scam economy driven by a race to the bottom where marginal unit cost converges towards production cost and skilled professionals cannot compete against junk npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @nprofile…s6x2 GHC notes are a good example too of the kinds of many-to-many source relationships large projects eventually want to be able to communicate npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @nprofile…v2av if you have sheaves on a topological space, then the subobject classifier is given by the downward closure of any open set. One way of thinking about the subobject classifier is that it classifies where something is situated - e.g. it answers the way one variable set might be situated with respect to another - and so my inclination would be just to say that the subobject classifier is one answer to the question npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @nprofile…59k6 your first thing doesn’t seem correct to me: if I ask an expert to prove whether the well ordering principle holds in a topos then they will say “it doesn’t because as usually formulated it is a classical principle” whereas an LLM will give what statistically looks like a proof - what people mean is that the output looks like the average output across large text to “please provide something that looks like a proof of this fact” npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @nprofile…6kk0 only an LLM could give an answer to the query “please write me a novel legal argument that corporations and unions have speech rights, via the first amendment, which would be curtailed by restricting their political contributions” npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @nprofile…6kk0 I remember being amazed when I first went to America and even in a cheap diner they immediately bring you a water, give you free refills on coffee, don’t charge for packets of condiments… the UK is really something else when it comes to basic customer service in so many domains npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @nprofile…6kk0 do you find the performance to now feel bad in light of modern hardware or for these purposes it is good enough? npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @nprofile…59k6 this is v nice and begins to explain why topology is intimately tied up in logic (e.g. recursively enumerable sets that are not recursive) npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @nprofile…59k6 what would primarily change about it? npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @nprofile…uxsy @nprofile…6kk0 @nprofile…6al5 @nprofile…hszg @nprofile…l9jz this analogy is totally wrong and misguided - studying the topos of G-sets is not something from elementary group theory since it is a totally different emphasis. Grothendieck first realized if G is a galois group for a field k, then the topos of G-sets is equivalent to the étale site of k and the group cohomology is the same as the étale cohomology (which here is also the galois cohomology). You can think this is all words and just re-packaging of known objects except the geometric point of view this enabled is crucial and the grothendieck school solved the Weil conjectures using it. The topos of sets with permutation actions is one of the richest objects in mathematics and so of course it appears in many areas, in many guises - trying to act like you need to defend your turf like this comes across as anti-intellectual and is not becoming of anyone (generally most attempts at selling out your colleagues in another department for their lack of rigor comes across like a scab to my ears) npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @nprofile…6kk0 I think _the_ way to do a mathematics reading group that has cash value is you meet each week to collectively solve the exercises - it’s not perfect, for the pacing reasons you say - but the exercises are a strong forcing function on keeping everyone with some direct contact for what they can do and for reading analytically and with a self-driven purpose (reading groups based around one person ‘presenting the chapter’ on the other hand, have never worked for me very well) npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @nprofile…6kk0 I do get the sense that the kinds of deep investment that something like emacs or vim or various unix tools is at serious odds with current broad ideologies around what is or could be valuable to learn, not sure if this is merely misplaced nostalgia against younger generations, but I don’t think so (and I think they are only responded to incentives) npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @nprofile…6kk0 I think you already probably answered, but do you see a future for Forester to produce books (I realize the knowledge model might be antithetical in some respects)? I was always interested in Pollen (and I think I recall you had some experiments in it long ago) and wanted something that better fits that ideal if I can ever find it npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @nprofile…6kk0 I suggested at work we make and use a python tool which adds Any types to all function signatures so that it matches our current expectations npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @nprofile…s6x2 Quine was also against higher order logic due to his very esoteric ideas about what grounds the meaning of the logical quantifiers (still held as serious for reasons I can’t grasp) - a view which I believe will come to be seen as more and more incorrect over time npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @nprofile…6kk0 I would seriously like someone to publish the detailed expenditures of one of these universities to see where the actual costs lie, in the UK it cannot be lecturer/researcher wages or teaching equipment… npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @nprofile…59k6 @nprofile…fa4k @nprofile…e5g0 it’s also clear that the algorithm means that the site now heavily pushes conflict and the American version of British tabloid racist nonsense. I don’t think it is valuable to be writing in to the letters page of the Daily Mail each week correcting their pitiful worldview. npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @nprofile…s6x2 I’d be interested to hear why? I feel like lenses (+ other optics) are really conceptually amazing as a way of thinking, but probably encourage a certain kind of Java mindset of needless ceremony and needless busywork npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @nprofile…6kk0 @nprofile…lgwr hopefully this isn’t insulting, but I sincerely think lots of us who lack some confidence coming into academic disciplines (perhaps due to background, class, personal disposition, whatever else) could benefit from a classic like Adler’s ‘How To Read A Book’ if only to mediate on what it means to read with the purpose of gaining understanding - what strategies we can systematically develop to use books to go from confusion to understanding npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders A: Mathematics is simply impossible to define, mathematics is what mathematicians do! npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @nprofile…6kk0 some people so enjoy the spaces out “dopamine hit” that they’ll look for any excuse not to see how these technologies are clearly connected to the literacy crisis; the reading crisis; the wide-scale belief in conspiracies; various, largely self-imposed, political crises etc. It is motivated reasoning like how people pretend