Monoidal categories and monoidal functors - VideoChat

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Asad Saeeduddin

What are monoidal categories, "lax monoidal functors" between them, and why does it matter?

Examples of concepts you might be familiar with that can be explained in terms of monoidal categories and functors:

  • Applicative
  • Alternative
  • Filterable
  • Alignable
  • Selective
  • Arrow
Sridhar Ratnakumar

@Asad Saeeduddin Are you proposing a demo topic for next video chat?

Sridhar Ratnakumar

I'm familiar with Filterable. I think I saw Alignable somewhere (have to look up). Don't know much about the last two.

Sridhar Ratnakumar

But ... the idea of 'connecting' concepts is very interesting.

Examples of concepts you might be familiar with that can be explained in terms of monoidal categories and functors:

I guess that's one step towards understanding why CT matters.

Hazem

".. and why does it matter?"

+1 specifically for this

TheMatten

@Asad Saeeduddin what day+time would work for you?

Hazem

We do not record our video chat meetings so far.

If I remember correctly, Avi suggested that if it's a presentation and the presenter wishes to have it recorded, they can notify everyone ahead of recording. I think that's a good idea.

Hazem

(deleted) Zulip duplicated my reply for some reason

Georgi Lyubenov // googleson78

the "default" recording setup for jitsi is kind of cumbersome - https://github.com/jitsi/jibri
not sure if there is something easier to set up, apart from just using an external program (e.g. obs) from the POV of someone

Jitsi BRoadcasting Infrastructure. Contribute to jitsi/jibri development by creating an account on GitHub.
Hazem

@TheMatten maybe we can have it during the general weekly video chat if everyone interested is available

Sandy Maguire

i don't love casually hanging out on big video calls

Sandy Maguire

but i'd be very interested in the talks

Asad Saeeduddin

@TheMatten Some time next weekend after 9 AM EST works for me