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   • CommentAuthorHarry Gindi
   • CommentTimeAug 4th 2017
   • (edited Aug 4th 2017)
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   Author: Harry Gindi
   Format: MarkdownItexThere's a little discussion on the top of the page for weighted colimit arguing that the weighted colimit and weighted limit pages are redundant. I just wanted to register my disagreement. The notion of a weighted colimit is conceptually much much more intuitive and makes the analogy with weighted averages extremely clear, since the tensoring over Set is pretty much identical to tensoring over cardinals, which behave exactly like weighting coefficients.

   There’s a little discussion on the top of the page for weighted colimit arguing that the weighted colimit and weighted limit pages are redundant. I just wanted to register my disagreement. The notion of a weighted colimit is conceptually much much more intuitive and makes the analogy with weighted averages extremely clear, since the tensoring over Set is pretty much identical to tensoring over cardinals, which behave exactly like weighting coefficients.