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  1. 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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  3. Keith Douglas's avatar

    Cyber security professional here -reliably determining when a computational artifact (file, etc.) was created is *hard*. This is sorta why…

  4. 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 Robert Taylor's avatar

    At the risk of self-advertising:… You claim “AI is unusual in degree, not in kind” and “It is not clear…

The tail is about to wag the dog again

U.S. News will revise its ranking formula (how we don't know yet) to reflect the more fine-grained data collected by the ABA.  On the plus side, perhaps this means U.S. News will stop reporting, without audit, the self-reported data it has relied upon for so long.

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