Fabrice Tshimanga<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sigmoid.social/@D3Reo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>D3Reo</span></a></span> has been trying to make me study <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/categorytheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>categorytheory</span></a> for a while now.<br>I use Python for machine learning in <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/neuro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neuro</span></a>, the functional language I like studying is Julia, so I'm still struggling to understand if and how much category theory may benefit my code and "software engineering".</p><p>But I've come back to an old name in my reading list, that of mathematical biologist Robert Rosen, whose theory of life used categories to characterize the organization of chemical processes sustaining life.</p><p>I am reading some bits of "Category theory for the sciences" by Spivak, but I would love to read a realist expert telling me I would hardly make use of any of that in what I typically work on and likely will work on, as a coder.</p><p><a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/FunctionalProgramming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FunctionalProgramming</span></a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/julialang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>julialang</span></a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/MathematicalBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MathematicalBiology</span></a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/autopoiesis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autopoiesis</span></a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/hypercycle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hypercycle</span></a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/anticipatorysystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anticipatorysystems</span></a></p>