he's a developer and curious about the subject. Since it's a blog post, not a scientific paper, the fact that he did not understand could be a communication failure. I think he's being helpful

OP did not specify what their industry actually is. I've been doing "web work" for 17 years and I'm sharing their concern: where's the TL;DR for this? If this somehow can make me 100x as productive, how about starting with a "hello world" example that shows me how is it different from pip install django, etc?