Reviewer 2: Perhaps the most disconcerting was an assertion at the beginning that neural networks are now the default classifier. This is far from true for many reasons. They are slow and expensive to train and require lots of data, plus they are difficult to interpret, making them a poor choice for many machine learning applications. Not only is that assertion inaccurate, it will be galling to many potential readers.
Reviewer 2: Perhaps the most disconcerting was an assertion at the beginning that neural networks are now the default classifier. This is far from true for many reasons. They are slow and expensive to train and require lots of data, plus they are difficult to interpret, making them a poor choice for many machine learning applications. Not only is that assertion inaccurate, it will be galling to many potential readers.