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  1. Justin Fisher's avatar

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

  2. Mark's avatar

    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…

  5. sahpa's avatar

    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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Leading Ad Law Scholar Shapiro from Kansas to Wake Forest

Sidney Shapiro, one of the nation’s leading authorities on administrative law at the University of Kansas, has accepted the University Distinguished Chair in Law at Wake Forest University; details here. That Chair was held previously by the distinguished constitutional theorist Michael Perry, who was recruited away by Emory last year, where he now holds that University’s most prestigious (and lucrative) post, the Robert W. Woodruff Professorship.

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