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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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Wyman from NYU Law to Toronto

Katrina Wyman (environmental law), currently an assistant professor of law at New York University, has accepted an offer from the law faculty at the University of Toronto.  While leading Canadian law faculties are frequently raided by American schools, moves back North are more rare (the only other one I can think of recently involved Michael Byers [international law] who moved from Duke to a Canada Research Chair at the University of British Columbia).

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