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  1. Keith Douglas's avatar

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

  2. 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…

  6. F.E. Guerra-Pujol's avatar

    Apropos of Sagar’s wish to foist the A.I. industry by its own petard, this article appeared in print in yesterday’s…

  7. Claudio's avatar

    I teach both large courses, like Jurisprudence and Critical Legal Thinking (a.k.a Legal Argumentation), and small seminar-based courses at Edinburgh…

Wisconsin legislature may take up legislation permitting “concealed carry” on campus in January

A beanbrain legislator from rural Wisconsin plans to introduce the legislation, which was defeated previously.  The Associated Students of Madison has launched a petition in opposition, which is here.  You should sign if you have a Wisconsin connection–obviously faculty and students, but also, for example, parents with children at Wisconsin colleges.

UDPATE:  Ohio too is on the edge of this insanity.

(Thanks to Evan Woods for the pointer.)

 

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