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  1. Wynship W. Hillier, M.S.'s avatar

    I first met Professor Hoy when I returned to UC Santa Cruz in Fall of ’92 to finish my undergraduate…

  2. Justin Fisher's avatar

    To be worth using, a detector needs not only (A) not get very many false positives, but also (B) get…

  3. 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…

  4. Deirdre Anne's avatar
  5. Keith Douglas's avatar

    Cyber security professional here -reliably determining when a computational artifact (file, etc.) was created is *hard*. This is sorta why…

  6. sahpa's avatar

    Agreed with the other commentator. It is extremely unlikely that Pangram’s success is due to its cheating by reading metadata.

  7. Deirdre Anne's avatar

2022 in review, 4th quarter: October, November, December

MOVING TO FRONT FROM DECEMBER 29, FOR THOSE WHO MAY HAVE MISSED IT DURING THE BREAK

October

Sleepwalking into Armageddon:  Russia, Ukraine, and nuclear weapons continued

Raz as a political philosopher

Is Wittgenstein truly a "hero" of philosophy?  Or can we do without his "wankings"?

Cedric Robinson's "Black [Anti-]Marxism"

The pernicious influence of fossil fuel money on climate research (and the role of outside money in philosophy)

A new "Creative Commons" license with some odd features

November

A philosophically substantial work on the history of Marxism?

Conference organizers may want to think twice before inviting Professor Carol Hay (U Mass/Lowell) to their event

Why did the Democrats do relatively well?  The Michigan experience

How Birkbeck senior management wrecked the finances of the university

New online and "open access" philosophy of physics journal

"Effective [sic] Altruism," Longtermism…and now the FTX crypto-currency disaster

The "sociology" of literary studies

December

Online, open access philosophy journals

"My Dinner with Kanye"

Leslie Green's remarks on the occasion of the memorial for his teacher Joseph Raz

Professor Hay is apparently unrepentant for her misconduct

A fake "Philosophical Readings" journal with a fake editorial board

Production problems at Oxford University Press

Harvard's new President

Philosophy is a low-citation field

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