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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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    Apropos of Sagar’s wish to foist the A.I. industry by its own petard, this article appeared in print in yesterday’s…

Seeking memories and anecdotes about Derek Parfit

MOVING TO FRONT FROM NOVEMBER 26, FOR READERS WHO MAY HAVE MISSED IT

David Edmonds–author most recently of The Murder of Professor Schlick (Princeton), as well as co-host of the popular Philosophy Bites podcast with Nigel Warburton–writes:

I am just starting research on a biography of my one-time supervisor, Derek Parfit.  I would be very interested in hearing from those who met or corresponded with him and have interesting memories/anecdotes.  I can be contacted by email at laspalmasdave@aol.com

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