NY Times story here. Some of this is the predictable consequence of the neoliberal trends in American society over the past thirty years, which have eviscerated the public sector. But the implications of this trend (if that is what it is) could end up posing a serious threat to the rule of law: first, by lowering the quality of the judiciary; and second, at the extreme, by creating financial incentives for misconduct by judges desperate to augment their salaries. We aren't at the latter point, yet, but if things continue the same way for another twenty years….
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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…
I first met Professor Hoy when I returned to UC Santa Cruz in Fall of ’92 to finish my undergraduate…