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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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Academic freedom in Sweden

As I learned when I was in Uppsala last August, the situation for academic freedom in Sweden is somewhat mixed.  Philosopher Erik Olsson (Lund), whom I had the pleasure of meeting at the Swedish Congress of Philosophy, recently called to my attention this report from the primary watchdog group on academic freedom in Sweden.  It seems some, but not all of the threats, to academic freedom are coming from other members of the academy, as in the reported case.

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