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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…

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    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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New Books in August

Authors and/or publishers kindly sent me the following new books in August:

When the State Speaks, What Should It Say? How Democracies Can Protect Expression and Promote Equality by Corey Brettschneider (Princeton University Press, 2012).

Habilitation, Health, and Agency:  A Framework for Basic Justice by Lawrence C. Becker (Oxford University Press, 2012).

Jurisprudence:  Theory and Context by Brian Bix (6th edition, Carolina Academic Press, 2012).

Dungeons & Dragons and Philosophy:  Raiding the Temple of Wisdom edited by Jon Cogburn & Mark Silcox (Open Court Publishing, 2012).

The Machine Question:  Critical Perspectives on AI, Robots, and Ethics by David J. Gunkel (MIT Press, 2012).

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