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  1. Wynship W. Hillier, M.S.'s avatar

    I first met Professor Hoy when I returned to UC Santa Cruz in Fall of ’92 to finish my undergraduate…

  2. Justin Fisher's avatar

    To be worth using, a detector needs not only (A) not get very many false positives, but also (B) get…

  3. 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…

  4. Deirdre Anne's avatar
  5. Keith Douglas's avatar

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

  6. sahpa's avatar

    Agreed with the other commentator. It is extremely unlikely that Pangram’s success is due to its cheating by reading metadata.

  7. Deirdre Anne's avatar

Colorado’s Rupert to take up .20 appointment at Edinburgh for next three years

Rob Rupert (philosophy of mind and cognitive science), Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has accepted a three-year part-time appointment as Professorial Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.  He writes:  "I will be in residence during much of
the next four summers, and I will be available to supervise graduate students."

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