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what is the substance of this complaint?

if i pull the API for django or react or ...anything else, how much should i be expected to understand without any prior exposure? how is "domain-specific gibberish" any different? you make up words to represent groups of other words in order to capture concepts. it's literally just how language works.

let me translate for you:

proof assistant: program that checks your work (writing a proof) and helps you find new proofs.

synthetic: math where the axioms "represent" the objects instead of the other way around (they're "synthesized" from the objects)

1-category: a collection with objects and functions between them

2-category: a collection with objects, functions between them, and functions between those functions (called homotopies)

k-category: you get the idea

∞-category: the limit as k -> ∞

second-order abstract syntax which is great for lambda extraction: syntax specifically suited for this kind of stuff

and you know what? even though i am not a category theorist i was able to figure this out. you know how? i quickly skimmed the "docs" https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/synthetic+%28infinity%2C1%29-c...



I'm not a mathematician, but I feel the "syntethic"/"analythic" distinction in mathematics is an interesting and useful concept.

"In modern mathematics, an analytic theory is one whose basic objects are defined in some other theory, whereas a synthetic theory is one whose basic objects are undefined terms given meaning by rules and axioms"—Michael Shulman

In programming terms, I guess "synthetic" mathematics feels a bit like programming to an abstract interface.

https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/synthetic+mathematics

In the first part of this video Cédric Villani gives (in French) a nice explanation of the distinction: https://youtu.be/xzVk56EKBUI?t=258

Edit: an English explanation, also by Villani: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIrLXbwyYXQ


I didn't read it as a complaint, more of a humorous observation. Either way, there's no need to get aggressive onto someone that hasn't figured it out yet.




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