How I reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back keystrokes (2014)
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How I reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back keystrokes (2014)
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Re: How I reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back keystrokes (2014)
#2(2014) should be added to the title.
There was some previous discussion about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8562483
Re: How I reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back keystrokes (2014)
#3That would make for a hell of an anti-plagiarism tool. If you were a teacher and took 30 essays written in gDocs, threw them into the change timeline that he built, the copy/pasted ones would hugely stick out. It would even catch the folks that put a paid/plagiarized essay up on one screen and type it out again given all the natural backspacing and editing.
Re: How I reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back keystrokes (2014)
#4That would make for a hell of an anti-plagiarism tool. If you were a teacher and took 30 essays written in gDocs, threw them into the change timeline that he built, the copy/pasted ones would hugely stick out. It would even catch the folks that put a paid/plagiarized essay up on one screen and type it out again given all the natural backspacing and editing.
It falls apart if someone makes the document in any other tool and then pastes it on gDocs.
Unless you make it a requirement to do the entire thing on that platform...
Re: How I reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back keystrokes (2014)
#5That would make for a hell of an anti-plagiarism tool. If you were a teacher and took 30 essays written in gDocs, threw them into the change timeline that he built, the copy/pasted ones would hugely stick out. It would even catch the folks that put a paid/plagiarized essay up on one screen and type it out again given all the natural backspacing and editing.
I was thinking along the same lines. One of the ways I saw paid essays work is that someone would buy the item and then tweak the phrasing of sentences and choice of words to make it a little more unique and tune it for the target level. It tends to obfuscate the plagiarism and makes it fit the style of the purchaser.
This tool even blows that out of the water.
I wonder how long before some groups recommend/require something like this to provide evidence of originality.
Re: How I reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back keystrokes (2014)
#6Are there any machine learning applications on these play-back time-series ?
Re: How I reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back keystrokes (2014)
#7Kudos to the OP and Author - One of the best posts this year. The writing, samples, typography, everything about this was damned good - all that effort! Now I can make the drive to work with something to think about :)
Re: How I reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back keystrokes (2014)
#8That would make for a hell of an anti-plagiarism tool. If you were a teacher and took 30 essays written in gDocs, threw them into the change timeline that he built, the copy/pasted ones would hugely stick out. It would even catch the folks that put a paid/plagiarized essay up on one screen and type it out again given all the natural backspacing and editing.
It falls apart if someone makes the document in any other tool and then pastes it on gDocs. Unless you make it a requirement to do the entire thing on that platform...
Yeah, you'd have to, but gMail/gDocs is pretty prevalent. I know a bunch of schools already use it for their email/office suite so it wouldn't be too hard to make that requirement. I really like it because it's grabbing metadata out of something people already use rather than having them use some horrible web app from the 90's that was contracted out by a now defunct company.
Re: How I reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back keystrokes (2014)
#9That would make for a hell of an anti-plagiarism tool. If you were a teacher and took 30 essays written in gDocs, threw them into the change timeline that he built, the copy/pasted ones would hugely stick out. It would even catch the folks that put a paid/plagiarized essay up on one screen and type it out again given all the natural backspacing and editing.
I was thinking along the same lines. One of the ways I saw paid essays work is that someone would buy the item and then tweak the phrasing of sentences and choice of words to make it a little more unique and tune it for the target level. It tends to obfuscate the plagiarism and makes it fit the style of the purchaser. This tool even blows that out of the water. I wonder how long before some groups recommend/require s…
I once had a friend who would put essays into Google Translate, translate to French, then that to Spanish, then back to English - then manually fix the syntax, etc. People will go to great lengths.
Re: How I reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back keystrokes (2014)
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
It falls apart if someone makes the document in any other tool and then pastes it on gDocs. Unless you make it a requirement to do the entire thing on that platform...
Yeah, you'd have to, but gMail/gDocs is pretty prevalent. I know a bunch of schools already use it for their email/office suite so it wouldn't be too hard to make that requirement. I really like it because it's grabbing metadata out of something people already use rather than having them use some horrible web app from the 90's that was contracted out by a now defunct company.
I am against making anything like this a "requirement." It defeats openness. And all for a stupid anti-cheating system. It's better just to go to turnitin.com