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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 September

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

After Hegel:  German Philosophy, 1840-1900 by Frederick C. Beiser (Princeton University Press, 2014).

Disagreement by Bryan Frances (Polity Press, 2014).

Axel Hagerstrom and Modern Social Thought edited by Sven Eliaeson, Patricia Mindus, & Stephen P. Turner (Bardwell Press, 2014).

Law and Authority Under the Guise of the Good by Veronic Rodriguez-Blanco (Hart Publishing, 2014).

Autonomy after Auschwitz:  Adorno, German Idealism, and Modernity by Martin Shuster(University of Chicago Press, 2014).

 

 

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