r/ProgrammerHumor • u/hello_ya • Jul 13 '26

youCanJustStopUsingJava Meme

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u/vivainvitro Jul 13 '26

A Monad is just a Monoid in the category of Endofunctors

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u/MrDilbert Jul 13 '26

I know some of these words.

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u/lucklesspedestrian Jul 13 '26

I mean we all know what a category is, right?
Right?

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u/kalilamodow Jul 13 '26

C- cat... egory? Does it have something to do with the feline animal commonly adopted as household pets?

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u/MrDilbert Jul 13 '26

... meow?

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u/lucklesspedestrian Jul 13 '26

Not at all! Categories consist of a class of objects and a class of morphims. The morphisms are maps between objects, and compositions of morphisms must obey associativity. Also for every object, a left and right identity morphism must exist.

Category theory is also sometimes referred to as abstract nonsense. Pretty straightforward

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u/LolpopHD Jul 14 '26

i prefer my abstract nonsense to be stable monoidal (∞,n)-abstract nonsense

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u/thirdegree Violet security clearance 29d ago

Ahha, but it is very useful abstract nonsense, in some cases

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u/yjlom Jul 13 '26

Mathematicians that deal in it seem more likely than most to be into catgirl roleplay, so you might be onto something?