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Re:Applied Category Theory by marquis-chacha on Friday April 19, 2019 @03:39PM (#19702364)
"Applied Category Theory" almost seems a bit tongue-in-cheek to me, given Category Theory is designed to distill the concepts found in a bunch of different "applied" fields into one, theoretical, framework. (That was my impression from the intro lecture, at least)
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Re:Applied Category Theory by brianberns on Friday April 19, 2019 @03:47PM (#19702436)
They should call the class “Concrete Nonsense” (since category theory itself is sometimes described as “abstract nonsense”).
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Re:Applied Category Theory by saidajigumi on Friday April 19, 2019 @04:10PM (#19702587)
Which phrase, I note with profound glee, has its own Wikipedia page for precisely this usage:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_nonsense

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Re:Applied Category Theory by quickthrower2 on Friday April 19, 2019 @05:33PM (#19703193)
Maybe “Brutalist Nonsense”
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