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  1. Wynship W. Hillier, M.S.'s avatar

    I first met Professor Hoy when I returned to UC Santa Cruz in Fall of ’92 to finish my undergraduate…

  2. Justin Fisher's avatar

    To be worth using, a detector needs not only (A) not get very many false positives, but also (B) get…

  3. 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…

  4. Deirdre Anne's avatar
  5. Keith Douglas's avatar

    Cyber security professional here -reliably determining when a computational artifact (file, etc.) was created is *hard*. This is sorta why…

  6. sahpa's avatar

    Agreed with the other commentator. It is extremely unlikely that Pangram’s success is due to its cheating by reading metadata.

  7. Deirdre Anne's avatar

Part I of Arash Abizadeh’s “Hobbes and the Two Faces of Ethics” available free on-line until August 31

Professor Abizadeh, a political theorist at McGill, was awarded the 2019 Canadian Philosophical Association Biennial Book Prize (English), and in recognition Cambridge University Press has made part of the book available for free through the end of August at http://ow.ly/Rqvf50vcvPw.

(Thanks to Victoria Willingale for the pointer.)

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