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I first met Professor Hoy when I returned to UC Santa Cruz in Fall of ’92 to finish my undergraduate…
To be worth using, a detector needs not only (A) not get very many false positives, but also (B) get…
Everything you say is true, but what is the alternative? I don’t think people are advocating a return to in-class…
The discussion here assumes an institutional context where returning to supervised in-person assessment is at least theoretically feasible, a reasonable…
Cyber security professional here -reliably determining when a computational artifact (file, etc.) was created is *hard*. This is sorta why…
Agreed with the other commentator. It is extremely unlikely that Pangram’s success is due to its cheating by reading metadata.
I see this question as a bit naïve. There is metadata on every document created by a modern word processor…
Starting tomorrow, philosophers Benjamin Hellie (Cornell) and Jessica Wilson (Michigan) will be taking over here; you can see some of their fine blog work at For the Record. I’ll be in the UK some of that time, speaking at the “Nietzsche and Ethics” conference at Sussex. I may post one or two items, but mostly it will be Professors Hellie and Wilson from September 7 to September 14.
Enjoy!
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