grounding

A polite fiction would have some grounding in reality.

You see it in a lot of self-taught programmers, many of whom have a weak grounding in computer science.

The original concept of the adjunct professor has strong grounding, and is actually very valuable.

> It just feels like irrelevant corporate politicking between super-rich corporations, and doesn't have any grounding in the real world.

" - Arnold ToynbeeThese irrelevant politicking with no grounding in the real world, directly affects the revenue of app developers in the opposite side of the globe.

Getting a formal grounding in signal processing is also a good idea, that one can be hard to pick up later and has surprisingly useful intuitions for a lot of high-speed networking tasks.

So during the trip, I used fractal and cosmology images and videos as an emotional "anchor" -- grounding the trip in material I already loved and was comfortable with / fascinated by.

Universities are designed to give you a firm grounding in the fundamental concepts, which should give you the ability to understand whatever tools are in fashion in the industry with relative ease.

Try grounding Air Force One by denying travel over Europe half way through a flight and then holding the US president for twelve hours against his will on the basis that you want to search his plane for a suspect and see how far you get under international law by claiming that it is fine because your airspace is sovereign territory.

In his dream he finds himself in a society where music education has been made mandatory....Since musicians are known to set down their ideas in the form of sheet music, these curious black dots and lines must constitute the “language of music.” It is imperative that students become fluent in this language if they are to attain any degree of musical competence; indeed, it would be ludicrous to expect a child to sing a song or play an instrument without having a thorough grounding in music notation and theory.