[fn1]

I just want to mention here that "swimming in ideas" does not equal understanding.

For almost every discipline you need years of practice and appliation to be able to understand it deeper than most.

Don't take this the wrong way, but here's an XKCD somewhat related to this topic: https://xkcd.com/863/

[samh748]

I appreciate the warning. I made a general comment in response to this topic here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30930012