I did not know about NSERC funding deep learning, thanks for mentioning that. Maybe "relatively isolated" was the wrong term. I meant to convey that deep learn

I did not know about NSERC funding deep learning, thanks for mentioning that. Maybe "relatively isolated" was the wrong term. I meant to convey that deep learning advances didn't come from where you would expect, the MIT/Cal/Stanford places. Which is a good thing in that sometimes the usual suspects get stuck in a local minimum doing the same things and thinking the same way. And someone going off in a different direction, for whatever reason, can pop out of the local minimum and arrive at a better place.