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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.

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Former director of Human Rights Watch denied Fellowship at Harvard’s Kennedy School for having “incorrect” views about Israel

The Nation reports.  If there is one arena in which attacks occur systematically on academic freedom and free speech in the U.S., it is for those–from Finkelstein to Salaita–who do not tow the party line on Israel.  What a disgrace.

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