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Without Why Living Meaningfully in a Technological Age. Philosophical writing influenced by Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Dreyfus, & Flores

Check out B’s work here: without-why.ghost.io

B. Scot Rousse: "Language, Technology, & Care" Topos Institute Colloquium, 20th of March 2025.———This talk explores "care" as a missing dimension in contemporary discussions on technology, using debates a...

Watch the talk: www.youtube.com/live/9iO0nEV...

We’re excited to welcome B. Scot Rousse, a philosopher of technology, to Topos! Drawing on Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, he’ll be joining our work on collective sense-making and AI. He also recently spoke at our colloquium on Language, Technology, and Care.

Towards codified context, durable documentation, and process preservation – Topos Institute Hamidah Oderinwale

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Check out our latest blog post by Hamidah Oderinwale, diving into the future of library reform! She tackles key issues like version control, preserving procedural knowledge, and ensuring reproducibility in research. How can we rethink documenting discovery?

Check out the interview here: buff.ly/3QEHg9a and learn more about our work on our site: buff.ly/3Vt8dPG

We're building CatColab—software for collaborative formal modeling—leveraging Double Categorical Systems Theory (DCST) to co-design explainable, auditable AI systems.

Thank you to Eric Gilliam for profiling Topos in FreakTakes! Brendan discusses our mission of collective modelling, highlights projects like CatColab and safeguarded AI research with ARIA, and announces an exciting operations role at our Oxford office.

Learn more and try it out here! https://buff.ly/41flfUB

🎉 Announcing CatColab 0.2: Wren!

CatColab is a structured model editor for visualizing complex systems with domain-specific logics.

Since October, we've implemented:

- Users & permissions
- Enhanced docs
- New theories (e.g. Discrete exterior calculus)
- and more!

Every Thursday, we organize virtual colloquiums where we invite speakers to share their work. Yesterday, we hosted Andrew Dudzik, a research scientist @GoogleDeepMind, who discussed his research on Tensor Species, a category theory-based approach to designing neural networks.

Learn more and try it out here! https://buff.ly/41flfUB

🎉 Announcing CatColab 0.2: Wren!

CatColab is a structured model editor for visualizing complex systems with domain-specific logics.

Since October, we've implemented:

- Users & permissions
- Enhanced docs
- New theories (e.g. Discrete exterior calculus, causal loop diagrams)
- and more!

If you're looking for a weekend read. Our 2024 Summer RA, C.B. Aberlé, has a post on the Topos site on polynomial universes and natural models.

Topos Institute Our goal is a world where the systems that surround us benefit us all

We have finally combined our two websites into a single website: everything is now at topos.institute , but every link to a page on topos.site should now automatically 301 redirect to the corresponding page on topos.institute. Let us know if you have any problems!