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 …
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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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I hate to have to tweet about this again, but people have reported to me that they can no longer see the first tweet in my thread about Siraj's plagiarism. Reported as spam/harassment? What can I do about this?
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Replying to @AndrewM_Webb
it is visible for me:pic.twitter.com/iOZ0NTvctk
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Replying to @outlieranalysis @AndrewM_Webb
Try refreshing the thread
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