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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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Great moments in British rock ‘n’ roll that remain obscure in the U.S.: Small Faces, “Tin Soldier,” 1967

Between 1965 and 1968, the Small Faces had multiple top ten hits in the UK, but cracked the U.S. top twenty only once, with "Itchycoo Park."  Steve Marriott, the brilliant and distinctive lead vocalist (and guitarist), left the group in 1969 to form Humble Pie with Peter Frampton and moved in a more hard blues rock direction, which led to great success in the U.S. in the early 1970s; the remaining Small Faces joined forces with Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood to form the hugely successful Faces, which also had a good run in the early 1970s.  But here the Small Faces are at the peak of their U.K. success, with a great single (lip synced here) that never made it in the U.S.:

 

 

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