I don't doubt that there is real hard work involved. You might even have to learn several languages to do this kind of thing. The thing that the article seems

I don't doubt that there is real hard work involved. You might even have to learn several languages to do this kind of thing. The thing that the article seems to point towards is that you can do humanities by using your existing tools, basically reading and writing, and grinding. With mathy things that grind is building a house of cards, very fragile while you're building it up.