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1. • CommentRowNumber1.
   • CommentAuthorDavid_Corfield
   • CommentTimeMar 11th 2017
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   Author: David_Corfield
   Format: MarkdownItexI see that from 15 March Dropbox is no longer going to allow a publicly accessible folder. So I was thinking of uploading some files to my personal web here, but when trying to edit the max size of file, realized I don't have the system password. Is there one for each personal web, or a master one?

   I see that from 15 March Dropbox is no longer going to allow a publicly accessible folder. So I was thinking of uploading some files to my personal web here, but when trying to edit the max size of file, realized I don’t have the system password. Is there one for each personal web, or a master one?

2. • CommentRowNumber2.
   • CommentAuthorMike Shulman
   • CommentTimeMar 11th 2017
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   Author: Mike Shulman
   Format: MarkdownItexThere's a master one. I knew it at one point, but I'm not sure whether I still do. A bit of googling suggests that maybe you can still create "public links" to individual files in dropbox folders? <https://www.dropbox.com/help/167>

   There’s a master one. I knew it at one point, but I’m not sure whether I still do.

   A bit of googling suggests that maybe you can still create “public links” to individual files in dropbox folders? https://www.dropbox.com/help/167

3. • CommentRowNumber3.
   • CommentAuthorDavid_Corfield
   • CommentTimeMar 11th 2017
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   Author: David_Corfield
   Format: MarkdownItexI see, thanks. Well if the address of the public link changes to my 'Expressing the Structure' paper, which you kindly cite in your latest paper, I'll let you know.

   I see, thanks. Well if the address of the public link changes to my ’Expressing the Structure’ paper, which you kindly cite in your latest paper, I’ll let you know.

4. • CommentRowNumber4.
   • CommentAuthorMike Shulman
   • CommentTimeMar 11th 2017
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   Author: Mike Shulman
   Format: MarkdownItexIf you want a more stable URL for me to cite, you could make a wikipage for the paper on your personal web that contains a link to wherever the current PDF is.

   If you want a more stable URL for me to cite, you could make a wikipage for the paper on your personal web that contains a link to wherever the current PDF is.

5. • CommentRowNumber5.
   • CommentAuthorDavid_Corfield
   • CommentTimeMar 13th 2017
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   Author: David_Corfield
   Format: MarkdownItexGood idea. So here is such a wikipage link: https://ncatlab.org/davidcorfield/show/Expressing+%27The+Structure+of%27+in+Homotopy+Type+Theory By the way, I posted a comment at the Cafe about your article. A couple of very minor things: >and also more novel synthetic mathematics using of nonclassical structure I'm struggling with the grammar. The reference [102] ... Cambridge, 2015, still not out yet. Hopefully this year.

   Good idea. So here is such a wikipage link: https://ncatlab.org/davidcorfield/show/Expressing+%27The+Structure+of%27+in+Homotopy+Type+Theory

   By the way, I posted a comment at the Cafe about your article.

   A couple of very minor things:

   and also more novel synthetic mathematics using of nonclassical structure I’m struggling with the grammar.

   The reference [102] … Cambridge, 2015, still not out yet. Hopefully this year.

6. • CommentRowNumber6.
   • CommentAuthorUrs
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   Author: Urs
   Format: MarkdownItexDavid, sorry for the slow reaction. I have increased the upload size maximum on your web. Please check if it works now.

   David,

   sorry for the slow reaction. I have increased the upload size maximum on your web. Please check if it works now.

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   • CommentAuthorTobyBartels
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   Author: TobyBartels
   Format: MarkdownItex<https://ncatlab.org/davidcorfield/show/Expressing+%27The+Structure+of%27+in+Homotopy+Type+Theory>

   https://ncatlab.org/davidcorfield/show/Expressing+%27The+Structure+of%27+in+Homotopy+Type+Theory

8. • CommentRowNumber8.
   • CommentAuthorDavid_Corfield
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   Author: David_Corfield
   Format: MarkdownItexGreat thanks, uploads are working now.

   Great thanks, uploads are working now.

9. • CommentRowNumber9.
   • CommentAuthorNikolajK
   • CommentTimeMar 13th 2017
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   Author: NikolajK
   Format: MarkdownItex@David: There's a $:$ before the $\equiv$ on page 6 and later there isn't one. Is that right? In any case, if people don't know how the binding order of all those symbols go, I'd put that whole expression in brackets, $X:T \vdash (F(X)\equiv E(X)):T$ or write it in two lines $F(X)\equiv E(X)$ $X:T \vdash F(X):T$

   @David: There’s a $:$ before the $\equiv$ on page 6 and later there isn’t one. Is that right?

