Here is where I admit I have no clue what a monad is in either Maths or Computer Science (I know what it is in Leibniz Philosophy, but I have the strong suspicion that is not going to help me much). #IAdmitIgnorance - ThreadSky

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j-bertolotti.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy • 29 days ago

Here is where I admit I have no clue what a monad is in either Maths or Computer Science (I know what it is in Leibniz Philosophy, but I have the strong suspicion that is not going to help me much).
#IAdmitIgnorance

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mattmcirvin.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy•29 days ago

@j_bertolotti The math and CS definitions seem to be logically the same thing, though it can be hard to see.

The context where I know them is systems for manipulating streams or collections of data. There are certain things you can do to them to transform them--you can put anything into them […]

mattmcirvin.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy•29 days ago

@j_bertolotti Anyway, these kinds of operations are really useful when dealing with things like Web interactions, where you might have a bunch of concurrent requests to remote servers that could come back in any order with an unknown delay, and maybe some of the responses give you information […]

j-bertolotti.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy•29 days ago

@mattmcirvin This will require some time to digest 😉

dougmerritt.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy•29 days ago

@j_bertolotti @mattmcirvin
If it helps, CS got it from math. Math in turn borrowed it from Leibniz.

P.S. It won't help.

mattmcirvin.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy•28 days ago

@dougmerritt @j_bertolotti ...and I guess Leibniz got it from the Pythagoreans.

dougmerritt.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy•28 days ago

@mattmcirvin @j_bertolotti
Wait, which thing from the Pythagoreans?

mattmcirvin.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy•29 days ago

@dougmerritt @j_bertolotti And for my purposes it absolutely does not matter than any of this is a monad, it's just a fun fact.

mattmcirvin.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy•29 days ago

@dougmerritt @j_bertolotti if you drew a picture of how all the requests go out and the data streams come together it totally would look like category theory though.

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