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Are we all aware that the repository owner is Siraj Raval? The guy infamous for claiming others' work as his own? I think the ML community disowned this guy a long time ago for peddling snake oil

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Technically, he was disowned for a) plagiarizing a ML paper badly, creating the "complicated doors" meme b) taking money for an online course that he blatantly misrepresented and c) doing both a and b at the same time and therefore getting too much heat to ignore.

He did not get as much heat for just peddling AI snake oil. Atleast AI scrutiny has evolved since then, and I'm surprised this is the first time I've heard about Siraj in quite awhile.

Add taking our repo/project name to the list: https://GitHub.com/featurebasedb/doctorgpt

> a)

Have a reference for this meme? Can't find it from a google search

Here's one of the original discussions: https://www.reddit.com/r/learnmachinelearning/comments/dh38x...

It appears I was wrong on the specifics of the meme:

> He changed "logic gate" to "logic door" and "complex Hilbert space" to "complicated Hilbert space" to try to hide the plagiarism. What a legend.

It's funny how memory works, "complicated doors" is an almost perfect combination of those two mistakes.

An absolute clown.

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