timelets

1 --> T1  --> T2
        \     /\
         \    |
          \   |
          _\| ]
             P

In the beginning...

e: 1 -> T1 is an equalizer
f: T1 -> T2
g: T1 -> P
h: P -> T2

f = h g

T1 is a narrative
T2 is an enablement

Smuggling in the Kan extension for dummies.

Под функцией понимается поступок действующего лица, определенный с точки зрения его значимости для хода действия.

I.Постоянными, устойчивыми элементами сказки служат функции действующих лиц, независимо от того, кем и как
они выполняются. Они образуют основные составные части сказки.
II. Число функций , известных волшебнойсказке, — о г р а н и ч е н о .
III.Последовательность функций всегда одинакова.
IV.Все волшебные сказки однотипны по своему строению.

-- Пропп, Морфология Сказки, 1928.
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Most popular fairy tales have very little magic in them. They are way too short to use all the functions and their sequences identified by Propp.
In any case, where it does take place information sharing or advice involves providing a known solution to a known problem.

Пока ковырялся в своих примерах для книжки, обнаружил фундаментальную разницу между нарративами успеха в России и Америке.

В России: герой умер, но дело его живет. (нарратив мифа)
В Америке: герой жив, и дело его живет. (нарратив сказки)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTVSMJhDoOQ

Technology toolkit re-use is an extension problem. E.g. Julius Cesar's guide for building army camps using common agricultural approaches of the time. The use of steam engine manufacturing toolkit for railroads, steam ships, etc.

Technology choice or development is a lifting problem. E.g. discovery/choice of the right data set for a desired ML application (see IBM's recent failure vs TikTok's success).

In the LRRH narrative we see the failure of an existing solution to the extension problem, i.e. the werwolf destroys the girl's ability to deliver the medicine to her grandma.

“ ...to learn is to form an internal model of the external world.”

--- Stanislas Dehaene. “How We Learn.”

Note that he either externalizes confirmation of the model or considers its confirmation to be a part of formation. (upd. via trial and error).

cf: Lawvere's rough sketch of mathematical thinking where confirmation can be made explicit.

When we apply Hegel's (co-)concepts of determination and constitution to the Little Red Riding Hood narrative we can see that the best of LRRH is brought out (revealed) by the worst in Wolf. I also wonder how Heidegger's concept of technology as a revealer plays out in this context.

I've just realized that a typical market share chart is a representation of an exponential object.

User x Maker -> Share

Красная Шапочка — инструмент для понимания волка-оборотня.

upd. connect to Uber.

Similar to the way in which Bergson contrasts time and duration, intellect and intuition, Péguy differentiates between history and tradition, science and experience. To illustrate this difference, for example, in Clio history is compared to a long railway line that runs along the coast and that allows one to stop at any station one wishes. In this metaphor tradition—collective memory—appears as the coast, with its marshes, people, fishes, estuaries of rivers and streams, as life on land and life in the sea.
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--- Heoning Schmidgen. Bruno Latour in Pieces, 2014.

In contrast with schoolbook history that treats its subject as tourism, he thinks about it as travel, similar to the original approach introduced by Herodotus more than two thousand years ago.

Also see Lawvere, Categories of Space and Quantity, 1992, wrt the example of a sojourn, as a variable intensive quantity. Peguy's history vs a schoolbook one would have a completely different intensive quantity pattern, while the terminal object in the underlying extensive category, i.e. the total would be the same.