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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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Pettit, McGeer at Princeton to take up half-time appointments at ANU

Victoria McGeer (philosophy of mind and cognitive science, moral psychology), a tenured member of the Research Faculty at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, and Philip Pettit (philosophy of mind, ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of social science), who teaches in Politics and Philosophy at Princeton, have accepted half-time appointments at the Australian National University, beginning in Spring 2013.  McGeer will be Fellow in Philosophy and Pettit will be Distinguished Professor of Philosophy.  The rest of the year they will be at Princeton.

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