There are some new machine learning videos from the Simons Institute at the moment:
https://youtu.be/8jR9DkXY_ZU
It is like the Renascence with patronage from billionaires fueling development rather than the people and their government.
In this video there is discussion about learning whether a point is on the data manifold or off the data manifold and the usefulness of knowing that.
That sounds like a match with Numenta anomaly detection.
https://youtu.be/ceD736_Fknc?t=42m55s