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MrAcurite t1_iryb0bw wrote

Reply to comment by Wide_Researcher7816 in [D] (YouTube) Edutainment on (not only NN) ML by Wide_Researcher7816

Ah yes, Siraj. Great guy, keep watching him, totally not a known scam artist and plagiarizer.

But no, you're not going to find anyone going into the nitty-gritty of research papers in a manner that is both entertaining and educational.

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Wide_Researcher7816 OP t1_is09gzc wrote

:-D I am not saying that his content is original. I am saying that he is trying to be fun; and not even my type of fun, more like "Mr Beast"-fun (which I also do not like much).

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MrAcurite t1_is0yzj3 wrote

Oh, no, I mean he submitted clearly plagiarized papers to academic journals, and also scammed people out of tuition money to attend worthless boot camps.

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Wide_Researcher7816 OP t1_is5nrlm wrote

Oh, wow; indeed, I did not know that. I checked some of the reports on that. Disappointing, even if the paper he wrote was not peer reviewed etc. I am in the process of publishing to the ECML-PKDD journal track after 5-11 years of research (depending on how one is counting, as worked on other stuff too). It paints very much if other take the "cheap" route, esp. since my stuff is the opposite of low hanging fruit :-/.

But to share a bit of story here: one of the papers I am heavily comparing my work to, mentions a third paper once in the introduction, but then later goes on to basically copy and paste the formulas later without mentioning that third paper again. Not sure whether that is outright plagiarization, but it leaves a bit of a bad taste in my mouth.

What is kind of funny, is that I never liked the guy, as in "personal preference", but I always attributed it to my taste. Just as I cannot stand MrBeast, but I also attributed that to taste, as I try not to judge someone and that to consider this to be reasonable. Well, at least with Siraj, maybe my gut was actually right :-D.

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