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+author: "Youwen Wu"
+authorTwitter: "@youwen"
+desc: "a rite of passage"
+image: "./images/gradient-ascent.jpg"
+keywords: "monads, haskell, category theory, programming"
+lang: "en"
+title: "the obligatory post about monads"
+---