The finalists have been announced ina number of categories. Of special interest, of course, are these two categories:
Best Science Blog
Pharyngula
John Hawks Anthropology Weblog
RealClimate
Deltoid
Good Math, Bad Math
Mixing Memory
The Panda's Thumb
In the Pipeline
Bad Astronomy Blog
SciGuy
Best Medical/Health Issues Blog
Brainhell
Flea
Stayin' Alive
Short Gut News
Respectful Insolence
The Cheerful Oncologist
A Life Less Convenient
Doc In the Machine
The Cancer Blog
The Amazing Adventures of Diet Girl
Hey, six of my SciBlings are there! Voting will open in a couple of days. See the entire list of all categories here.
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Let's talk a bit about functors. Functors are fun!
What's a functor? I already gave the short definition: a structure-preserving mapping between categories. Let's be a bit more formal. What does the structure-preserving property mean?
By now, we've seen the simple algebraic monoid, which is essentially an
A more than unusually obscure headline perhaps. Here's the link. I noticed, because my watchlist contained a pile of changes like:
The thing that I think is most interesting about category theory is that what it's really fundamentally about is structure. The abstractions of category theory let you talk about structures in an elegant way; and category diagrams let you illustrate structures in a simple visual way.
Whoa! John Hawks made it, awesome!
I didn't make Best New Blog, but really, it wasn't even a longshot.
Oh well - there're always the Koufaxes.
Considering how few of the blogs I read are on there, I'm not impressed. I don't know how they made their lists this year, but they seem to get worse every year.
Well, this is just the warm-up for the real deal - the Koufax Awards next month.