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20 Agentic AI Terms Every Developer Should Know (Explained Simply), by (not on Mastodon or Bluesky):
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20 Agentic AI Terms Every Developer Should Know (Explained Simply), by (not on Mastodon or Bluesky):
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A very interesting paper concerning the terminology of exotic plants in #France edited by G.Fried and Collegues! This is a very usefull text for all real fieldecologist and field botanist working in continental France -and for this its written in French. Could also be interesting for neighbouring regions in Germany and Switzerland! For collegues not reading French, #Deepl provides very good translations!
#archéophytes #néophytes #France #alienplants #botany #terminology
https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/fr/periodiques/naturae/2024/4? -
The name for the algebraic structure consisting of a set \(A\) equipped with a binary operation \(f\colon A^2\to A\) which is not assumed to be commutative, associative, etc. has an interesting history. As far as I can tell, this sort of algebra was originally known as a "groupoid", and you can find recent literature using the term in that way. However, Nicolas Bourbaki called a set with a single binary operation a "magma" in his Éléments de mathématique and this name came to be used when there might be confusion with the newer topological use of "groupoid" to mean a category whose morphisms are all invertible. A third contender is "binar". I don't know the history of this one but it seems reasonable to me.
I prefer "magma" myself. I don't know what a "lava" or a "volcano" should be nor have I had the audacity to try to name something like this in the literature. One reason I prefer "magma" is that I can talk about a set \(A\) equipped with a single \(n\)-ary operation \(f\colon A^n\to A\) as an "\(n\)-ary magma" (or just "\(n\)-magma" or even "magma").