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    To be worth using, a detector needs not only (A) not get very many false positives, but also (B) get…

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    Everything you say is true, but what is the alternative? I don’t think people are advocating a return to in-class…

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    Cyber security professional here -reliably determining when a computational artifact (file, etc.) was created is *hard*. This is sorta why…

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    Agreed with the other commentator. It is extremely unlikely that Pangram’s success is due to its cheating by reading metadata.

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Cassam from Oxford to UCL

Quassim Cassam (metaphysics, epistemology, Kant), currently at Oxford University, has accepted appointment as Professor of Philosophy at University College London, to begin January 1, 2005. (This is the post previously held by Paul Horwich, who is now at the City University of New York Graduate Center.) In addition to strengthening UCL’s profile in general M&E (other UCL faculty include Tim Crane, Paul Snowdon, and Michael Martin), Cassam also joins Sebastian Gardner (Kant and post-Kantian Continental philosophy, aesthetics), making UCL one of the most attractive places to study Kant in the U.K.

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