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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…

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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…

  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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Great moments in obscure rock ‘n’ roll: MC5, “The American Ruse,” 1970

This proto-punk band out of Michigan in the late 1960s has always had a bit of a cult following ("kick out the jams, motherfuckers!"), though this later number is less-known (though apt for the Independence Day weekend in America, where the ruse even has a Presidential candidate the MC5 couldn't have conjured):

 

And for those wanting a more typical MC5 number, here's a live 1970 performance of "Ramblin' Rose":

 

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