Why are apples so beloved (linguistically)?
Many years ago, probably when I was in grade six or seven, I accidentally overheard the following snippet from a family conversation. The speaker was the wif...
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Category theory notes 20: Category theory for posets (Part 2)
In my previous post “Category theory notes 19: Category theory for posets (Part 1)” I began writing about the “poset versions” of some category-theoretic res...
Category theory notes 19: Category theory for posets (Part 1)
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