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Tambara Equipment

Hacker News Top · 2026-07-14 Cached

This article explains Tambara modules in category theory, their relation to monoidal functors and profunctor optics, and illustrates the concepts using Haskell code, drawing from a recent paper by Mateusz Stroiński.

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Actegories

Hacker News Top · 2026-07-14 Cached

An article explaining the concept of actegories in category theory and their role in programming optics such as lenses and prisms, with Haskell implementations.

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@BetaTomorrow: https://x.com/BetaTomorrow/status/2076465790925336763

X AI KOLs Timeline · 2026-07-13 Cached

This article delves into transfer learning from the perspective of category theory, proposing deep manifold theory. It argues that neural networks learn relational structures through attribute-free numerical computation, thereby enabling cross-domain transfer, and explains the internal logic of classification.

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Biological Motifs for Agentic Control

arXiv cs.AI · 2026-07-07 Cached

This paper develops a typed interface correspondence between Gene Regulatory Networks and agentic software systems using polynomial functors and wiring diagrams, mapping five biological motifs to composable software design patterns to address reliability and security challenges in autonomous AI agents.

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@PandaTalk8: A few years ago, I met an extraordinary humanities student. He asked me what object-oriented programming is. I said it's a kind of abstraction and gave him a long explanation about classes, inheritance, polymorphism, etc. Finally, he said thoughtfully, 'So what you're talking about is really just classification.' His reply shocked me—turns out I was the one who never understood. Indeed, it really is just classification...

X AI KOLs Timeline · 2026-07-04 Cached

A tweet shares a personal anecdote about explaining object-oriented programming to a humanities student, who insightfully summarized it as 'classification', leading the author to discover applied category theory and a related course.

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Applied Category Theory Course (2018)

Hacker News Top · 2026-07-03 Cached

An online course on applied category theory taught by John Baez, based on the book 'Seven Sketches in Compositionality', covering ordered sets, resource theories, and databases through a series of lecture notes.

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Learning Transfers: Kan Extensions for Neural Invariants

arXiv cs.LG · 2026-06-09 Cached

This paper introduces a categorical framework for transfer learning using Kan extensions, defining a transfer discrepancy that compares target invariants against those forced by a prescribed task transformation. It proves finite cokernel formulas for chain complexes and persistence modules and validates the approach on neural latent point clouds.

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@omarsar0: This was one of the standout AI papers of the week. (bookmark it) It tackles a question most self-improving AI agents i…

X AI KOLs Following · 2026-06-07 Cached

This paper introduces a categorical framework for distinguishing genuine scientific discovery from mere retrieval or search in self-improving AI agents, using category theory to formalize regime transitions. The authors demonstrate the framework with a protein mechanics example where an agent's accuracy drops as it tackles harder problems, but its theory compresses more data, indicating real discovery.

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Coalgebras and Automata

Lobsters Hottest · 2026-05-30 Cached

An introductory literate Haskell document exploring the relationship between coalgebras and automata, demonstrating how state machines can be modeled using fold and unfold operations within category theory.

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CQL: Categorical Databases

Hacker News Top · 2026-05-30 Cached

CQL is an open-source tool that uses category theory to perform database operations such as querying, migrating, and integrating data with built-in correctness guarantees through theorem proving.

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The Cognitive Categorical Transformer: Category-Theoretic Inductive Biases for Language Modeling

arXiv cs.AI · 2026-05-29 Cached

The Cognitive Categorical Transformer (CCT) augments GPT-2 Small with category-theoretic components, achieving a 12% relative perplexity reduction on WikiText-103 under matched training conditions, with simplicial message passing responsible for 84% of the improvement.

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A Dynamical Framework for Cognitive Processes Based on Transformations and Semantic Equivalence

arXiv cs.AI · 2026-05-26 Cached

This paper proposes a structural and dynamical framework for modeling cognitive processes using iterative state transformations and semantic equivalence, integrating dynamical systems, category theory, and feedback mechanisms to model cognition as a process evolving toward stable interpretations.

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Church Encoding, Parametricity, and the Yoneda Lemma

Lobsters Hottest · 2026-05-21 Cached

A deep dive into the theoretical foundations of Church encoding, connecting it with parametricity and the Yoneda lemma in the context of System F and polymorphic lambda calculus.

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Profunctor Equipment in Haskell

Hacker News Top · 2026-05-16 Cached

This blog post provides a toy Haskell implementation of profunctor equipment, including natural transformations and composition, to make category-theoretic concepts accessible to programmers.

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Building ML framework with Rust and Category Theory

Hacker News Top · 2026-05-14 Cached

This article announces a working draft book 'Category Theory for Tiny ML in Rust' and a public workshop introducing a tiny ML pipeline using Rust and category theory, aimed at making machine learning structure explicit through typed transformations.

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