[chewxy]

Off topic, but since you mentioned jgrahamc's article in Nature, interestingly, this was what I read last night on Simply Statistics: http://simplystatistics.org/2013/01/23/statisticians-and-com...

It's a similar issue. I think statisticians are taking constructive steps to correct their path, since you know, ML is the new sexy thing. Bioinformatics could take a much longer time to self-correct though.

Although, as I mentioned in an earlier comment, Fred seems to be in a prime position to disrupt the bioinformatics field since he seems to know all the problems that afflict it

[troymc]

Regarding "ML is the new sexy thing," check out these graphs:

http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=machine+learnin...

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=machine%20learning

[nopinsight]

From your second graph, Iran and Pakistan have stronger interests in Machine Learning than the US. (I am not surprised about India, South Korea, and China though).

Is the interest in advanced Info Tech that widespread in those countries or simply because the only people who could use Google in those countries are government-sanctioned researchers? Anyone familiar with the reason could shine light for the rest of us?

[abdullahkhalids]

I am not sure how you based your conclusions.

Pakistan's internet is generally open (except youtube and pornography). But there is no widespread interest in ML particularly. Only a few companies - most of them outsourcing from the US.