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

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

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    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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Help on a book sought from those who knew members of the Vienna Circle

Dave Edmonds (known to many readres from Philosophy Bites, as well as books and his BBC programs) writes:

I am co-writing a book on the Vienna Circle – part biography, part philosophy – and wondered if I can ask for your readers’ help. Many of those linked to the Circle emigrated to the US and lived until the 70s/80s/90s.  If anybody met or has any interesting stories or information about thinkers associated with the Vienna Circle, such as Gustav Bergmann, Rudolf Carnap, Herbert Feigl, Kurt Gödel, Karl Menger and Rose Rand (plus Carl Hempel, W.V.O.Quine and Alfred Tarski), I would love to hear from them.  I can be reached at david.edmonds@bbc.co.uk or @DavidEdmonds100 (on twitter).  Many thanks.

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