I would add that even some of the academic papers focus on the applied perspective of machine learning. Such examples can be found in papers issued by security

I would add that even some of the academic papers focus on the applied perspective of machine learning. Such examples can be found in papers issued by security research institutes/companies. And now that we have cloud computing to replicate/validate or even extend those research papers is really just the matter of determination even if the subject of the paper needs a whole cluster of distributed resources.