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  1. Wynship W. Hillier, M.S.'s avatar

    I first met Professor Hoy when I returned to UC Santa Cruz in Fall of ’92 to finish my undergraduate…

  2. Justin Fisher's avatar

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

  3. 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…

  4. Deirdre Anne's avatar
  5. Keith Douglas's avatar

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

  6. sahpa's avatar

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

  7. Deirdre Anne's avatar

Another friend of fascism takes a beating

Eric Muller (North Carolina, Law) has usefully collected a quite devastating set of critical comments on a recent book by right-wing pretty-girl pundit Michelle Malkin defending the internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII. (Professor Muller himself has written a scholarly book on the subject.) Ms. Malkin’s primary qualifications, other than being a mindless right-winger and photogenic, are that (you guessed it) she’s a journalist. Mr. Kraus?

UPDATE: More on Malkin and the right-wing propaganda machine here.

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