In fairness, the deep understanding took many years of studying the fundamentals. I started playing around with LA techniques (SVD on images, k-means clusterin

In fairness, the deep understanding took many years of studying the fundamentals. I started playing around with LA techniques (SVD on images, k-means clustering) around 20 years ago. I had a copy of K&R in the mid 90s because before I found out about Perl I stumbled across a way to add comments and a visitor counter to my homepage using C in the cgi-bin of the shell account on my ISP. Where GPT has been the most valuable is the nitty-gritty of converting between various data types and image formats!