Oops, I just realised that from my screenshots you can see that I've named my downloaded copy of Siraj's paper 'bullshit.pdf'
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@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 …8 replies 45 retweets 544 likesShow this thread -
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"
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None of those apparently very minor changes to the model are actually mentioned in the paper, mind
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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?
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Someone has just pointed out to me that the example application of the model in his paper is fraud detection
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And of course that part is lifted straight from the original paper too
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The parts of the paper that aren't plagiarised from Killoran et al. are taken from this paper by Wang et al. https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.12599 I've shaded the plagiarised parts of this page...pic.twitter.com/3MGeKTVJBM
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This is bizarre: on this latest page he's even paraphrased the quotations!
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Yes, but ... *is* the Mandelbrot set decisive, or does it take forever to decide what clothes to put on in the morning, or what to eat for lunch?
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Replying to @gregeganSF @AndrewM_Webb and
asking the important questions
12:36 AM - 14 Oct 2019
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