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By the way, I've chosen to expose this in a very public way because Siraj is currently running a course for over 1000 students at $200 a pop, and was recently accused of exploiting those students when he refused refunds. Now this. The man is a fraud and his students should know

Another nonsense synonym, presumably trying to hide plagiarism: "complicated Hilbert space"

Oops, I just realised that from my screenshots you can see that I've named my downloaded copy of Siraj's paper 'bullshit.pdf'

Hey @esa, you're due to have this guy run a workshop soon. You should probably rethink that https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/esac-stats-workshop-2019 …

In Siraj's github repo for this paper: "XanaduAI had a great proof of concept in this direction, I built off of their variational circuit code by modifying the fock basis truncation, adding an extra photonic quantum layer, and increasing the intial gate parameter seed"

None of those apparently very minor changes to the model are actually mentioned in the paper, mind

One thing I don't understand: this plagiarism is so brazen I don't know how he expected to get away with it. Is he counting on his fans forming a closed community that won't see or believe this kind of exposé?

Someone has just pointed out to me that the example application of the model in his paper is fraud detection