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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

TAs, resident advisors at Michigan strike over health and safety issues…

including Michigan's stunning failure to do adequate testing.   The University Administration is, foolishly, playing hardball, asking a court for a preliminary injunction against the strikers, which could in theory bankrupt the union and worse.   President Mark Schlissel at Michigan is about to go down in academic infamy if he keeps going down this route.

(As a sidenote, let me observe that it was stupid of the grad student union, the GEO, to include a completely irrelevant demand about defunding university police in the strike demands:  this is the trendy and irrelevant bullshit of the moment, and is wholly unrelated to the real issues confronting grad student workers.)

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