I've seen a statistician (and not one with advanced degrees, just a bachelors and years of experience with SAS) become a kick ass front end dev in the last few

I've seen a statistician (and not one with advanced degrees, just a bachelors and years of experience with SAS) become a kick ass front end dev in the last few weeks. I'm betting front end devs have a harder time becoming statisticians. There was this essay by pg where he called this concept "upwind".