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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…

  2. 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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  4. Keith Douglas's avatar

    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.

  6. Deirdre Anne's avatar
  7. Mark's avatar

Sinclair from Roehampton to Queen’s U/Belfast

Mark Sinclair (post-Kantian Continental philosophy, history of modern philosophy, metaphysics) was offered a new position at Roehampton during the recent administrative assault on the unit (and others), but has chosen to take up instead a post in philosophy at Queen's University, Belfast. This is the cost of trying to dissolve a unit and making people re-apply for their jobs:  many of the best people will leave.  (Professor Sinclair, by the way, did the very nice Bergson volume in my Routledge Philosophers series.)

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