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10 min
Priya Sharma
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1 week ago
A take-home pipeline with 1,180 submissions and no AI screening is a coin flip dressed up as a hiring process. Here's what the scores actually measure, how to combine them with similarity checks, and where the whole method quietly falls apart.
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15 min
Marcus Rodriguez
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1 week ago
A code similarity score is not a probability of cheating. It's a measurement of overlapping token fingerprints, and it can be high for honest reasons or low for dishonest ones. Here's what sits underneath the number, with worked Java examples and the thresholds that hold up when a student appeals.
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8 min
Marcus Rodriguez
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2 weeks ago
Most code originality problems arrive with an invoice attached, not a report card. Here is the six-step process I run on contracted codebases before the final payment clears, from contract language to the delivery gate that blocks a release tag.
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10 min
Alex Petrov
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2 weeks ago
Pasting from Stack Overflow is the most common form of web code plagiarism, and peer comparison tools like MOSS will never see it. Here's how token fingerprinting actually matches a submission to a 2013 answer, how to read a web match report without overreacting, and why "Stack Overflow is public domain" is the most expensive misconception in the room.
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12 min
Marcus Rodriguez
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2 weeks ago
A 71% similarity score means nothing on its own, but it has to survive a room full of people who want an answer. Here is the exact calibration workflow I use: normalization settings, cohort percentiles, tiered thresholds, and an evidence packet that holds up when a student appeals.
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8 min
Marcus Rodriguez
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2 weeks ago
Most departments escalate on a single number and regret it. Here is the five-step process I hand faculty who are sitting on a pile of flagged submissions and a Friday deadline, including the two steps that settle more cases than any detector.
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17 min
James Okafor
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2 weeks ago
Five generations of code similarity detection have each been beaten by a student with a text editor. This is the technical history of how detectors moved from byte comparison to tokens, fingerprints, syntax trees and learned vectors, and what that arc tells you about choosing a tool that can still find a match when the code has been renamed, refactored, or generated by a model.
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12 min
Dr. Sarah Chen
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2 weeks ago
A CS2 course with 412 students and eleven TAs ran peer similarity, web-source matching, and AI-generation scoring in one pass per assignment instead of three separate workflows. The interesting result wasn't the flag count. It was that the review meetings stopped arguing about whether a submission looked suspicious and started arguing about what the department's own AI policy actually permitted.
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12 min
Rachel Foster
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2 weeks ago
A department ran a web-source scan on 412 intro Python submissions and got 61 hits, 23 of which were noise. This is the eight-step workflow they built afterward, from normalizing LMS exports and budgeting GitHub's code search rate limit to ranking matches by token count instead of percentage and assembling an evidence packet that survives an appeal.
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13 min
Rachel Foster
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3 weeks ago
License detection spent twenty years matching strings against license texts and missing the code underneath them. The algorithms that fixed it came out of plagiarism research, not legal tech. A look at what changed after 2003, and what the AI boom reopened.
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15 min
Dr. Sarah Chen
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3 weeks ago
Running one scan and hoping it covers everything is how courses end up with both missed cases and false accusations. This walkthrough separates peer similarity, web provenance, and machine generation into three pipelines, then shows how to merge them into a ranked queue a TA can work through in an afternoon.
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12 min
Marcus Rodriguez
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3 weeks ago
I audited 1,847 programming submissions across three institutions over two terms. 3.3% were translations from another language, and automated similarity scoring caught exactly zero of them. Here is the method, the numbers, the tool comparison, and what actually surfaced the cases.