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A pangram, or holoalphabetic sentence, phrase, or word, uses every letter of a given alphabet at least once. The Pangram AI detection tool from Pangram Labs on the other hand identifies AI-generated content with high accuracy. Pangram's detection model takes a comprehensive view of a document and uses a deep-learning based detector that synthesizes millions of signals about a particular text.  From its extensive research it has identified nine patterns that occur frequently - Markdown formatting inserted into plain text contexts AI Phrases like "delve into" that appear far more often in AI-generated text Overuse of em dashes where human writers typically would not Bullet lists used to organize information systematically Triads like "past, present and future", grouping ideas in threes, a common AI rhetorical pattern "Not just X but Y" type of word choices and constructions common in AI writing - the best-known tic of AI writing  called "con...

This Week I Learned -  *  arXiv offers HTML papers alongside the existing PDF to improve accessibility . * " Students need to learn how to work with AI, recognize weak output, think through choices, test results and decide what is worth doing. I described my own approach as “delegate maximally”. Instead of keeping a fixed list of AI-proof skills, keep giving AI everything it might be able to do. Whatever remains is the human role for now. " - S Anand * " The reason I dislike this emphasis on term “LLM Visualization” or “Claude Viz” or even “Agentic Viz” is the focus on the tool. No one goes out and says “Excel Viz” // “PowerPoint Viz” // “Figma Viz”. The tool is there to augment the human and has never been the important part.  The craft and skill of the  human using the tool is what we should acknowledge and celebrate. " - Amit Kapoor * Draw with Data by Schubert De Abreu   * Bharat Atlas is a lightweight open-source visualiser for India administrative boundar...