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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…
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…
There’s a simple way to test. Open a pre-2022 essay and copy-and-paste it into a new file.
Princeton's Program in Law and Public Affairs has issued its annual call for fellowship applications. The program will select up to five resident Fellows who are engaged in substantial research on topics broadly related to legal studies. Fellows spend an academic year in residence at Princeton. Applications are due on November 8, 2010.
Current fellows (including law professors Tanya Hernandez, Elizabeth Mertz, and Steven Wilf) are listed here. Previous fellows are here.
To be worth using, a detector needs not only (A) not get very many false positives, but also (B) get…