From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/3929 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Baez Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: unital weak functor? Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:20:36 -0700 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241019610 10951 80.91.229.2 (29 Apr 2009 15:40:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:40:10 +0000 (UTC) To: categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: rrosebru@mta.ca Fri Sep 21 14:21:16 2007 -0300 Return-path: Envelope-to: categories-list@mta.ca Delivery-date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:21:16 -0300 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1IYm6J-00011D-Lj for categories-list@mta.ca; Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:15:35 -0300 Content-Disposition: inline Original-Sender: cat-dist@mta.ca Precedence: bulk X-Keywords: X-UID: 53 Original-Lines: 22 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:3929 Archived-At: On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 07:03:07AM +1000, Stephen Lack wrote: > These are often called normal lax functors > (or normal morphisms of bicategories). I suggested "normalized", but "normal" is clearly better: you normalize something to make it normal. On a wholly different note - I hope people take a look at the new videos by the Catsters. They're using YouTube in an interesting new way: to explain monads, adjunctions and the like. For more info: http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2007/09/the_catsters_latest_hit_adjunc.html Best, jb