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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…

  2. 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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  4. Keith Douglas's avatar

    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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“Death of an adjunct,” revisited

A more detailed story about the former adjunct French professor at Dusquesne, whose death generated substantial national attention.  As one might have suspected, the story had more complexities than the original report suggested, though the complexities make it more, not less, tragic.  One thing not in dispute:  Dusquesne has resisted efforts by its adjunct faculty to unionize.  Shame on the university!

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