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Re:Swift Functors, Applicatives, and Monads in Pictures by jameshart on Tuesday July 14, 2015 @09:04PM (#9889127)
Right. You don't want to try to learn something mathematical from the Wikipedia article on it - Quaternions are a great example. The trouble with most of the writing about monads is that it's all at the level of the opening paragraph of a Wikipedia math article.

We have to do better at finding a way to teach this stuff.

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Re:Swift Functors, Applicatives, and Monads in Pictures by mdup on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @07:55AM (#9890819)
When I started using quaternions for rotations, which -- if we're honest -- is the #1 practical applications, I had much more success building my intuition around this Wikipedia section:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternions_and_spatial_rotati...

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Re:Swift Functors, Applicatives, and Monads in Pictures by dragonwriter on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @12:29PM (#9892268)
> The trouble with most of the writing about monads is that it's all at the level of the opening paragraph of a Wikipedia math article.

IME, that's not at all true; most of the theory-heavy sources I've seen are explicitly framed as alternatives to the large body of intuitionist tutorials that avoid theory almost entirely, focusing on a few popular applications (usually, collections and IO.)

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