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Re:Computational Category Theory in Python III: Monoids, Gro... by spekcular on Monday May 04, 2020 @04:04PM (#23072646)
Yeah, I totally agree.

It's just I see a lot of category hype on here and I want to yell that it's mostly just linguistic! It's not some deep or scary thing. The analogy to matrix notation is really good.

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Re:Computational Category Theory in Python III: Monoids, Gro... by WoahNoun on Monday May 04, 2020 @04:38PM (#23072976)
Oh yea, the computer science side of things seems to rename anything related to abstract algebra as "category theory."
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