98: Category Theory and the Mathematical Foundation of the Technologies We Use with Eric Daimler of Conexus

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

• Eric’s background and career journey (3:30)
• Presenting to people without knowledge of AI (11:04)
• Why math was chosen over AI (19:03)
• From compilers to databases (25:42)
• The contribution of category theory (30:09)
• The Connexus customer experience (37:45)
• The primary user of Connexus (46:33)
• Interacting with 300,000 databases (51:07)
• When Connexus begins to add value (54:02)
• The best way to learn this mathematical approach (55:46)

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