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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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    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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Bradford from Rice to Toronto

Gwen Bradford (ethics), Associate Professor of Philosophy at Rice University, has accepted a tenured appointment as Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, effective July 2024.   Rice, as we have noted before, really has a singular eye for hiring and developing top junior talent, which makes them a frequent target for raids by higher ranked departments.

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