Max Rothman

While the question posed in the issue is answered, the problem posed in the issue (that the docs reference `@beam` as if it's explained elsewhere but it's not) seems still...

@ahankinson I've updated the title of the issue, does that work better for you? @kepper thanks for the insight. I think I understand that conceptually but I'm still fuzzy on...

Thanks for the additional context, I took a first pass at writing some docs in #1523. I think further discussion can safely take place there.