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Category Theory 1.1: Motivation and Philosophy
The first lecture in Bartosz Milewski's category theory series for programmers. It covers the motivation and philosophy behind category theory and why composition matters for handling complexity.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters repeatedly name it as the friendliest entry point to category theory for working programmers.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Bartosz Milewski
- Topic
- category theory
- Format
- lecture
- Level
- intro
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 11
- HN mentions in dataset
- 19
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2016–2026
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From the original HN conversations
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This reminds me of a great talk by Bartosz Milewski [1] about the motivation and philosophy behind category theory. He makes the observation that our "monkey brains" are not good at dealing with complexity at all and we only really have one good strategy for …
defaultcompany on Hacker News · 2019-10
In On the Weaknesses of the Mathematical MindIf you are coming from imperative land (more specifically C++) then nothing beats articles and videos by Dr. Bartosz Milewski: [LINK] [VIDEO] [LINK] [LINK]
phekunde on Hacker News · 2020-05
In Ask HN: How to be fluent in functional language speak?That just means you are missing some foundation. If you are interested in understanding the theory I really recommend this: [VIDEO] [LINK]
openfuture on Hacker News · 2017-01
In Why hasn't Haskell taken over the world? And the curious case of Go
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