that criticizing addictive video games or gambling is akin to taking part in a moral panic. npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @nprofile…fa4k I would love to know if this is somehow caused by the relationship between n-type and h-level in HoTT where there is a mismatch of size 2 npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @nprofile…s6x2 I hope you write a book (or several) one day :)) npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @nprofile…fa4k that should perhaps be a warning about how we shouldn’t so easily go along with provocateurs simply because we happen to like their target - perhaps especially so npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders Does Ren Γ Δ act on terms covariantly or contravariantly in the sense that one has: npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @nprofile…fa4k @nprofile…p3dv she also just constantly slanders her colleagues for clicks and encourages conspiracy thinking that scientists are mostly taxpayer leaches. She mostly seems to possess all the nuance of a boulder when it comes to almost all controversies she decides to weigh in on. npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders I’ve had multiple job interviews in my life where I was rejected for “lack of enthusiasm” and I find it funny that “teaching yourself a field in your spare time” doesn’t count for enthusiasm compared with having a certain kind of prototypical American affect npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders "In view of this, it is ironic that introductory programming is most often taught in a highly imperative style. This may be a vestige of a belief, common throughout the 1960s and 1970s, that programs that call procedures must inherently be less efficient than programs that perform assignments. (Steele (1977) debunks this argument.) Alternatively it may reflect a view that step-by-step assignment is easier for beginners to visualize than procedure call. Whatever the reason, it often saddles beginning programmers with "should I set this variable before or after that one" concerns that can complicate programming and obscure the important ideas.” - Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @nprofile…6kk0 mathematicians and mathematically-oriented people just seem to only be comfortable with induction on the natural numbers in a way that makes me think that time with a proof assistant in a mathematics education will prove beneficial npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @nprofile…59k6 the endless parading of cruelty as virtue is fairly impossible to contemplate too often npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @nprofile…6kk0 before I hook it up, I go as far as writing an embedded dsl for the language to overcome my dual irrationalities about it npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @nprofile…6kk0 Rust is good, except doing “functional programming” in it is often a disaster (mainly when a closure captures something) and the memory management model it has is often bad for tree traversal passes a compiler might do. It doesn’t meet your criteria as it is too young, but I’m interested to try out Zig in my next experiment like this (this will surely win at cross-compilation) npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders Of the many reasons to dislike the over-emphasis of classical logic, one must be the misapprehension it gives us about soundness and completeness. These are sometimes taken as if properties simpliciter of a syntactic theory, because we have been fooled with the misapprehension that there is some given theory of semantic truth - a ‘standard semantics’ of truth tables, or of a first order structure. npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders “There are two well-known reactions to reading what one has written long ago: to think, 'How brilliant I was then: I could never do that now'; and to wonder how one could have written such poor stuff.” - Michael Dummett npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @nprofile…n8ju one of the messages I got from Andrew Bacon’s excellent book on higher-order logic is that HOL (and thus lambda languages) give a significant language within which to express various ideas of (higher-order) ontology, modality, equality etc. npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @nprofile…fa4k @nprofile…den0 mathematicians mostly “program” against abstract interfaces, they just need a kind of first order local set theory with sorts for the natural numbers, real numbers, set theoretic operations etc. Hardly any use the ZFC implementations. npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @npub1knz…c73p I think you will find looking at the exit polling data about how registered republicans voted very sobering npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @npub1knz…c73p I do hope, in the short term, that the Democrats realize they cannot win in a battle of oligarchs (with their own oligarchs) and citizens united was a total disaster that they need to actually talk about again. Nadar-ist consumer protectionism is also something they never think about even as they had Lina Khan and the best FTC in years, their leadership seems incapable of finding winnng messages - they stopped calling JD Vance weird as some strategist apparently said it was “too negative”. npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @npub1aa3…zykt Dummett’s program re-assessed in the light of formal proof assistants - you simply love to see it npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @npub1cec…u8re I don’t immediately see why DNE holds for examples like this? Might be missing something obvious npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders @npub1knz…c73p I did actually mean to! One description of the Cauchy completion is the tiny objects in the category of presheaves npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders Type theorists and set theorists both frequently agree with a kind of tacit formalist idea - “if mathematics is not written in our language then it is not mathematics” - category theory did not become mathematics when people decided universes / reflection / classes made it set theoretically respectable, your proof development did not become mathematics when agda finished typechecking npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders "Finally, yes, every generation thinks the younger generation is failing to make the grade—except for the current cohort of professors, who are by and large more invested in their students’ success and mental health and more responsive to student needs than any group of educators in human history. We are not complaining about our students. We are complaining about what has been taken from them." npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders Learnt the other day that propositional relevance logic is apparently undecidable npub19u906k47vnunmzn4scrr77qmd8nr8pamnf2d232ulnjn77u8a5rqjtn6t5 Boarders Are there any CS courses or books which concentrate on “design” - not necessarily in the sense of software engineering and thinking about good design of a codebase (though that is not irrelevant), but meaning “design” in terms of “user”-design e.g. library design, DSL design or application design (e.g. I could imagine such a course based around re-thinking some part of computing like text editing, version control, unix utilities etc. from the ground up and thinking about what is a good approach to their design)?
