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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

The latest allegations against Kavanaugh

I think he's finished now.  There's just too many, and too much circumstantial evidence of an entitled rich jock behaving like a stereotypical entitled rich jock.   The real question now is whether the Democrats can prevent confirming someone else to the seat before the New Year.  (My guess is if Kavanaugh goes down, Trump will try to nominate Amy Coney Barrett or Joan Larsen, both of whom would be preferable based on what I know–though neither would be preferable to Merrick Garland!)

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