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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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Grand juries rarely indict police officers involved in shootings

This is a solid explanation of the legal standards, which make these outcomes predictable.  Remember, also, that a grand jury proceeding is not adversarial:  it is only the prosecutor presenting evidence, and if the prosectuor is skeptical that an indictment is appropriate, there's no one arguing the other side.

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