> I'd venture this was written by someone who has a more traditional machine learning background that wants new people to the industry to have that same foundation

This is the vibe I got as well. Which is fair enough (to each his/her own), but I thought I'd mention fast.ai which takes the opposite approach:

> Harvard professor David Perkins, who wrote Making Learning Whole (Jossey-Bass), has much to say about teaching. The basic idea is to teach the whole game. That means that if you're teaching baseball, you first take people to a baseball game or get them to play it. You don't teach them how to wind twine to make a baseball from scratch, the physics of a parabola, or the coefficient of friction of a ball on a bat.