TIL: Women's soccer (football)

The average player salary in France’s top league was $49,782, compared with $43,730 in Germany, $35,355 in England and $27,054 in the American NWSL. The maximum salary this year in the NWSL is $46,200, while Lyon reportedly pays several players in the six figures.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-close-is-the-rest-of-the-world-to-catching-the-u-s/

Tennis seems to be the only pro sport where the pay gap is less than an order or two of magnitude.

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Приснилось, что к нам во двор пришел соседский рыжий кот и долго пытался объяснить мне изоморфизмы категории алгебр на примере бизнес моделей. Потом ему надоело, он отошел в кусты, сделал свои дела и исчез сквозь дырку в заборе. A я проснулся с ощущением, что кот неправ, и что производство и услуги не могут быть изоморфны.

Impeach the motherfucker!

Given the latest statement from our so-called-president, I've changed my mind on impeachment. Before, I thought it would be unnecessary. Now, I think impeachment is required to uphold any remaining dignity of the office of the President of the United States.

"It's not an interference, they have information -- I think I'd take it," Trump said. "If I thought there was something wrong, I'd go maybe to the FBI -- if I thought there was something wrong. But when somebody comes up with oppo research, right, they come up with oppo research, 'oh let's call the FBI.' The FBI doesn't have enough agents to take care of it. When you go and talk, honestly, to congressman, they all do it, they always have, and that's the way it is. It's called oppo research."


https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/id-exclusive-interview-trump-listen-foreigners-offered-dirt/story?id=63669304

An alternative to Hitler's thinking on monads

I don't know much about programming but mathematically the concept is quite beautiful. Overall, monoidal categories are a great way to model consistent processes. Kant would love it because it incorporates the notion of unity, which reason seeks to apply to the world.

"Category Theory 10.2: Monoid in the category of endofunctors" (Watch on YouTube)

Kantian meditation

All ignorance is 
      either ignorance 
               of things or 
of the 
        limits of knowledge. 
If my 
      ignorance is 
              accidental and not
                         necessary, 
it must incite me, 
               in the first case, 
to a dogmatical inquiry 
                    regarding 
the objects 
          of which 
                 I am ignorant; 
in the second, 
            to a critical 
                investigation into 
the bounds of all 
               possible knowledge. 

But that my 
       ignorance is 
             absolutely necessary and 
unavoidable, and 
              that it consequently 
absolves from the duty of 
                         all further 
investigation, 
          is a fact which 
                      cannot be made out 
upon empirical grounds —
                    from observation — 
but upon critical grounds 
                     alone, that is, 
by a thoroughgoing investigation 
                  into the primary sources of
cognition. 

It follows that 
             the determination 
                  of the bounds of reason 
can be made only 
              on a priori grounds; 
while the empirical limitation of 
                                 reason, 
which is merely 
              an indeterminate cognition 
of an ignorance that can never 
                  be completely 
                              removed, 
can take place only 
                   a posteriori.

Immanuel Kant. “The Critique of Pure Reason.”