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Some Chinese universities are using AI detection tools to screen papers, but false positives force students to "dumb down" content or pay for rewriting services (Peiyue Wu/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/ai-detector-software-workaround/…

Chinese students are using AI to beat AI detectors
As Chinese universities crack down on AI use, some students report false positives — and a booming industry of work-around tools is emerging.

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I'm part of the Life's Booming podcast series this year, hosted by James Valentine. Martin Tobin and myself talk changing attitudes to funerals and death. Wherever you get yer podcasts, but here's Spotify. #GDEPAU #AskAnnetta

Matters of life and death - Dr Annetta Mallon & Martin Tobin
Life's Booming · Episode

"William Zani, one of the core programmers of the first BASIC compiler, tells the story of the demo of the DTSS system at the San Francisco AFIPS 1964 conference (minute 26:17), sending a BASIC program to from San Francisco to Hanover, New Hampshire over a telephone line, live in front of an audience, who (I quote) “went bananas”."

Dartmouth College
In August 2014, Dartmouth College published a video commemorating the 50th anniversary of the BASIC programming language, the subject of this month's Vidéothèque section. It features original footage from the 1960s and interviews of former students and team members, including Professor Thomas Kurtz, who was 85 years old at the time. But the heart and soul of the video is, without any doubt, Professor John Kemeny himself; not only his technical contributions, which were outstanding by every st…