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  1. Keith Douglas's avatar

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

  2. 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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    At the risk of self-advertising:… You claim “AI is unusual in degree, not in kind” and “It is not clear…

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    Apropos of Sagar’s wish to foist the A.I. industry by its own petard, this article appeared in print in yesterday’s…

  7. Claudio's avatar

    I teach both large courses, like Jurisprudence and Critical Legal Thinking (a.k.a Legal Argumentation), and small seminar-based courses at Edinburgh…

Rutgers will not extend the formal offer to Peter Ludlow

The Daily Northwestern quotes a Rutgers spokesperson, though seems a bit confused about the sequence of events.  The Department of Philosophy had in fact voted him an offer last fall and, ordinarily, its approval at the administrative level would have been pro forma.  Once the news of the Title IX lawsuit broke, the situation changed.  It is much easier, legally, not to authorize a tenured offer voted out by a department than it is to revoke tenure based on misconduct, so this outcome is not surprising (if Ludlow had moved to Rutgers with tenure, and the allegations against him were confirmed subsequently, Rutgers would be hard-pressed to take any kind of disciplinary or  remedial action).  If Ludlow is successful in his lawsuit, the loss of the Rutgers position will figure in any accounting of damages.  (A few weeks ago, on various social media, it was reported, falsely, that the Rutgers Department had voted "unanimously" not to re-extend the offer.)

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