Comment by lmeyerov

Even just undergraduate linear algebra & calc + real analysis & prob/stats... With good teachers to draw the connections

Stuff like info theory are amazing bc of this... But easy to miss if you are just working through a drier text

The crazier version for me is we have a physics professor on our team whose grounding intuitions are use ideas like black holes for mental intuition... Which does not work as well for the rest of the team

(And a lot of modern ML/AI feels very engineered and interchangeable after that, like 'metric function of the month')