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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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    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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PGR Apologies…But We’re Almost There

Brian Leiter

The 2011 PGR will go live either later today at the existing site, or tomorrow morning, UK-time.  I'm afraid this part is out of my control, but the Wiley-Blackwell IT folks in Oxford are working on the final edits, formatting, and corrections.  Even after it goes live, there will be some broken links and some additional information that may need to be added, but all the ranking results, in the overall and specialty, categories will be there.

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