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charcircuit on Dec 1, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why I am learning category theory

>What is 70+ years of computer science doing for you as a software engineer?

No, what does category theory unlock from mathematics that I can not get without it.

ukj on Dec 1, 2022 [–]

Nothing. You can re-invent and re-discover everything. By yourself. From first principles.

You can re-discover and re-invent all of computation, Mathematics and physics.

Heck, you don’t even need computers if you have pen and paper.

You can do absolutely everything all by yourself. All you need is infinite time.

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