Yup. My thesis advisor flat out told me to stop wasting my time with "crap" like neural nets. He came up in the time when they were disparaged by researchers co

Yup. My thesis advisor flat out told me to stop wasting my time with "crap" like neural nets. He came up in the time when they were disparaged by researchers competing for funding in AI so he didn't like them. He didn't care that I was using them to solve problems he was interested in, he wanted me to solve problems he was interested in using methods he approved of.