Neil posted the paper in our fraternity's ML group chat (MIT things lol), and I expressed some skepticism at the results.
Initially we started looking into it more for curiosity's sake, but as we started digging we kept finding more and more ridiculous stuff to the point where we decided to start working on blog post. Then David joined in on the action and helped a ton with the research and writeup.
No professor was involved. The paper was released yesterday, so we just documented as we went along in the investigation process. It only took like 8 hours of work to compile the doc. We finished it last night and posted to Twitter in the morning.
Why didn’t you ask the authors for the actual sample dataset? Wouldn’t the commit to delete these files indicate that they were not the ones used in the study?
