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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…

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    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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    At the risk of self-advertising:… You claim “AI is unusual in degree, not in kind” and “It is not clear…

Katrina Aftermath? Faculty Leaving Tulane

Dave Hoffman (Temple) has details here.  Already, the leading figure in the Tulane Philosophy Department has left because of the Katrina disaster. Faculty recruitment and retention, together with student recruitment and retention, will surely be crucial issues for Tulane over the next year or two.  Assuming there are no more flooding fiascos, I would expect Tulane to largely succeed on both fronts in the long run, though I imagine there will be other losses in the immediate future.

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  1. Poaching Tulane?

    Last fall, many law schools — including the University of Wisconsin — hosted displaced Tulane Law Students, and as far

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