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Owen Lynch (May 26 2022 at 02:37):From the introduction of my thesis:
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Evan Patterson (May 26 2022 at 04:02):Using an olog to summarize ideas in the introduction: I like it!
Owen Lynch (May 26 2022 at 16:34):Related: a dependency graph of sections:
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John Baez (May 26 2022 at 20:56):Nice.
I'm glad it's a DAG. :upside_down:
James Deikun (May 26 2022 at 21:07):Usually in practice I find they are not -- I have to read the introduction so I can understand the rest of the chapters, then read the rest of the chapters so I can understand the introduction. :counterclockwise:
Ellis D. Cooper (Jul 24 2022 at 17:21):Page X of Gabriel and Zisman has a "leitfaden" which is NOT a DAG.
David Michael Roberts (Jul 24 2022 at 23:54):The question is, does it have non-trivial monodromy?
John Baez (Jul 25 2022 at 16:35):Each time you go around, your understanding gets multiplied by a matrix. Writing your understanding as a linear combination of eigenvectors, the components with eigenvalues with decay each time you reread the book - these are the misunderstandings - while those with grow.