The Joy of Abstraction: Category Theory, Einstein's Tenacity, and Why Context Changes Everything
Автор: Loni Venn
Загружено: 2025-12-10
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In this episode, I discuss my conversation with a physics PhD about "The Joy of Abstraction" by Eugenia Chang—a book about category theory, which is arguably the most advanced mathematics we know of.
We explore:
Why Einstein wasn't actually bad at math (it was about context windows)
The difference between equality and sameness
How language barriers cost a brilliant physicist a $250k job
What large language models can teach us about human limitations
Why starting at the "top" of mathematics might be better than starting at the bottom
Book discussed: The Joy of Abstraction: An Exploration of Math, Category Theory, and Life by Eugenia Chang (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
Key concepts: Context windows, tenacity, category theory, zooming in and out, characterizing things by their role
This isn't a book review—it's an exploration of where advanced ideas meet real life, told through the lens of a conversation with someone much smarter than me.
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