Lessons from Optics, The Other Deep Learning – arg min blog
▻http://benjamin-recht.github.io/2018/01/25/optics
People don’t fear this design process. Each year, the US graduates hundreds of optical engineers who go on to design lenses that work. And they’re not scared of their job.
That’s not because optics is easy. It’s because the mental models in optics are organized well.