Ep. 133 - Pointless Topology by The Local Maximum published on 2020-08-24T00:35:06Z What is topology, and could there be an application in AI? Max and Aaron use common language to talk about a field of mathematics known as topology, and an interesting subfield of that known as pointless topology. They end with knot theory and meticulous predictions. Comment by solutions_by_the_radical The term "continuous model", when treated as antithetical to "discrete model", as you're using it, is commonly conflated, misused, and abused by nontopologists discussing topology or analysis. Instead of "continuous space", it would be more reasonable to say "connected space", and any function from a discrete topological space into any other topological space is continuous, and there are infinite, non-discrete topological spaces for which the only continuous functions are the constants (such topological spaces are called rigid spaces). 2022-05-09T03:31:18Z Comment by solutions_by_the_radical If you're interested, I'll be glad to discuss topology and is applications on your podcast. 2022-05-08T18:36:20Z