"and seem to readily discount the some of the most prominent machine learning researchers in the world today." Your reading skills seem to be up to par, since

"and seem to readily discount the some of the most prominent machine learning researchers in the world today." Your reading skills seem to be up to par, since I have discredited a list of zero people. "You're obscuring important results that newcomers might have found interesting to follow up on." Not only have I obscured no results, but this isn't actually something I have the power to do.