Zanzi @ Monoidal Cafe

Applied category theorist, working on merging category theory and functional programming.
https://zanzix.github.io/

Pronouns: she/her

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2026-03-26 17:14:37 UTC

Where are the nuanced left-wing takes on modern AI and LLMs?
So much of the discourse around this tech is centered on rejecting it because of who currently owns it. But like all tech, it can be used for both oppression and liberation.
Who is focusing on the latter?

2025-12-21 21:34:54 UTC

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Maybe it's less about advice and more about encouraging other people to do more of it by showing them that it's possible

2025-05-23 12:19:54 UTC

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I remember watching this Dexter's Lab episode!

2025-02-26 18:52:07 UTC

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Yep, the guy is a scumbag. Though he's also part of Musk's inner circle, so I'd say it's less "prescience" and more "directly influencing the agenda".

2025-02-26 00:45:32 UTC

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I miss the days when these people weren't mainstream. This stuff started around similar circles as the rationalist/Less Wrong crowd, that whole community has always been enmeshed with some extreme-right undercurrents, and Yarvin himself was an active poster on lesswrong in the early days.

2025-02-21 23:57:08 UTC

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Ahh, that's exciting :D Is it the climate stuff?
Let me or @npub1vlp…tswa know when you find out what your schedule is like and we can plan something!

2025-02-21 23:46:33 UTC

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Hmm, we do have an informal seminar going, you could come and talk about some of the more Applied-applied category theory you're doing! (and we can take you for dinner after :D)

2025-02-21 23:41:01 UTC

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Ah, @npub1whr…qc2t and I missed you last spring, but we should meet when you're back in Edinburgh again!

2025-02-03 18:29:02 UTC

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yep! there's basically a major hack that I'm using in the implementation of jermaine, and I'm trying to find a more principled solution

2025-02-03 17:58:26 UTC

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Hmmm, yes, that would work but would introduce some green slime! Ideally I'd like it to be a no-op

2025-02-03 17:40:02 UTC

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aha, this works, but it runs into a problem when i try to use it for my use-case
https://media.mathstodon.xyz/media_attachments/files/113/941/177/912/511/828/original/e69ac12143cd9d55.png

2025-02-03 15:57:49 UTC

is there a nice inductive definition of "lists indexed by an upper-bound on their length"?

2025-01-25 19:11:10 UTC

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:D are you making progress?

2024-12-07 22:13:56 UTC

The core syntax is starting to shape up.
Sums are dual to products, tensor is dual to par.
https://media.mathstodon.xyz/media_attachments/files/113/613/840/869/806/114/original/90b96bd6c10c28e7.png

2024-11-06 19:08:20 UTC

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it's fine calling them garbage so long as you're not relying on their votes. But then you need to make up the difference by getting the votes from somewhere else. And the dems, every time, simply assume that those other votes will materialize from people falling in line to avoid the bigger evil from being elected

2024-09-19 18:38:09 UTC

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that's *very* interesting. It would certainly simplify a lot of the implementation details, I suppose. But how does this view of patterns connect to ie the work of @npub1jzt…hqa3 on patterns and computational duality?

2024-09-19 10:49:00 UTC

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I did not see that paper, what does it mean to put a pattern in a context?