[DrNuke]

> There has been a rise lately in Machine Learning/Deep Learning resources which have zero original projects or original ideas

Nah, not lazy imho. On one side, the barrier to just messing around is pretty low these days but the barrier to original projects or ideas is quite steep without a strong domain expertise and a nicely assembled dataset; on the other side, the arXiv repository and the most relevant conferences are possibly more suited to originality than the average list by Noob McNobody from his/her basement in Nowhere, Planet Earth?