I wanted to highlight some work using optics from category theory to precisely describe systems where an environment and a controller interact bidirectionally. Particular interest is taken with agents that learn via gradient descent, and compositional game theory.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.06332
https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.04641
This is really cool, I watched a lecture recently which uses category theory to derive a boolean version of gradient descent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdinMKXW86g
You know, this makes me think something good for this forum would be an associated Youtube channel, along the lines of The School of Materialist research, somewhere where people on this forum can share their research. I'd love to see a presentation on your work!
Speaking of, have you (or your collaborators) ever given a talk/presentation on this work, if so could you link it?
@madredalchemist this is not my work, but I linked what I think is the best introduction to the work (it's the first link), but this talk can also be an introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkZPH3Vb5ug.
after a convo with Ian wright about category theory, I've been thinking of doing an introduction to category theory for marxists that doesn't use the traditional examples when learning category theory (topology, algebra, logic), but I'd probably need someone new to category theory to help me draft it.
some additional links of interest (not all of these I have fully gotten through myself):
https://julesh.com/2019/11/27/categorical-cybernetics-a-manifesto/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-utRjvxHnQ0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXy7QPp9Cdg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K3FHVqlBb8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKM8JdXJEII
You know, this makes me think something good for this forum would be an associated Youtube channel, along the lines of The School of Materialist research, somewhere where people on this forum can share their research. I'd love to see a presentation on your work!
a few people on this forum have channels where they discuss their work or others' work. i know Paul Cockshott does and i owe my marxist philosophy and interest in economic planning to him.
there's nothing to stop you from making one and uploading power point lectures or presentations similar to how Paul does it. judging from Paul's audience, i'm sure there are people out there who would like to see it!
luckily the standard tool for screen recording is FLOSS https://obsproject.com/ so the entry cost is nothing more than a microphone.
@joe fun fact, you can actually make screen recordings with powerpoint as well. This is what we did at my old work.