Is r/MachineLearning "Deep Learning News"? • /r/MachineLearning

I was downvoted to hell on my main post, and the replies ("but Kaggle and Gaussian noise!") strongly suggest we have a lot of enthusiasts/amateurs in the subreddit. Working professionals attracting top dollar know that focusing on non-NN techniques is currently a poor idea at best. I can't convey that better than Google/Facebook/everyone else in the world already have, through their hiring and their solutions to pretty much everything in the past few years. I feel for the people new to the field, and they should have exposure (through books and basic problems) to other techniques. They should then take "big" data sets, run NNs and the other techniques on them, and see what the performance differences are.