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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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New books in August

Authors and/or publishers kindly sent me these new books this month:

Finding Meaning in an Imperfect World by Iddo Landau (Oxford University Press, 2017).

The Philosophical Parent:  Asking the Hard Questions about Having and Raising Children by Jean Kazez (Oxford University Press, 2017).

Exploring Inductive Risk:  Case Studies of Values in Science edited by Kevin C. Elliott & Ted Richards (Oxford University Press, 2017).

Ethics at 3:AM:  Questions and Answers on How to Live Well edited by Richard Marshall (Oxford University Press, 2017).

Hegel's Social Ethics:  Religion, Conflict, and Rituals of Reconciliation by Molly Farneth (Princeton University Press, 2017).

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