[gradschoolfail]

Thanks for the ref!

Not sure when i’ll get there praying for a serendipitous intersection of cargoculting nonsssociativity and diagram spelunking (aided by your hints, half-remember’d)

Although… i confess to doing the trivial thing of drawing the “cayley graph” of {rock,paper,scissors} and observing that it looks like a loopfree 3-vertex term (1 outgoing)

https://en.wikipedia.com/wiki/Commutative_magma

[082349872349872]

Rock-paper-scissors also gives rise to scenes that are bad for naive sorting (for graphics or CAD), where you have three objects such that any two can be sorted in occlusion order, but not all three.

Can we triage our ikigai such that I (sympathising with my machinery) take all your overly-associative structures and you (communing with the universe?) take all my insufficiently-associative structures?

(there are many in maths: eg topologies, being families of sets, can be represented by a particular magma)

Lagniappe: https://www.georgehart.com/triad.html

[gsf_emergency]

Well ring me when you've a way of categorizing some of the nonrepresentable topologies, I do love any chance to juxtapose those ikigais

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42106477