   In any case, if people don’t know how the binding order of all those symbols go, I’d put that whole expression in brackets,

   $X:T \vdash (F(X)\equiv E(X)):T$

   or write it in two lines

   $F(X)\equiv E(X)$

   $X:T \vdash F(X):T$

10. • CommentRowNumber10.
    • CommentAuthorDavid_Corfield
    • CommentTimeMar 13th 2017
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    Author: David_Corfield
    Format: MarkdownItexThanks, Nikolaj. $: \equiv$ is meant to signal a definition, as in the HoTT book, but now I look I see they never seem to use the symbol to the right of a $\vdash$. Is that just for clarity?

    Thanks, Nikolaj.

    $: \equiv$ is meant to signal a definition, as in the HoTT book, but now I look I see they never seem to use the symbol to the right of a $\vdash$. Is that just for clarity?

11. • CommentRowNumber11.
    • CommentAuthorMike Shulman
    • CommentTimeMar 14th 2017
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    Author: Mike Shulman
    Format: MarkdownItexThanks for the fixes David. The HoTT book mostly doesn't use $\vdash$ at all, only in the appendix. But even when being more formal, I don't think I would normally use the "being defined to equal" symbol $:\equiv$ in that way, since it's not a *judgment*. Unless we're working in a type theory that has an internal notion of "definition" (which of course real-world systems like Coq and Agda do, but mathematical type theories don't usually), defining something to equal something else is a meta-theoretic shorthand rather than part of the formal system. I suppose one could say that it takes place in a context, though.

    Thanks for the fixes David.

    The HoTT book mostly doesn’t use $\vdash$ at all, only in the appendix. But even when being more formal, I don’t think I would normally use the “being defined to equal” symbol $:\equiv$ in that way, since it’s not a judgment. Unless we’re working in a type theory that has an internal notion of “definition” (which of course real-world systems like Coq and Agda do, but mathematical type theories don’t usually), defining something to equal something else is a meta-theoretic shorthand rather than part of the formal system. I suppose one could say that it takes place in a context, though.

12. • CommentRowNumber12.
    • CommentAuthorDavid_Corfield
    • CommentTimeMar 14th 2017
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    Author: David_Corfield
    Format: MarkdownItexThe final 'it' refers to defining something to equal something else? How then would you write such a definition if it takes place in a context? Perhaps verbally, e.g., >Relative to context $\Gamma$, we define $F(x,y,z) :\equiv ...$, where $x, y, z$ all appear as free variable in $\Gamma$.

    The final ’it’ refers to defining something to equal something else? How then would you write such a definition if it takes place in a context? Perhaps verbally, e.g.,

    Relative to context $\Gamma$, we define $F(x,y,z) :\equiv ...$,

    where $x, y, z$ all appear as free variable in $\Gamma$.

13. • CommentRowNumber13.
    • CommentAuthorMike Shulman
    • CommentTimeMar 14th 2017
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    Author: Mike Shulman
    Format: MarkdownItexIn ordinary mathematics, which the book strives to emulate, we don't usually feel the need to mention contexts at all. If there is something currently in the context, then when we define something, it's obviously relative to that, and we might or might not notate it depending on whether the dependence matters. Ordinary mathematics also blurs the line between hypothetical judgments $x:A \vdash f_x:B$ and functions $\cdot \vdash f:A\to B$, so any time we define something in a context we might as well be just defining a function in the empty context.

    In ordinary mathematics, which the book strives to emulate, we don’t usually feel the need to mention contexts at all. If there is something currently in the context, then when we define something, it’s obviously relative to that, and we might or might not notate it depending on whether the dependence matters. Ordinary mathematics also blurs the line between hypothetical judgments $x:A \vdash f_x:B$ and functions $\cdot \vdash f:A\to B$, so any time we define something in a context we might as well be just defining a function in the empty context.

14. • CommentRowNumber14.
    • CommentAuthorDavid_Corfield
    • CommentTimeMar 14th 2017
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    Author: David_Corfield
    Format: MarkdownItexHmm, so $\vdash the: \prod_{z: (\sum_{X: Type} isContr(X))} (\pi_1(z))$? And $the \equiv \pi_1(\pi_2)$.

    Hmm, so $\vdash the: \prod_{z: (\sum_{X: Type} isContr(X))} (\pi_1(z))$? And $the \equiv \pi_1(\pi_2)$.

15. • CommentRowNumber15.
    • CommentAuthorMike Shulman
    • CommentTimeMar 14th 2017
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    Author: Mike Shulman
    Format: MarkdownItexI suppose.

    I suppose.