[jerf]

Well, as I was trying to allude to, yeah, I did understand it pretty quickly because it uses a lot of common patterns.

Possibly I'm an extreme outlier, because when I say that I try to keep up with the field a bit, I really do. I really do watch YouTube videos of presentations full of math significantly more complicated than that every so often.

But still, I would also stand by my wondering if there was something else going on here, because it still seems to be grad students in school at the time really should have followed that. When I was in grad school I am quite confident I knew several other students who would have understood that just fine, and I went to "just" Michigan State, not MIT or Berkeley.