Listening to and speaking a tiny bit of French is fun. I was able to say "can we pay now?" (because I totally forgot the idiomatic word for "check" in "check please" --- is it really "l'addition"? This is what Aviv's phrasebook later said) and understand the response of (loosely translating) our waitress saying "oh no, it is free! haha, I am le kidding!". Really all I did was hear some form of "gratuit" and some form of "blaguer" and assume the rest of the utterance fell into place based on context.
Listening to and speaking a tiny bit of French is fun. I was able to say "can we pay now?" (because I totally forgot the idiomatic word for "check" in "check please" --- is it really "l'addition"? This is what Aviv's phrasebook later said) and understand the response of (loosely translating) our waitress saying "oh no, it is free! haha, I am le kidding!". Really all I did was hear some form of "gratuit" and some form of "blaguer" and assume the rest of the utterance fell into place based on context.
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A nice natural example of a bicategory (non-strict 2-category) I didn't know about before: Objects are sets. Morphisms from A to B are "state…
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Read a bit about alexandrov topologies and chu spaces and stuff. Is there a good completion of the analogy preorder (i.e. alexandrov topology) :…
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Interesting paper from Noam and Paul-André. The technical condition about cartesian morphisms in the definition of a fibration of categories…
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