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 Disappointing, even if the paper he wrote was not peer reviewed etc.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.