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		xiaodai on Sept 28, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Applied Category Theory Course Surely applied category theory is an oxymoron

epgui on Sept 28, 2023 | [–]

The attitude that a serious academic subject has no practical application is pretty anti-intellectual: it's a good heuristic to say that it's probably wrong.

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