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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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Philosopher Alan Hajek from Cal Tech to the ANU

Alan Hajek (philosophy of science, decision theory, epistemology) at California Institute of Technology has accepted a senior offer from the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. The ANU, which suffered two major losses in recent years (Michael Smith is going to Princeton, and Philip Pettit also went to Princeton, though he is now taking up an Australian Federation Fellowship at Sydney), now concludes a good year, adding Hajek, as well as David Chalmers, another recipient, like Pettit, of an Australian Federation Fellowship.

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