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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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    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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Cappelen from St. Andrews to Oslo, plus other hires

Øystein Linnebo writes:

Herman Cappelen, currently Arche Chair at the university of St Andrews and Director of the Arche Philosophical Research Centre, has accepted a position as professor at the University of Oslo, starting August 2015. In Oslo, Cappelen will also be a research director at the Centre for the study of mind in Nature (CSMN). He will retain a part-time continuing position at St Andrews.

Additionally, the University of Oslo has hired four new Professorial Fellows, who will all spend four weeks a year in Oslo: Carla Bagnoli (University of Modena), Berit Brogaard (University of Miami), Kristin Gjesdal (Temple University), and Agustin Rayo (MIT).

(We knew that Cappelen would be moving to Oslo, so he was not included among the full-time faculty at St Andrews during the recently concluded PGR surveys.)

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