Monads are monoids in the category of endofunctors

Re:Monads are monoids in the category of endofunctors by void_mint on Friday September 10, 2021 @04:37PM (#28486604)

Do you provide concrete "definitions" to people that don't/wouldn't understand? How would you handle a child asking you about something beyond their years? Would you just respond with a textbook definition and say "lol sucks to suck"? No, you'd use language they could understand, and you'd guide them as that language increased. This is the difference between "teaching" and "just saying things to sound smart".

It's actually insane how hard programmers want to gatekeep even basic concepts.

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Re:Monads are monoids in the category of endofunctors by kaba0 on Saturday September 11, 2021 @01:39AM (#28489667)

Well, no matter what you won’t be explaining multivariable calculus to a children. Concepts build on each other and for certain ones, you do have to build from something. You can start teaching math, and indeed for certain topics, taking shortcuts is allowable. But this is context-dependent and not universally true.

Like, you can talk about programming to a child, but still not about JIT compilation.

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