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Monthly Archives: May 2006
On semi-strictness
Update: One correction and one addition; changes in red. Second update: another correction. I had a couple of very interesting responses to my speculation about n-categories. As well as John Baez’s comment, I had an email from Tom Leinster pointing … Continue reading
Posted in category theory, speculation
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Calgary
Next week I’m off to Calgary, where I’m giving a talk at the category theory session of the Canadian Mathematical Society’s summer meeting, and then a (completely different) talk at FMCS. I’m not too worried about the FMCS talk, because … Continue reading
Posted in category theory, news
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Speculating about n-categories
According to the stats I’ve already had one reader, so perhaps it’s time for me to stick my neck out: this speculation tag is intended for things that might be utter nonsense, a fair proportion of which I shall no … Continue reading
Posted in category theory, speculation
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Unbiased bicategories and canonical choices
One of my favourite recent books is Tom Leinster’s Higher Operads, Higher Categories. Among the things I like about it is that he’s not afraid to dwell on issues that are conventionally dismissed as trivial, such as the distinction between … Continue reading
Posted in chatter
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Hello, world!
I thought it would be fun to start a “work” blog, where I can talk about things that I’m working on or would like to work on, or just think are cool and interesting. It remains to be seen whether … Continue reading
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