In Topoi Goldblatt uses category theory to explore the logical foundations of mathematics, while using logic as the motivation for learning category theory. (The alternative approach from algebraic topology is largely ignored.
Sheaves get a brief mention around page 100, but are only used in the last third of the book, while functors and natural transformations are only touched on. It is possible to read the larger part of Topoi without knowing what a topological space is!) Topoi begins with an introduction to category theory and a steady build up to explaining how sets — or a generalisation thereof, what is known as a topos — can be defined without the concept of membership. This is well-motivated, with Goldblatt using analogies to set-theoretical ideas which might have been disdained by a category theory purist. Goldblatt proceeds with more or less independent chapters taking a categorial approach to different facets of mathematical logic: classical logic and semantics, the algebra of subobjects (implication and extensionality), intuitionist logic (Heyting algebras, Kripke semantics, and a five page history of Intuitionism), functors, set concepts and validity, elementary truth, the category of sets, and arithmetic.
The last third covers local truth (Grothendieck topoi, geometric modality, Kripke-Joyal semantics), adjunctions and quantifiers, and logical geometry. Some of this is considerably more difficult — I confess to skipping parts of it — but it remains well-motivated and Goldblatt is willing 'to take an approach that will be more descriptive than rigorous'. Originally published in 1984 but understandably a classic, Topoi has fortunately been reprinted by Dover as a cheap paperback.
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Exactly a year after Apple, the company is once again putting its stake in the ground. In, several Apple executives have laid out the thinking behind the as-yet-unannounced Mac Pro, which is expected to debut in 2019. What’s more interesting than the Mac Pro’s existence, however, is the approach Apple is taking to building it: bringing in actual pro users to see their workflows and figure out how to best accommodate them.
It’s a side of Apple that, publicly anyway, we’ve rarely seen. But, as you might expect from Apple, details on this new Mac Pro are still being kept tightly under wraps.
But there are some tea leaves we can read based on Apple’s previous and current forays into the pro-level Mac market. Going Pro The Mac Pro wasn’t the only product whose existence was revealed by that meeting a year ago: Apple executives also confirmed that souped-up iMacs and the were on their way, and they both arrived in due course last year. But by looking at the decisions Apple made with those machines, we can start to read between the lines about what the eventual Mac Pro might look like. With high-end iMacs and the iMac Pro, for example, we can extrapolate that the Mac Pro won’t just be better hardware in an all-in-one chassis: that slot is already filled by the iMac Pro. (That jibes with the company’s statements that the Mac Pro is intended to be modular and will at least support a separate display.) Apple Apple has said that a future Mac Pro will be modular, unlike the iMac Pro.
Likewise, we can cast our eyes back at the Mac Pros that have come before: the long-running “cheesegrater” tower that Apple sold from 2006 to 2012 and the second-generation “trash can” model that succeeded it in 2013. Apple’s not the type to backtrack much, so we can likely eliminate anything that hews too closely to the overly clever design of the second-generation Mac Pro. (Moreover, Apple can’t have been too thrilled about having one of its products colloquially described as a garbage receptacle.) It is, of course, possible that the company will produce something closer to the popular tower form factor. But that was in turn based on the Power Mac G5, which dated from 2003, and I think it’s safe to say that the company would not be eager to return to a design that will be some 16 years old by the time the new model debuts. It’d be like releasing a new iMac based on the. There may be some broad thematic similarities, but don’t expect them to simply dust off the old design.
A true high-end machine Though I’ve owned a few professional-level Macs over the years, I don’t know that I would consider myself a true “pro” user these days. My main work machine is a 2017 Retina 5K iMac, and while I mainly use it for staples like writing and web browsing, I do occasionally take advantage of its horsepower while editing one of several of the podcasts I produce in Logic Pro. That said, most of even my heaviest usage would likely fall into the “prosumer” category. The 5K iMac has proved more than sufficient for my needs, and the iMac Pro would likely be comical overkill, given how much more power it brings to bear. And yet, it seems likely that the Mac Pro will be even a cut above that.
TechCrunch’s story says the company is focusing on things like video editing, 3D animation, and music production, all notoriously horsepower-intensive tasks. All of which is to say that this can rightfully be expected to be a machine that is incredibly powerful. Way, way above the needs of most users. After all, Apple has to leave some room below it for both the iMac Pro and the 5K iMac to exist. Apple The ability to add parts and upgrade components contributed to the tower Mac Pro’s popularity.
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Extrapolating based on Apple’s current pro-level offerings suggests that we would likely see something built on Intel’s line of Xeon processors, perhaps even the recently announced Xeon Scalable chips. (This is despite the in the next few years—if that does happen, high performance machines like the Mac Pro would likely be the last to make the jump.) Fast RAM, fast SSD storage, and a full array of ports seem like shoo-ins as well. But modularity is still a key element of the new Mac Pro’s story, not only so that Apple makes it easy for pros to continuously upgrade their experience but because it takes some of the pressure off for Apple to itself release regular updates. Perhaps the most frustrating aspect of the previous generation Mac Pro was that Apple let it lie fallow for so many years and that third-party upgrade paths for users were limited.
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Commitment to the Mac Pro doesn’t necessarily mean that Apple binds itself to regular updates of the product—though transparency on that front would be advisable—but it does mean acknowledging that these are machines that customers will use heavily and for a long time to come and planning accordingly.