Dirty computational mathematics secret: "monads" in functional programming are basically a kind of functor known as strong monads... 1/x
encounter in any real substance until they are well into a PhD program. Most math PhDs don't encounter Category Theory at at all... 5/x
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in their careers, largely because its utility for addressing open problems is minimal, and the complexity makes it not worthwhile. 6/x
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So when some 23 year old techbro starts jargoning you about "monads", chances are he has no effing idea what he's talking about at all. 7/7
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