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    1. Emily G‏Verified account @EmilyGorcenski 8 Jun 2016
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      This isn't just "oh, CS and math are interrelated." No, it's about attempting to shoehorn mathematical ideas into coding practice.

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    2. Emily G‏Verified account @EmilyGorcenski 8 Jun 2016
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      This happened with the OO community and it's happening in FP, too. The focus is generally on abstraction of ideas.

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    3. Emily G‏Verified account @EmilyGorcenski 8 Jun 2016
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      Abstraction is really powerful and can be a great tool. Abstraction lets us solve more general problems instead of specific ones.

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    4. Emily G‏Verified account @EmilyGorcenski 8 Jun 2016
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      And when you first learn advanced math, abstraction becomes a powerful notion. Working in ℂ instead of ℝ, working in arbitrary vector spaces

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    5. Emily G‏Verified account @EmilyGorcenski 8 Jun 2016
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      The Hahn-Banach Theorem. The Sylow Theorems. Many, many others. These are some of the most important results in their respective fields.

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    6. Emily G‏Verified account @EmilyGorcenski 8 Jun 2016
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      Hahn-Banach in particular lets us construct linear functionals on a vector subspace from practically nothing! This is huge!

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    7. Emily G‏Verified account @EmilyGorcenski 8 Jun 2016
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      But I digress. The point is, important results in math often come from taking a powerful idea and pulling it back onto specific constructs.

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    8. Emily G‏Verified account @EmilyGorcenski 8 Jun 2016
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      Math is not always about "abstract abstract abstract". What that leads to is Category Theory. And oh boy, does FP love it some Cat. Theory.

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    9. Emily G‏Verified account @EmilyGorcenski 8 Jun 2016
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      But Category Theory is like actually really hard to understand and is so general that it's hard to wrangle it into constructive results.

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    10. Emily G‏Verified account @EmilyGorcenski 8 Jun 2016
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      Often times, what you have to do is find patterns that work, then pull them back onto more specific spaces to establish results.

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      Emily G‏Verified account @EmilyGorcenski 8 Jun 2016

      Programming needs to do that, too. But often times all that work really just leads us back to where we started anyways.

      8:58 AM - 8 Jun 2016
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        2. Emily G‏Verified account @EmilyGorcenski 8 Jun 2016
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          Or we find that we do a whole lot of abstraction work to get not a whole lot that's new. No new problems get solved that weren't solvable b4

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        3. Emily G‏Verified account @EmilyGorcenski 8 Jun 2016
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          This isn't an invective against FP. OO iss just as bad at this. Enterprise Java is notorious for abstraction upon abstraction.

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        4. Emily G‏Verified account @EmilyGorcenski 8 Jun 2016
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          This is more a call to like, think about abstraction and use it when it makes sense, but also to remember the problem you're addressing.

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        5. Emily G‏Verified account @EmilyGorcenski 8 Jun 2016
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          Because that problem usually has to do with people. And people can't be abstracted away so easily.

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