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"what was the stumbling block that you hit, or that people hit, when trying to learn about category theory?""oh, the biggest stumbling block is that mathematicians, they just don't explain things the way that's easy to understand ????. it's like, when you read a mathematical paper or a book, it's written in a certain style, you know?""is it that it's written for mathematicians to understand and not programmers?""i think it's a culture, it's a culture thing you know it's like, there's even, being a physicist, you know, i see the difference in culture between physics and mathematics. in physics you know we had this great guy feynman who, he would always try to explain things in the simplest terms, and he loved giving talks to outsiders trying to explain quantum field theory, you know, and mathematicians don't do that. they write these abstract papers and, if you don't get it, you know, it's like you're stupid because you don't get it, you know?, you shouldn't be reading this. whereas feynman had the opposite like 'if i can't explain it it means i can't understand it' "https://chtbl.com/track/7D91G/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/corecursive/035_-_CT.mp3