Category Theory 1.1: Motivation and Philosophy

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  @darksniper87 · 7 years ago (edited)

  Me when I was a student: Who cares about theory, I want to learn Java and get a job<br>Me today: God I wish I wasn&apos;t so stupid back then

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• AR

  @Arturcook · 9 years ago

  holy shit frank zappa is an amazing teacher

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• TO

  @toddfulton2280 · 6 years ago

  Watched this last night, woke up the whole family loling at &quot;Object Oriented programming... you get data races for free.&quot; That needs to be a meme if it isn&apos;t already.

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• JO

  @JoeWhittles · 9 years ago

  Hi there Bartosz, is it possible to enable community translation for these videos? I&apos;d like to transcribe these lectures for hard-of-hearing people.

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• SH

  @shimulchowdhury2168 · 5 years ago

  Thanks for keeping this playlist open. In the last 3 years, I came back to this playlist numerous times to learn about category theory. One of the hardest topic to follow as a part-time thing. But when the teacher is such enthusiastic, I can learn at least something.

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• DE

  @denniskozevnikoff1209 · 3 years ago

  Math itself is interesting, philosophy is fascinating, but when you combine the two like Bartosz does in this series, you get some mind-blowing stuff!

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• SI

  @sigseg · 7 years ago

  Bartosz was really traumatised by C++ template programming. I sympathise :P

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• AH

  @ahmedamraniakdi2143 · 8 years ago

  I would live in my faculty if every teacher started a lesson like this

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• TI

  @tiffany_woodhouse · 5 years ago

  This is so great that I just want to cry! As a CS student coming from a philosophy background this is a far too rare experience - so much introspective into various sciences. Here is a virtual thank you hug!

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• MA

  @mateuszreda9945 · 2 years ago

  I asked a popular AI chatbot about online courses on lambda calculus and got a recommendation for your lectures. Who would have thought 7 years ago!<br>Dzięki i pozdrawiam!

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• HA

  @hansschenker · 1 year ago (edited)

  Bartosz Milewski The Tiger of Category Theory! (is he a Tiger because he is walking left and right during his talk, or is he a Tiger because he is chasing big Abstractions?)

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• JU

  @JusLoveTV · 4 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8LbkfSSR58&amp;t=2718">45:18</a> &quot;...maybe our brains are such that we have to see structure everywhere and if we can&apos;t find this structure, we just give up. So in this way, category theory is not really about mathematics or physics. Category theory is about our minds - how our brains work&quot;. Thank you so much for this moment - it was incredibly poetic and enlightening! The way you describe things reminds me so much of Carlo Rovelli&apos;s writing. You bring much-needed joy and passion to the subject and you are a phenomenal teacher.

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