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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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  4. Keith Douglas's avatar

    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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  7. Mark's avatar

Rutgers University disgraces itself in front of the First Amendment and academic freedom

Rutgers University will punish a history professor for comments on his Facebook page that attracted the attention of the right-wing rage machine.  His comments are, rather obviously, funny and ironic, but even if they were unfunny and unironic, they appeared on his Facebook page, which is not the University's business, under its contractual commitment to academic freedom and its constitutional obligation to abide by the First Amendment.  Shame on Rutgers!

(Thanks to Rebecca Gould for the pointer.)

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