[FRIAM] stygmergy, CA's, and [biological] development

[Marcus Daniels]

Fine, but dual of a monad has a sort of trivial meaning; like a nicer “run” function.   Whereas a continuous relaxation of a discrete optimization problem has semantics which are useful for accelerating an optimization.
From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Jon Zingale
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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] stygmergy, CA's, and [biological] development

Here, I am calculating 1 and 2 dimensional cellular automata as comonadic structures (dual to monadic structures*). Category theory put directly into practice. In particular, it took me some thought to build the notion of fiber and connection between fibers to generalize comonadically to 2D arrays.

* Yes, dual in a technical sense.
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