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4 results for “burstiness”

Lessons · 3
  1. Lesson

    False positives: when a detector is wrong

    Three groups carry most of the false positives. The first is non-native English speakers — a [Stanford-led study published in Patterns...

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  2. Lesson

    How do AI detectors work?

    Burstiness measures variation in sentence length and complexity. People write in bursts — a long, winding sentence, then a short one. Models, left alone, tend to produce sentences of strikingly...

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  3. Lesson

    What makes writing sound human

    Read your draft out loud. If you find yourself taking the same length of breath at every full stop, that's the problem to fix — not perplexity, not burstiness, the breath. Human writers vary sentence...

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    Burstiness

    The variation in sentence length and complexity across a passage. Human writing is bursty — long sentences next to short ones; unedited model output is often uniform. Low burstiness is treated as an...