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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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Three senior hires for Oxford

The newest is Catherine Abell (philosophy of art), who was previously Reader in Philosophy at the University of Manchester.  The two older ones, which I had missed, were Alice Crary (ethics, feminist philosophy) who is taking up a half-time post at Oxford, but will also continue half-time at the New School in New York City; and Joel David Hamkins (logic), who was previously at the College of Staten Island and the City University of New York Graduate Center.  All three are professors as well as tutorial fellows at various Oxford colleges.

(Thanks to Eric Sheng for alerting me to these moves.)

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