You ain't wrong. Lots of ML is heavily influenced by fundamental research done by Physicists (eg. Boltzmann Machines), Linguists (eg. Optimality Theory / Paul

You ain't wrong. Lots of ML is heavily influenced by fundamental research done by Physicists (eg. Boltzmann Machines), Linguists (eg. Optimality Theory / Paul Smolensky, Phylogenetic Trees/Stuart Russell+Tandy Warnow), Computational Biologists (eg. Phylogenetic Trees/Stuart Russell+Tandy Warnow), Electrical Engineers (eg. Claude Shannon), etc. ML (and CS in general) is very interdisciplinary, and it annoys me that a lot of SWEs think they know more than other fields.