When learning higher-order concepts like monad/arrow, how much of the learning complexity is essential vs incidental?
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grp 1 struggles with abstraction, grp 2 can avoid it with path taken through concepts, for grp 3 it’s a breath of fresh air
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. Great point: perhaps some who struggle have not yet built thorough understanding of abstraction, in general.
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perhaps, but I’ve been coding for 35 years in 20+ languages and took grad math through category theory and …
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universal algebra. I get monads but still find most explanations inscrutable. The words used combat understanding.
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I agree (having had the same level of math education)—mostly poorly explained, described, and contextualized