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That's how I interpreted as well.

"Electrical transformer without any formal training in electric engineering" is basically how the title read to me. Followed by a lot of confusion when the article was not that.

Good on him, it's just... an odd way to phrase it :)

Heh, I went a step further and thought "ooh, a novice EE project, but titling it like that everyone's going to be confused about it involving machine learning" until I realized I was the one that got it backwards...

I didn't even consider that it COULD be about LLMs until I saw the comment above.

Though he was a novis and had no training in the field.