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Comment by beforeolives

This is true but I don't like that the math understanding is often treated like some magic secret that only a select few have access to. As long as you have a decent foundation you can research stuff and get deeper into the theory as necessary. And this inevitably happens when you switch problem domains even if you've gone really deep in a certain type of algorithms.

It's not too different from a software developer figuring out a new API/system/technique etc. but for some reason the attitude is that you either know it or you don't.

And in the context of this article, I think that the point is that even the deeper understanding isn't that valuable to many organisations.

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