Dirty computational mathematics secret: "monads" in functional programming are basically a kind of functor known as strong monads... 1/x
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in the language of Category Theory. Category Theory is what happens when mathematicians say, "what if we abstract _everything_?" 2/x
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It's so abstract, that many serious mathematicians refer to it as "General Abstract Nonsense." Its roots are in Representation Theory... 3/x
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which itself is an abstraction of Group Theory and Functional Analysis. Both of these are topics that mathematicians generally don't... 4/x
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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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