Q: Would category theory help me do my job?
A: If you have to ask, you can't afford it.
If your job takes up 100% of your mental capacity, it leaves you no room for growth.

Russian media's parade of useful idiots continues.

If you think your phone company's customer support sucks, you haven't tried Orange France. I bought Top-up Max and I can't call Europe. They tell me: 'Unfortunately, this recharge does not allow international calls,' despite what their web site says.

We'll know we have reached the singularity when the AI is able to sort our garbage into recycling bins. Everything else is just hype.

The problem with conspiracy theories is that they produce so much noise that real conspiracies go undetected.

In Zug, Switzerland.

In Haskell Maybe is mostly used to encode the return type of partial functions: ones that are undefined for some values of their arguments. Instead of failing, such functions return Nothing. In other programming languages partial functions are often implemented using core dumps.

Symbolic beliefs tend to be socially strategic endorsements, used for signaling group identity & justifying intuitions we already have. Experiments even suggest that people who express them understand their falsity. Put money on the table, and they'll often bet against them.

I went today to a Joe Bonamassa concert in Paris.

Adjoint folds are easy when you use double categories.

Angella Collier is spot on. youtu.be/wBBnfu8N_J0?si…

Working on some adjoint anamorphisms.

Sam Bankman-Fried has just been sentenced to 25 years in prison

remember when some supposedly very smart people were so sure he wasn't even going to be investigated

For completeness, a blog post with the categorical view of the pre-lens construction. bartoszmilewski.com/2024/03/24/neu…

New blog post on using lenses and profunctors to implement a neural network. bartoszmilewski.com/2024/03/22/neu…