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I first met Professor Hoy when I returned to UC Santa Cruz in Fall of ’92 to finish my undergraduate…
To be worth using, a detector needs not only (A) not get very many false positives, but also (B) get…
Everything you say is true, but what is the alternative? I don’t think people are advocating a return to in-class…
The discussion here assumes an institutional context where returning to supervised in-person assessment is at least theoretically feasible, a reasonable…
Cyber security professional here -reliably determining when a computational artifact (file, etc.) was created is *hard*. This is sorta why…
Agreed with the other commentator. It is extremely unlikely that Pangram’s success is due to its cheating by reading metadata.
I see this question as a bit naïve. There is metadata on every document created by a modern word processor…
When it became clear that John's cancer had recurred and was terminal earlier this year, John's wife, Jenny, reached out to friends asking them to share with John our memories of him. Jenny, after seeking permission, has now made these available here. Those who knew John will appreciate them, and those who didn't, will get a fine sense of the person from them. What a tragic loss.
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