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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…

  2. 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…

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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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“Baltimore Sun” covers the gifts to Johns Hopkins Philosophy

Here.  A couple of additional things I told the reporter that didn't make it in to the story, as inevitably happens.  First, I gave her an example of a program that went from the low 40s to the top 10, over a period of a decade, and without a $75 million donation (though quite a lot of university money), namely, University of Southern California.  Second, I noted that a distinctive, and to my mind admirable, feature of the Johns Hopkins Department is that it takes history of philosophy seriously, and already has a leadership position in, for example the study of modern philosophy through Kant and post-Kantian German Idealism.  I hope that's a feature of the program they will sustain going forward.  Third, I ventured the opinion that they will be at least a top 20 department in ten years of they grow from 13 to 22, while maintaing the current level of faculty quality; the fact is, it's a small department relative to other major research universities, which often have 20 or more faculty members, rather than Hopkins's 13.

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