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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…

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    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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Israel/Gaza links for December 4

Families of hostages demand meeting with Netanyahu, as Israel resumes bombing Gaza while hundreds are still held captive.

Now Israel is invading the South of Gaza–where are the people supposed to go?

Israel knew Hamas's attack plan last year, but ignored it.

Israel drawing up plan to assassinate Hamas leadership worldwide, which is what they probably should have done at the start (along with making a deal for the hostages) instead of the mass killings of civilians in Gaza.

Some civilians in Gaza wish they had been killed along with their families, given the horrible situation.

Another report from the ground in Gaza.

Another moral philosopher weighs in on Hamas and Gaza.

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