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Anafunctors

Posted on June 16, 2014 by

This is part four in a series of posts on avoiding the axiom of choice (part one, part two, part three). In my previous post, we considered the “Axiom of Protoequivalence”—that is, the statement that every fully faithful, essentially surjective … Continue reading →

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AC and equivalence of categories

Posted on June 5, 2014 by

This is part three in a series of posts on avoiding the axiom of choice (part one, part two). In my previous post, I explained one place where the axiom of choice often shows up in category theory, namely, when … Continue reading →

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Unique isomorphism and generalized “the”

Posted on May 13, 2014 by

This is part two in a series of posts on avoiding the axiom of choice; you can read part one here. In category theory, one is typically interested in specifying objects only up to unique isomorphism. In fact, definitions which … Continue reading →

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Species definition clarification and exercises

Posted on December 6, 2012 by

[This is the fourth in a series of posts about combinatorial species. Previous posts: And now, back to your regularly scheduled combinatorial species; Decomposing data structures; Combinatorial species definition.] In my previous post I neglected to mention something quite crucial, … Continue reading →

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Combinatorial species definition

Posted on November 20, 2012 by

Continuing from my previous post, recall that the goal of species is to have a unified theory of containers with labeled1 locations. So, how do we actually specify such things (leaving aside for the moment the question of how we … Continue reading →

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Themes on Streams, Part II

Posted on May 20, 2011 by

In a previous post I claimed that comonad structures on R -> a are in one-to-one correspondence with monoid structures on R. In this post and the next I’ll justify that claim. Characterizing comonads on R -> a Suppose we … Continue reading →

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Themes on Streams

Posted on May 9, 2011 by

> {-# LANGUAGE DeriveFunctor, FlexibleInstances #-} Recall that a stream is a countably infinite sequence of values: > data Stream a = a :> Stream a > deriving (Functor, Show) > > sHead (a :> _) = a > sTail … Continue reading →

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