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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…

  4. Deirdre Anne's avatar
  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

The stock markets

The FTSE 250 (Britain) is actually up today, and the Dow Jones industrial average is fairly calm, even up slightly at the start, now down slightly.  What's going on, pundits are wondering?  Here's what:  A Republican President and Congress means giveaways to the rich and to corporations, and stock markets like that.  Who would have guessed?  Will the markets price in the global uncertainty involved in a Trump Presidency?  Maybe not until it happens.

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