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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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JHP Book Prize for books published during 2019

Jean-Luc Solère (Boston College), the Book Review editors of Journal of the History of Philosophy asked me to share this announcement,which I am happy to do:

The 2020 Journal of the History of Philosophy Book Prize (books published in 2019) is awarded to: Sanford Shieh (Wesleyan University) for his Necessity Lost: Modality and Logic in Early Analytic Philosophyvol. 1 (Oxford University Press, 2019). A special Honorable Mention goes to: Ada Bronowski, The Stoics on Lekta: All There Is to Say (Oxford University Press, 2019), which came in as a very close second.

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