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Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/2228357/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/2228357/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Optimizing machine learning for network inference through comparative analysis of model performance in synthetic and real-world networks <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Clustering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Clustering</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ComputationalBiologyAndBioinformatics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputationalBiologyAndBioinformatics</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ComputationalComplexity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputationalComplexity</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Data</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/engineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>engineering</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/HumanitiesAndSocialSciences" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanitiesAndSocialSciences</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/LogisticRegression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LogisticRegression</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/MachineLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MachineLearning</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ModelSelection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ModelSelection</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Modularity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Modularity</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/multidisciplinary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>multidisciplinary</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/NetworkInference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NetworkInference</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/NetworkScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NetworkScience</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/RandomForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RandomForest</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ScaleFreeNetworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScaleFreeNetworks</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>We are now concerned with more radical possibilities. </p><p>A paradigmatic example is topology. </p><p>In modern “analytic topology”, a “space” is defined to be a set of points equipped with a collection of subsets called open, <br>which describe how the points vary continuously into each other.<br> (Most analytic topologists, being unaware of synthetic topology, would call their subject simply “topology.”) </p><p>By contrast, in synthetic topology we postulate instead an axiomatic theory, on the same ontological level as ZFC, <br>whose basic objects are spaces rather than sets.</p><p>Of course, by saying that the basic objects “are” spaces we do not mean that they are sets equipped with open subsets. </p><p>Instead we mean that “space” is an undefined word, <br>and the rules of the theory cause these “spaces” to behave more or less like we expect spaces to behave. </p><p>In particular, synthetic spaces have open subsets (or, more accurately, open subspaces), <br>but they are not defined by specifying a set together with a collection of open subsets.</p><p>It turns out that synthetic topology, like synthetic set theory (ZFC), is rich enough to encode all of mathematics. </p><p>There is one trivial sense in which this is true: <br>among all analytic spaces we find the subclass of indiscrete ones, <br>in which the only open subsets are the empty set and the whole space. </p><p>A notion of “indiscrete space” can also be defined in synthetic topology, <br>and the collection of such spaces forms a universe of ETCS-like sets <br>(we’ll come back to these in later installments). </p><p>Thus we could use them to encode mathematics, entirely ignoring the rest of the synthetic theory of spaces. <br>(The same could be said about the discrete spaces, <br>in which every subset is open; <br>but these are harder (though not impossible) to define and work with synthetically. </p><p>The relation between the discrete and indiscrete spaces, <br>and how they sit inside the synthetic theory of spaces, <br>is central to the synthetic theory of cohesion, <br>which I believe David is going to mention in his chapter about the philosophy of geometry.)</p><p>However, a less boring approach is to construct the objects of mathematics directly as spaces. </p><p>How does this work? <br>It turns out that the basic constructions on sets that we use to build (say) the set of real numbers have close analogues that act on spaces. </p><p>Thus, in synthetic topology we can use these constructions to build the space of real numbers directly. </p><p>If our system of synthetic topology is set up well, <br>then the resulting space will behave like the analytic space of real numbers<br> (the one that is defined by first constructing the mere set of real numbers and then equipping it with the unions of open intervals as its topology).</p><p>The next question is, <br>why would we want to do mathematics this way? </p><p>There are a lot of reasons, <br>but right now I believe they can be classified into three sorts: <br>modularity, <br>philosophy, and <br>pragmatism. </p><p>(If you can think of other reasons that I’m forgetting, please mention them in the comments!)</p><p>By “<a href="https://c.im/tags/modularity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>modularity</span></a>” I mean the same thing as does a programmer: </p><p>even if we believe that spaces are ultimately built analytically out of sets, <br>it is often useful to isolate their fundamental properties and work with those abstractly. </p><p>One advantage of this is <a href="https://c.im/tags/generality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>generality</span></a>. <br>For instance, any theorem proven in Euclid’s “neutral geometry” <br>(i.e. without using the parallel postulate) <br>is true not only in the model of ordered pairs of real numbers, <br>but also in the various non-Euclidean geometries. </p><p>Similarly, a theorem proven in synthetic topology may be true not only about ordinary topological spaces, <br>but also about other variant theories such as topological sheaves, smooth spaces, etc. </p><p>As always in mathematics, if we state only the assumptions we need, our theorems become more general.</p><p> <a href="https://c.im/tags/analytic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>analytic</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/synthetic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>synthetic</span></a></p>
Glyn Moody<p>Why Generative AI’s Lack Of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Modularity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Modularity</span></a> Means It Can’t Be Meaningfully Open, Is Unreliable, And Is A Technological Dead End - <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/2024/12/03/why-generative-ais-lack-of-modularity-means-it-cant-be-meaningfully-open-is-unreliable-and-is-a-technological-dead-end/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">techdirt.com/2024/12/03/why-ge</span><span class="invisible">nerative-ais-lack-of-modularity-means-it-cant-be-meaningfully-open-is-unreliable-and-is-a-technological-dead-end/</span></a> don't miss the first (AI-generated) comment, which underlines the strengths and weakness of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/genAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genAI</span></a> technology. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a></p>
Glyn Moody<p>Why Generative AI’s Lack Of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Modularity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Modularity</span></a> Means It Can’t Be Meaningfully Open, Is Unreliable, And Is A Technological Dead End - <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/2024/12/03/why-generative-ais-lack-of-modularity-means-it-cant-be-meaningfully-open-is-unreliable-and-is-a-technological-dead-end/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">techdirt.com/2024/12/03/why-ge</span><span class="invisible">nerative-ais-lack-of-modularity-means-it-cant-be-meaningfully-open-is-unreliable-and-is-a-technological-dead-end/</span></a> don't miss the first (AI generated) comment, which underlines the strengths and weakness of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/genAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genAI</span></a> technology.. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a></p>
🧿🪬🍄🌈🎮💻🚲🥓🎃💀🏴🛻🇺🇸<p>It's 2024; <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JavaScript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JavaScript</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>libraries</span></a> should be shipping <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ESModules" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ESModules</span></a> *only*</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/webDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>webDev</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/frontend" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>frontend</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/js" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>js</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/modules" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>modules</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/esm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>esm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/commonjs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>commonjs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/modularity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>modularity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nodejs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nodejs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/deno" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deno</span></a></p>