[chpmrc]

I took Andrew Ng’s famous Coursera ML course and I still find this stuff extremely fascinating and as close to magic as you can get (in the digital realm).

I agree that a higher degree of understanding lessens the emotional impact but often you just need to pause for a second, look back and appreciate what we’ve accomplished as a species.

Sometimes I get on a plane and mid flight I realize “wait a second, I’m in a metal box flying in the sky at 800 km/h and I can breathe, eat, drink and watch tv” and I get goosebumps, even though I’m kind of familiar with the physics of it.

Maybe some things just have an inherent “awe factor” and no matter how well you understand them you still get those butterflies. Or maybe I’m just blabbering :)