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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…

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    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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Two senior appointments for Aberdeen: Beaney from KCL, Kallestrup from Copenhagen

Michael Beaney (history of analytic philosophy), Professor of Philosophy at King's College, London and at the Humboldt University, Berlin, will leave his half-time post at KCL to be Regius Professor of Logic at the University of Aberdeen (he will continue the rest of his time at Humboldt).   Jesper Kallestrup (epistemology, philosophy of mind), Professor of Philosophy at the University of Copenhagen, will become Professor of Philosophy at Aberdeen.

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