julesh @julesh.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 9hHere is an extremely neat definition of dependent lenses I've never seen before, as kleisli morphisms of the extension (ie. the equivalence of categories from containers to polynomial functors) considered as some exotic kind of generalised monad 010
julesh @julesh.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 11h> apt install texlive-full *goes away to do some other stuff for a while* 000
julesh @julesh.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026New profile picture who dis (not sure I'll keep it yet) 000
julesh @julesh.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026It occurs to me that if actually working AI was developed 70 years earlier, as many of the earliest pioneers of the field apparently expected, it would definitely have been immediately taken over by hyper-capitalism back then too 000
julesh @julesh.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026When your brain is smooth so all the thoughts just run off it, that's called a thoughterfall 020
julesh @julesh.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026Reason number whatever that I already hate linux + kde coming from a mac: keyboard shortcuts for diacritics are just shit. After a ridiculous amount of trial an error I have managed to type ëẽéêèẹȩ, but as far as I can tell it is straight up impossible to type ė (a diacritic used in Lithuanian) […]mathstodon.xyzOriginal post on mathstodon.xyz 000
julesh @julesh.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026Very proud that I successfully did my nails on a moving train without any major mishaps 000
julesh @julesh.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026Doing machine learning (parametric anamorphisms) 010
julesh @julesh.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026RE: wandering.shop/@xgranade/1173609604… Several of these are historical and/or scams, but it's a constant source of confusion that the term AI now refers to at least 3 very different technologies that Actually Work: - LLMs and similar generative models - deep reinforcement […]mathstodon.xyzOriginal post on mathstodon.xyz 000
julesh @julesh.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026I noticed a small sign on a platform in Glasgow central station saying cctv footage is used to train AI models I guess you can opt out of it by walking to London 024
julesh @julesh.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026Rug discovery (visiting small carpet shops in cities like Tehran looking for undocumented designs) 010
julesh @julesh.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026In the very early days of applied category theory around 2018, I twote something to the effect that the next layer up from applied category theory will be design patterns In the last several weeks at Glaive I feel like we have finally reached the design patterns layer 010
julesh @julesh.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026Open games are evolving! Preview of a blog post I'm about to write 110
julesh @julesh.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026Train internet creating a very 21st century Cthulhu cult chant 000
julesh @julesh.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026Flashback to the one blog post I wrote so far about dependent optics: julesh.com/posts/2025-10-16-depende… I really need to continue this series. Unlike most blog posts I write this is not something I can do easily, this stuff is really complicated and I am a bit out of […]mathstodon.xyzOriginal post on mathstodon.xyz 020
julesh @julesh.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026We had a very close encounter with a very inquisitive fops 120
Reposted by juleshtheHigherGeometer @highergeometer.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026@julesh Gödel was reviewer 2 on Hilbert's program, supplying a counterexample to the main claim 011
julesh @julesh.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026Last week I went to 2 different events. Most of the time I was surrounded by mostly pure mathematicians at an event about AI, and on the whole everybody seemed to be extremely depressed and/or shellshocked about recent events. Then one evening I went to the new London Haskell meetup and it was […]mathstodon.xyzOriginal post on mathstodon.xyz 050
julesh @julesh.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026Hilbert was reviewer 2 to Euclid, finding all the mistakes 2500 years later 111
julesh @julesh.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026> "The agent escaped its sandbox" > looks inside > It's just evaling untrusted code again 020
Reposted by juleshtheHigherGeometer @highergeometer.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026Here's a question that occurred to me: suppose I have a symmetric monoidal category with diagonals and *one* projection (say \\(\mathrm{pr}_1 \colon A \otimes B \to A\\) (so diagonals and this projection is natural. is the monoidal structure necessarily cartesian? 132
julesh @julesh.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026RE: mathstodon.xyz/@mc/1172975366592084… It's lenses againmathstodon.xyz 020
julesh @julesh.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026It's not a magic box, it's a sufficiently advanced technology box 020
julesh @julesh.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026Bro, just ask Claude whether the Turing machine halts or not 021
julesh @julesh.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026One of the spots in London that can pass for Amsterdam 020
Reposted by juleshraganwald.com @raganwald.functional.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026“Selection functions and lenses,” from @julesh julesh.com/posts/2021-03-30-selecti…julesh.comJules Hedges - Selection functions and lenses 001
julesh @julesh.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026Flashback to this very short blog post I wrote 5 years ago: Selection functions and lenses julesh.com/posts/2021-03-30-selecti…julesh.comJules Hedges - Selection functions and lenses 010
julesh @julesh.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026Part 5 in the increasingly inaccurately named European Trilogy 010
julesh @julesh.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026One simple practical way to fight against corporations and some of the other bad people is to randomly interleave sexual content with serious work. For slightly complicated historical reasons most of them are puritan (the same ones we expelled from Europe back in the day) so I suspect it sort of […]mathstodon.xyzOriginal post on mathstodon.xyz 110
julesh @julesh.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into eepiness 000
julesh @julesh.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026bro just one more coffee bro one more coffee will fix it bro I swear 000
julesh @julesh.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026Wir müssen wissen *audio distortion kicks in* Wir werden wissen *bass drops* 102
julesh @julesh.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026Functors Lens → Set are the same thing as strong profunctors Setᵒᵖ x Set → Set (the Tambara representation theorem), so "dependent strong profunctors" on Set can probably be usefully *defined* to be functors Poly → Set 101
julesh @julesh.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026Sequence of increasingly mind-blowing realisations: - Every polynomial functor of the form ayᵃ is canonically a comonoid for the composition product - aka polynomial comonad - aka category - these are precisely the indiscrete categories (the ones where there is exactly 1 morphism between each […]mathstodon.xyzOriginal post on mathstodon.xyz 200
julesh @julesh.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026*Taps the sign* There is no royal road to mathematics 001
julesh @julesh.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026Is that a large cardinal in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me 000
julesh @julesh.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026Self-OH: "I'm starting to think that categories might be really important... maybe even as important as additive containers" 100
julesh @julesh.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026An LLM is a device for turning water into theorems 000
julesh @julesh.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026Which is to say, proving hard Theorems is pretty neat, but it is entirely unrelated to the subject that I do professionally. I have never proved a single Theorem in my entire life. 100
julesh @julesh.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026Throwback to this gnarly trilogy of blog posts I wrote 3 years ago: "Monadic lenses are the optic for right monad modules" Part 1: julesh.com/posts/2023-06-07-monadic… Part 2 […]mathstodon.xyzOriginal post on mathstodon.xyz 000
julesh @julesh.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026Building my website locally is a *serious* installation, it has both Haskell and OCaml as prerequisites, and a whole lot of haskell libraries 100