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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

Anscombe papers go to Penn

A catch for Penn, but is she really "the most important" 20th-century female philosopher?  De Beauvoir?  Murdoch?  Ruth Barcan Marcus?  Philippa Foot?  Marjorie Grene?  Susan Stebbing?   Some of these folks are less read now than Anscombe, to be sure.   And Anscombe had greater breadth than some of these figures.  (I've commissioned volumes on Anscombe, and on DeBeauvoir, for the Routledge Philosophers series, but none of the others at this point.)

UPDATE:  A couple of readers rightly mention Hannah Arendt (about whom I have commissioned a volume in the Routledge Philosophers series), although Arendt is less read than Anscombe in the confines of what remains of "analytic" philosophy.

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