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Hackbraten 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Getting Started with Category Theory

> 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

hoping1 4 months ago [–]

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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