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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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Weinberg from Indiana to Arizona

Jonathan Weinberg (epistemology, experimental philosophy), Associate Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University at Bloomington, has accepted a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy and at the University of Arizona, where he will start in fall 2011 and also be affiliated with Cognitive Science.   Arizona will now be the first major PhD program in the country to have two tenured faculty working in experimental philosophy (Weinberg and Shaun Nichols)!

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