Fad diets are like burrito tutorials

Posted on January 30, 2009 by Brent

Today at the top of my Gmail inbox was a link with the promise to explain “How I Lost 42 Pounds in 2 Months. Just Obey this 1 Rule, That’s All.” It occurred to me that fad diets are like monad tutorials. Of course, since Monads Are Like Burritos (and Tutorial is a functor), it follows that fad diets are like burrito tutorials. Which makes a certain amount of sense.

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Associate Professor of Computer Science at Hendrix College. Functional programmer, mathematician, teacher, pianist, follower of Jesus.
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5 Responses to Fad diets are like burrito tutorials

  1. chessguy says:
    January 30, 2009 at 4:31 pm

    err, you know you can turn those off right? Just click Settings and then Web Clips. Just thought I’d point that out.

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  2. Brent says:
    January 30, 2009 at 4:34 pm

    Oh, I know. But I actually use the Web Clips. Most of the time it shows me news headlines. But if you’re using Web Clips at all you can’t turn off the sponsored links.

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  3. Mitch says:
    January 30, 2009 at 6:13 pm

    Ah, now it makes sense. Since I started learning Haskell I’ve been struggling to understand intuitively what a “monad tutorial” is, and this metaphor really made it click for me. Thanks!

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  4. Curt Sampson says:
    February 21, 2009 at 11:22 pm

    Actually, after going through a few monad tutorials to try and understand what they were, I found that writing my own tutorial on monad tutorials helped quite a bit.

    Now I’m going to go eat a burrito.

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  5. Samuel BRonson says:
    April 6, 2010 at 11:22 pm

    @Curt: What? Not another one!

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