https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2210.06279/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34395656urn:hackerpapers:mention:2210.06279:34395656Mon, 16 Jan 2023 01:22:26 GMT<p>There has been some confusion in the discussion here about whether the work https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.06279 is actually about category theory. To clarify the confusion, here is a snippet from the abstract. &gt; The moment problem in probability theory asks for criteria for when there exists a unique measure with a given tuple of moments. We study a variant of this problem for random objects in a category, where a moment is given by the average number of epimorphisms to a fixed object. So the work is about category theory. The confusion comes in because the Quanta article focuses on what is…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2210.06279/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>math.PR