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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…
We noted the big increases (5 or more spots) in the U.S. top 50 a couple of weeks back; below the fold are the schools that dropped 5 or more spots in the 2021 PGR compared to 2017:
University of Arizona: from 16th in 2017 to 22nd in 2021.
Duke University: from 25th in 2017 to 33rd in 2021.
Northwestern University: from 32nd in 2017 to 38th in 2021.
Carnegie-Mellon University: from 35th in 2017 to 40th in 2021.
Syracuse University: from 35th in 2017 to 40th in 2021.
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