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I first met Professor Hoy when I returned to UC Santa Cruz in Fall of ’92 to finish my undergraduate…
To be worth using, a detector needs not only (A) not get very many false positives, but also (B) get…
Everything you say is true, but what is the alternative? I don’t think people are advocating a return to in-class…
The discussion here assumes an institutional context where returning to supervised in-person assessment is at least theoretically feasible, a reasonable…
Cyber security professional here -reliably determining when a computational artifact (file, etc.) was created is *hard*. This is sorta why…
Agreed with the other commentator. It is extremely unlikely that Pangram’s success is due to its cheating by reading metadata.
I see this question as a bit naïve. There is metadata on every document created by a modern word processor…
Gualtiero Piccinini (Missouri/St. Louis) discusses the issue. My own judgment is that for the vast majority of positions, having a publication in a reputable journal (either in your specialty, or a more generalist journal) is a plus, as long as it is a good piece. Professor Piccinini moderates comments at his blog, for those who want to discuss the issue.
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