> I think its much better for a beginner engineer to learn the methods from first principles and develop an appreciation for them. They can then learn the disti

> I think its much better for a beginner engineer to learn the methods from first principles and develop an appreciation for them. They can then learn the distinction between what's true and the intuitive language people use to describe a phenomenon they don't completely understand but can pattern match to. This seems super meta, because I am a beginner engineer and your comment is totally pattern matching to distillation, but for humans instead of models. Maybe beginners should start with those “functional“ (read: distilled) truths and train from there :)