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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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Legal Scholars Challenge Obama’s Choice of Cass Sunstein as Regulatory Czar

Brian Leiter

Several leading scholars of administrative and environmental law have raised questions about Sunstein's views on cost-benefit analysis in connection with his nomination to be "Regulatory Czar" for Obama:  their report is here.  One of the authors is my former colleague, and one of the nation's leading progressive voices in administrative and environmental law, Thomas O. McGarity, Jr. of the University of Texas. 

UPDATE:  My current colleague Eric Posner (Chicago) responds to some of the criticisms of Sunstein's work.

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