Re: Category theory for understanding the internet

"Ben" <BenSprott@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Is anyone interested in sharing ideas on the following basic notion:

XML documents with URLs are objects
Hyperlinks are morphisms
The web has category structure
Groups have Topos structure

A scientist had a problem. ,,I know'' - said the scientist - ,,I'll use
category theory to solve my problem''. Now the scientist had two
problems.[*]

Put it simple - it's just impossible to obtain striking results by applying
some ad hoc methods to an arbitrary problem. Category theory is not a silver
bullet.


mp

[*] Paraphrasing Jamie Zawinski's famous sentence.

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