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Depends on definition of math. I'm pretty good at addition. Not so good at multivariable calculus or advanced statistics stuff.
I understand many things roughly and intuitively, but I suck at remembering exact details and rules. -
@bittersweet I'm willing to bet that you have no trouble with monoids in the category of endofunctors though :p
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Hehe FP academics are good at being obnoxious. I love that obnoxiousness, although it's ridiculously unhelpful.
Things look more difficult than they are.
Haha you don't understand the Damas–Hindley–Milner type system?
Well, no, not if you write it will all kinds of funny looking Greek letters.
[APP] "e0 : T -> T' / e1: T ---- e0 e1 : T'"
If a "length" function has type String -> Int, and a "dayofweek" function has no arguments and returns a String, then length(), applied to dayofweek(), must return type Int.
[INST] "e0 : S' / S' I cant write this shit on a qwerty keyboard fuck this"
If e is of type Car, and Car is part of type Vehicle, then e is also a Vehicle. Duh.
IS THAT SO FUCKING HARD? JUST GIVE SOME FUCKING EXAMPLES YOU FOSSILIZED PRETEND-SCIENTISTS. MATH IS NOT EVEN REAL, GO SUCK KURT GÖDELS COCK AND CRY.
Ahem.. people write things in the language of their field, which looks cryptographic to all others, even if the core concepts are fairly simple. -
@RememberMe
I think the moral of the story is, if someone just throws stupid formulas at you, you punch them in the face until they bust out some easier to understand metaphors.
And none of this Foo Bar Baz shit.
Fuck off, have you ever seen a Foo walk into a Bar in real life? DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT A FOO IS YOU PRETENTIOUS ASSHOLE?
No, formulas should include elephants, rollerskates, cartons of milk and juggling balls.
A catamorphism doesn't fold Foos, it just fucking sums up the total amount of stripes on all the zebras in the zoo!
A Monad is not a Monoid in the category of my smelly anusfunctor, it's a nice kindersurprise egg, and fmap fucking magically builds that toy inside that egg without breaking the chocolate!
FUCK YOUR GREEK LETTERS AND SYMBOL SHIT.
ps. I might have consumed a bottle of tawny port, but that's part of teaching category theory and FP shit. -
@bittersweet haha! Indeed, I have a similar rant somewhere. I finally bit the bullet and did introductory category theory and formal logic, so now I can at least read the stuff even if actually understanding it takes a lot of time and head-scratching. I remember going "oh, is that it?" when I finally figured out the notation for the Hindley-Milner type system, heh.
I've also been collecting monad descriptions because so many people come up with weird/nice ones, I think I'll publish the list somewhere in a bit, going to add yours to it too xD -
@kleopi @Jay-Kadam Ohhhhhh I just got the joke. Haha I completely skipped over the fact that 75 + 14 is more than 100%
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