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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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  4. Keith Douglas's avatar

    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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  7. Mark's avatar

When you fire the Dean, there is usually fall-out…

…and the latest is the loss of Matt Spitzer (administrative law, telecommunications, law & economics), who will leave Texas after just a couple of years to go to Northwestern, whose Dean, Dan Rodriguez, came from the Texas faculty (though prior to last year's implosion).   Northwestern also has an offer out to legal historian Emily Kadens at Texas, who will visit Northwestern this coming year.

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