I dropped out of a PhD in RFIC/MMIC design. Gradient student descent and lack of first principles reasoning hits too close to home. Maybe it's just the nature o

I dropped out of a PhD in RFIC/MMIC design. Gradient student descent and lack of first principles reasoning hits too close to home. Maybe it's just the nature of highly empirical engineering disciples to just throw many hours of grad student and simulation time blindly at problems in hopes that one lucky fella finds a new optimization.