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

  4. 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…

Demand the resignation of the Democratic National Committee Chair…

who has been doing everything possible to make sure that no one challenges Hillary Clinton.  For the first time in several decades we have a serious Presidential candidate, Senator Bernie Sanders, who challenges the neoliberal, Reaganesque status quo that has ruled through both the Clinton and Obama Administrations.  By holding very few debates, and scheduling them on Saturday evenings no less, the DNC is trying to make sure that the preferred candidate of the Democratic Plutocrats gets the nomination.  It's an unbelievable display of contempt for democracy.  (Ironically, almost all the polls on head-to-head match-ups shows Sanders leading Trump, and by a wider margin than Clinton!)

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