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I first met Professor Hoy when I returned to UC Santa Cruz in Fall of ’92 to finish my undergraduate…
To be worth using, a detector needs not only (A) not get very many false positives, but also (B) get…
Everything you say is true, but what is the alternative? I don’t think people are advocating a return to in-class…
The discussion here assumes an institutional context where returning to supervised in-person assessment is at least theoretically feasible, a reasonable…
Cyber security professional here -reliably determining when a computational artifact (file, etc.) was created is *hard*. This is sorta why…
Agreed with the other commentator. It is extremely unlikely that Pangram’s success is due to its cheating by reading metadata.
I see this question as a bit naïve. There is metadata on every document created by a modern word processor…
…God help us (if s/he exists).
UPDATE: It's a bad sign for the Repugs when even New York's Daily News starts mocking them. On the other hand, until the complete collapse of their party, we are all at risk.
IT'S A BIG INTERNET, with no quality control, so of course someone (from George Mason) tries to rationalize what's going on. "Anywhere out of this world," said Baudelaire.
AND ANOTHER: Krugman has a good column on this madness.
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