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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…

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    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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CDC to begin studies to determine how widespread the virus really is…

Brian Leiter

…since of course testing so far has been far too limited to ascertain that.  Let's hope they do this right, unlike almost everything else so far.

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  1. Robert Lee

    Better still, these are serum studies and the first has already begun. This mean we have antibodies already, at least in limited quantities. Last I heard we were still in "real soon now" mode. These are important because people can be released from quarantine based on these test.

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