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  1. Dear Steering Committee,

    I’d like to ask for a personal web space. I’m especially hoping to use it for organizing notes on linear lambda calculus, and its connections to the theory of graphs on surfaces that I’ve been trying to understand. (You might have noticed bits and pieces of these interests floating into the nLab, like at reflexive object and at combinatorial map, but I’d like to try to flesh out a more coherent picture in hyperlinked form.) I might also use the personal web to record some notes from my work with Paul-André Melliès on categorical semantics of type refinement systems.

    thank you,

    Noam

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    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeJul 28th 2016
    • (edited Jul 28th 2016)

    I am in favor of you getting a personal web.

    But allow me to suggest that “fleshing out a more coherent picture in hyperlinked form” sounds like just the kind of material that deserves to be on the main nnLab. So I am hoping that you having a personal web will not draw away good stuff from the nnLab.

    For the record I’ll also say that we have bad experience with creating personal webs: if you look at the list of all subwebs here you notice that most people who got personal webs from us abandoned them immediately, or soon after. That’s a shame.

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    • CommentAuthorMike Shulman
    • CommentTimeJul 28th 2016

    @Urs: It’s a tricky balance. I understand the desire to have a private space where I can write things that I’m less confident are correct, without them being part of the main nLab that the whole world is looking at. But once things are written in a private space, there’s an inertia that tends to prevent them from getting incorporated into the main nLab, even once one is relatively confident they are correct. E.g. a lot of my 2-categorical logic (michaelshulman) ought now to be in the main nLab, but I’ve never had the time or energy to move it. I don’t know if there is a good solution.

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    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeJul 28th 2016
    • (edited Jul 28th 2016)

    Mike, by the way: as long as Adeel remains unresponsive, and I keep not remembering the system password, you are probably the only one prepared to actually create a personal web for Noam.

  5. Urs, as Mike said, I think it would be useful to have a place where I could work out more speculative material, and also where I wouldn’t have to worry as much about establishing enough context for the material to fit in with the rest of the nLab. But I do hope that some of the material could make it’s way back onto the nLab once it is sufficiently well-understood.

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    • CommentAuthorMike Shulman
    • CommentTimeJul 31st 2016
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    • CommentAuthorTobias Fritz
    • CommentTimeNov 8th 2016
    I'd like to be considered for getting a personal lab as well. The intended use is for collaborative research on categorical probability theory and information theory. I would want to share it with (currently) one other person, with the intent of replacing a number of disconnected LaTeX files by a more interconnected and interactive wiki. While much of our material may consist of throwing around ideas that end up not working out, we do plan to export the sensible parts to the main nLab once they are in a definite shape.

    I also understand Urs's concern about abandoned sublabs, and hope that the previous paragraph addresses that adequately.
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    • CommentAuthorDavid_Corfield
    • CommentTimeNov 8th 2016

    Not too much from Noam yet, #6. Perhaps great things are in the pipeline.

  9. Not too much from Noam yet, #6.

    *slightly embarrassed emoji*

    Perhaps great things are in the pipeline.

    No doubt just around the corner!

    So my attention kind of drifted after I made this request and I took a little break from the nlab, but it’s nice to know that this space is there, and I hope to do something with it in the not-too-distant future. I’ve actually gotten back into editing on the main nlab recently, and was planning to post a few pointers here on the nforum soon.

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    • CommentAuthorTobias Fritz
    • CommentTimeNov 10th 2016
    Apologies, I hadn't meant to stir up a discussion on the status of Noam's sublab!

    Any feedback on #7 would be great.
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    • CommentAuthorDavidRoberts
    • CommentTimeNov 10th 2016

    I would be fine with it.

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