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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…

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    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 Hurley from Warwick to Bristol

Susan Hurley (philosophy of mind, psychology and cognitive science; political philosophy; philosophy of social science and decision theory) at the University of Warwick has accepted a Chair at the University of Bristol (for 2006), and has, in consequence, turned down the offer from the Australian National University.  That’s a major appointment for Bristol, and may even be enough to push the department into the top ten in the U.K.

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