Neil Lawrence had an interesting observation about the current state of machine learning, and linked it to fast ball games: "[…] the dynamics of the game will evolve. In the long run, the right way of playing football is to position yourself intelligently and to wait for the ball to come to you. You'll need to run up and down a bit, either to respond to how the play is evolving or to get out of the way of the scrum when it looks like it might flatten you." Neil Lawrence is known for his work in Gaussian Processes and is a proponent of data efficiency. He used to be professor at University of Sheffield, is now with Amazon. The ball has come to him.