A poset can be thought of as a category with the property that each hom-set is either empty or singleton (technically that’s a preorder, but I’ll skip that for now). There’s also a category of posets. In my work lately, I’ve actually wanted to point at an object in a category and say “this oneContinueContinue reading “Posets inside of categories”
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Adjoint School 2023
Category theory has been “applied” in one sense or another since the beginning. Eilenberg himself studied automata theory. But the applied category theory community as it currently exists formally coalesced in 2018. All at once, we had the first instance of the Applied Category Theory conference, the accompanying Adjoint School, and the announcement of theContinueContinue reading “Adjoint School 2023”
Joe Moeller 