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by paulddraper 3560 days ago
I can't upvote this enough. "From first principles" is the only way to master something -- math, programming, automotive maintenance, whatever.

There aren't ever that many foundational principles to a field of a study, but if you understand them -- really understand, until it becomes intuitive -- you're 80% the way to being an expert.