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| | bartoszmilewski.com
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| | Abstract: I derive a free monoidal (applicative) functor as an initial algebra of a higher-order functor using Day convolution. I thought I was done with monoids for a while, after writing my Monoids on Steroids post, but I keep bumping into them. This time I read a paper by Capriotti and Kaposi about Free Applicative...
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| | Exploring 3 different ways of encoding the natural numbers - Read more: https://cronokirby.com/posts/2020/08/encoding-the-naturals/
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| | A lot of people who like functional programming often give the reason that the functional style is simply more elegant than the imperative style. When compelled or inspired to explain (as I did in my old post, How I Learned to Love Functional Programming), they often point to the three "higher-order" functions map, fold, and filter, as providing a unifying framework for writing and reasoning about programs. But how unifying are they, really?
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| Functional programming has a bit of jargon, but that doesn't have to stop you from understanding core concepts