It is a solid rant in that there are many people at there getting paid well (or selling) dubious models that will never work outside a narrow training set. The

It is a solid rant in that there are many people at there getting paid well (or selling) dubious models that will never work outside a narrow training set. Their bosses or customers will be none the wiser, but the results are dangerous. I witnessed similar problems in search where data retrieval was not guaranteed. Often systems were fragile and needed to be closely monitored for document feeding problems and index health. Some companies cough(autonomy)cough were selling complete shit for insane prices for critical applications like legal doc searches. Many companies keep in business by easily snowed/biased/bribed tech journals and paying off client execs with strippers, parties, etc. BTW, search hasn't changed much and it is still dangerous to just assume it works for things as 'simple' as ELK.