At some point, most (all?) of us have "borrowed" code from the interwebs to use in our own code and that seems fine. But is copy-pasting blocks of code from another blog and publishing it in one's own blog considered as plagerism? I see this fairly often. Thoughts?
Literally 1 or 2. But also on a case by case basis, it really depends. Can you DM me the example(s)?
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I'll have to trace back my steps and see if I can find them. It might take some digging.
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i mean, i'll say this. if you google for keras char rnn, a lot of code on blogs look a lot likehttps://github.com/keras-team/keras/blob/master/examples/lstm_text_generation.py …
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Do you feel that if someone used code from the example script in their blog post, they should cite that?
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They should because it's licensed under the MIT license. Of course they should. https://github.com/keras-team/keras/blob/master/LICENSE …
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Ulgh. I can't find it. I have a vague recollection of the topic (probably related to web scraping and natural language processing), but there are too many medium posts on that topic. In one example, I recall that it was a solid block of code (>>10 lines), copied verbatim.
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but here's the worst part of it that I distinctly recall—the medium writer that had copied it was very popular and had generated thousands of claps, whereas the original author had maybe a couple hundred.
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It's more about the simplicity of the task at hand than the lines per se. Although of course these are related.
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for anything that's not in official documentation I try to cite where I got it, at least. Even in my own programs. That way other people can go back if there's a problem and get more context.
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IMHO: Even something in official docs (if long, more than 2 lines) should be cited back to the official docs if lifted verbatim.
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BTW when I say "should" they obviously aren't going to sue you if you don't cite them, but also you would be laughed out of town if you tried to imply you wrote that code (I have seen this sadly). Not that
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I agree! (I mean, I don't think anyone should publish anything without citations; no one's come up with an idea expressible in language in complete isolation.)
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I think some of the saddest stuff I have seen was a person trying to show how well they can code and they lifted an example from the docs (and didn't bother to make it work for their task/data) and claimed it proved how they can code. Painful!
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Yeah, but also really sad. Really really sad. I feel an overwhelming sadness that her world was so confused.
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