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> If I had a penny for every dissertation in the past few years that boiled down to...

This is very, very accurate. On the other hand, I oftentimes see field-specific papers from field experts with little ML experience using very basic and unnecessary ML techniques, which are then blown out of the water when serious DL researchers give the problem a shot.

One field that comes to mind where I have really noticed this problem is genomics.



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