The accompanying footnote helps. His audience is academics - who up until this point have been mostly in and around other mathematicians. Its important to ask

The accompanying footnote helps. His audience is academics - who up until this point have been mostly in and around other mathematicians. Its important to ask yourself, "are you OK with having to sell/explain your work to people who aren't versed in even the basics of what you do?" Obviously that isn't all data science jobs, but in my experience most of my colleagues have to evangelize their work within their organization to some level.