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This is probably true of every mathematical abstraction in wide usage. A big advantage of the probability abstraction (as a "partial knowledge" concept support

This is probably true of every mathematical abstraction in wide usage. A big advantage of the probability abstraction (as a "partial knowledge" concept supported by Dutch Book/sure bet arguments) is that you can define probability distributions to suit your business cases but then reuse a lot of existing algorithms and even theorems (cutting down on computation).

siraben 6y ago
> This is probably true of every mathematical abstraction in wide usage. After learning the categorical definition of monads and how they arise in math, I've noticed that programmers tend to have a very operational view of monads, when they are more general than the examples in functional programming. A good example that came up in a propositional logic class was[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closure_operator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closure_operator