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By "monad-related concepts" do you just mean abstract algebra? Otherwise, how are monoids and monads related, other than that they are both algebraic structures

• smcl 9y ago
  My comment was pretty poorly written, and is probably better understood in terms of just "explanations of things starting with mon-" :-D The concepts aren't tough, people are just pretty bad at putting themselves in the shoes of a learner, and throw bizarre over-complicated descriptions and examples into the mix when explaining them. The description I gave is someone's tongue-in-cheek stab at these which has stuck with me (unless I'm horrendously off and that is actually someone's legit attempt to describe monads)