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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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  4. Keith Douglas's avatar

    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.

  6. Deirdre Anne's avatar
  7. Mark's avatar

A Note on the Web-Stat Counter

A few folks noticed that the Web-Stat Counter went down, once last week, and once yesterday.  It didn’t have anything to do with the counter passing the million mark, but rather with the fact (as I discovered) that my existing account was limited to 6,000 visitor sessions per day, and that limit was exceeded last Wednesday and yesterday.  I’ve now changed my account, to accomodate the higher volume of visitors, which I expect will last through the admissions/decision season.

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