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  1. Wynship W. Hillier, M.S.'s avatar

    I first met Professor Hoy when I returned to UC Santa Cruz in Fall of ’92 to finish my undergraduate…

  2. Justin Fisher's avatar

    To be worth using, a detector needs not only (A) not get very many false positives, but also (B) get…

  3. 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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  5. Keith Douglas's avatar

    Cyber security professional here -reliably determining when a computational artifact (file, etc.) was created is *hard*. This is sorta why…

  6. sahpa's avatar

    Agreed with the other commentator. It is extremely unlikely that Pangram’s success is due to its cheating by reading metadata.

  7. Deirdre Anne's avatar

Danks, Harrell from Carnegie-Mellon to UC San Diego

David Danks (philosophy of science and cognitive science, machine learning, ethics of AI), Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at Carnegie-Mellon University, and Mara Harrell (philosophy of science, philosophical pedagogy), Teaching Professor of Philosophy at CMU, have both accepted tenured offers from the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego.   Danks will be half in Philosophy and half in the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute; Harrell will be split between Philosophy and the new School of Public Health. Both will also be part of UCSD's Institute for Practical Ethics. They are expected to begin in fall 2021.

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