At the suggestion of a correspondent I glanced quickly at the book. On page 122 we have this image (left), while in chapter 1 of my book (published 5 years earlier) we have the image on the rightpic.twitter.com/mSqZcWDvSx
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I complained in 2018 about a book by Ankit Dixit, published by @packtpub, containing extensive plagiarisation from other sources. After much back-and-forth, @packtpub pulled the book. But now Mr Dixit and @packtpub are back, with a new book....https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1018670665430233088 …
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I didn't have the heart to look further. During the original episode I asked
@packtpub if they'd informed Dixit's employers (since the book features in his LinkedIn profile). I never heard back, but they did publish a "new" book by him...Show this thread -
In any case, while I haven't done a detailed investigation here, I certainly won't be purchasing any
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I should say, by the way, that I'm actually pretty sympathetic to an argument that the figure use I've identified is fair use. But a larger pattern seems suggested here. The fact of publishing followup books by the same author seems egregious.
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Incidentally, the image does appear to have been re-typeset (or maybe edited) - with some small changes. E.g., the fonts are different. I'm still puzzling over why they did that, since it's clearly the same image. Anyways.
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Oh: my book is available for free, online: http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com . And here's my thread about the impact of making such resources openly available:https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1031256363458916352 …
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I'm sorry to hear that they plagiarized your book for commercial purposes. Your book is one of the best online free resources available on the subject, I'm a fan myself.
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This has happened with
@fchollet's book too: https://twitter.com/raf_abate/status/1028655743535403008?s=21 …This Tweet is unavailable. - 1 more reply
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