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  1. 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…

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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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    At the risk of self-advertising:… You claim “AI is unusual in degree, not in kind” and “It is not clear…

Funny Chun

Chun the Unavoidable has a whole series of laugh-while-you-cry political posts, including: “James Inhofe Would Beat Kerry Resoundingly“; Victor Hanson’s “cognitive dissonant meltdown”; “Kerry is the most pitiful candidate the Democratic Party has ever nominated, and I’m not even sure he can carry his home state. Remember that Kerry barely was able to beat Weld in the most pinko state in the universe”; and “Juan Cole Uses The Phrase ‘Steaming Excrement,’ Though I Am Agnostic on Whether He Is Banging His Head against A Wall.”

UPDATE: Is there hope for Kerry, notwithstanding his dreariness, after all? This fellow thinks so. (Thanks to Luke Weiger for the pointer.)

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