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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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Animal rights activist and scholar Gary Francione to take up half-time appointment at Lincoln in the UK

Gary Francione, a law professor at Rutgers University and a well-known theorist defending the rights of non-human animals, will take up a half-time professorial post in philosophy at the University of Lincoln where, along with philosopher Daniel Came at Lincoln, they will establish an animal ethics center.

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