A Category Theory-Inspired BBN

Topos Institute

Tue Mar 11 2025

You can find a link to the full interview on Eric’s blog below:

In putting together this piece, Brendan and I had over three hours of messy, wide-ranging conversations and interviews. We've distilled them into this final, more readable, interview format.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://topos.institute/blog/2025-03-11-category-theory-inspired-bbn/

Owen Lynch

Tue Mar 11 2025

Reading this drove me crazy because it did not say within the first couple paragraphs what a BBN was.

Paul Wang

Fri Mar 14 2025

So, did you manage to figure out what a BBN was?
Apparently, it has to do with “the ARPAnet contractor Bolt, Beranek & Newman Inc.”