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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.

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U.S. News Proposes Ranking Law Firms; ABA Notices, and Is Concerned

But will they do anything meaningful about it?  And will they help save the law schools from the tyranny of the U.S. News fiasco?  ABA rankings of law schools would command attention!  I'd even supply them a legitimate methodology, on the cheap!

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