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• Categories for AI 1; Why Category Theory?

Categories for AI 1; Why Category Theory?

Motivated by the recent emergence of category theory in machine learning, we teach a course on its philosophy, applications and outlook from the perspective of machine learning!

• Sign up for the course at: https://cats.for.ai/

In this first seminar, you will:

• Get a sense of the philosophy and motivation behind Category Theory
• Learn about the recent wave of its applications emerging throughout the sciences
• Understand how this formal mathematical language rigorously adheres to the concept of modularity
• Dispel with the fallacy that CT is not relevant to practical disciplines such as programming or engineering
• Get a sense of how CT can help us design and scale our deep learning systems