Story: Portal Abstractions with Sam Ritchie
CoRecursive: Coding Stories
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Adding Things and Parentheses Wherever You Want
The idea of adding things and parentheses wherever you want also seems kind of innocuous. But it actually exists in this field of abstract algebra. What happened here is, sam had this system where to calculate analytics, ecalculation had to implement a certain inner face,. And then the system could run it in both worlds. The inner face had an odd method, which meant it was a semi group. This sub field of math with people talking about seemingly obscure constructs, could suddenly enable him to answer interesting questions on Twitter.
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