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Re:Getting Started with Category Theory by Hackbraten on Friday December 06, 2024 @05:06AM (#42338219)
> I don't think I mentioned a monoid of endofunctors or flatMap a single time in the post

I think GP was just quoting a meme there. See also [0], where the meme is said [1] to originate.

[0]: https://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33438586

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Re:Getting Started with Category Theory by hoping1 on Sunday December 08, 2024 @04:15PM (#42360539)
Oh yeah I'm well aware of the meme haha. I just wanted to show that I'm conscious of these things in my writing. My dedicated entry on monads (https://ryanbrewer.dev/wiki/monad) alludes to the meme in the first sentence :)
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