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Sorry to keep beating a dead horse, but something just occurred to me that I haven’t seen anyone discuss. Why…
I first met Professor Hoy when I returned to UC Santa Cruz in Fall of ’92 to finish my undergraduate…
To be worth using, a detector needs not only (A) not get very many false positives, but also (B) get…
Everything you say is true, but what is the alternative? I don’t think people are advocating a return to in-class…
The discussion here assumes an institutional context where returning to supervised in-person assessment is at least theoretically feasible, a reasonable…
LLMs have been nothing but baleful for the humanities, and they’ve appeared at a time that amounts to kicking humanities…
Cyber security professional here -reliably determining when a computational artifact (file, etc.) was created is *hard*. This is sorta why…
The journalist Carlin Romano may have dreamed of such a course, but now a competent philosopher has produced one: you can see the syllabus and course description by Susanna Siegel (Harvard) at her homepage. Thanks to the Trump catastrophe, I expect others may be interested in teaching such courses.
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