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Re:Seven Sketches in Compositionality: An Invitation to Appl... by Koshkin on Sunday July 07, 2019 @04:10PM (#20377494)
Can you please elaborate.
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Re:Seven Sketches in Compositionality: An Invitation to Appl... by benrbray on Monday July 08, 2019 @04:58AM (#20381072)
Not sure what the poster had in mind, but I will refer you to some notes by a geophysicist about intuitively understanding adjoints:http://www.reproducibility.org/RSF/book/bei/conj/paper.pdf
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Re:Seven Sketches in Compositionality: An Invitation to Appl... by ginnungagap on Monday July 08, 2019 @06:36AM (#20381518)
This talks about adjoints of operators, which is where the category theory terminology comes from, but a pretty different concept overall
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