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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…

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  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

New Books in July

Authors and/or publishers kindly sent me these new books this month:

The Critical Imagination by James Grant (Oxford University Press, 2013).

Life, War, Earth:  Deleuze and the Sciences by John Protevi (University of Minnesota Press, 2013).

My Friendship with Martin Buber by Maurice Friedman (Syracuse University Press, 2013).

Emotion and Imagination by Adam Morton (Polity Press, 2013).

On Music by Theodore Gracyk (Routledge, 2013).

Virtue Ethics and Confucianism edited by Stephen C. Angle & Michael Slote (Routledge, 2013).

Arguing about Human Nature:  Contemporary Debates edited by Stephen M. Downes & Edouard Machery (Routledge, 2013).

Plotnius:  Ennead V.5:  That the Intelligbles are not External to the Intellect, and on the Good trans. & ed. by Lloyd Gerson (Parmenides Publishing, 2013).

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