There's so much stuff about the world that we don't understand and want to and that even trivial machine learning techniques can help us figure out. Yet, at lea

There's so much stuff about the world that we don't understand and want to and that even trivial machine learning techniques can help us figure out. Yet, at least in my field (computer security), it has become incredibly difficult to publish research that applies machine learning without having some needlessly obtuse methodological twist to make it seem more complicated. Even low hanging fruit needs picking and I'm worried discoveries with intrinsic value are being left to rot in the name of feeling "scientific."