Moe

PhD in natural language processing, with years spent building NLP applications end to end. Moe works on text analysis: lexical and syntactic structure, and what separates machine-generated prose from human prose statistically. He has been experimenting with computational linguistics since the early days of NLTK, spaCy and WordNet, and still writes most of his tooling in Python.

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Articles by Moe

Split-screen graphic contrasting stiff, AI-flagged Japanese academic prose with the natural register a Japanese AI humanizer produces
AI Humanization

Japanese AI Humanizer for Academic Writing

Japanese academic writing runs on a single consistent register, and most AI-generated drafts break it within a paragraph. This post walks through the specific grammatical tells, how Japanese universities and detectors actually check for them, and what a Japanese AI humanizer needs to preserve along the way.

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Hindi AI humanizer rewriting an academic paragraph to sound natural in Hindi
AI Humanization

AI humanizer for Hindi

Most Hindi academic writing in India is actually produced in English, but Hindi-medium scholarship still faces its own AI-detection risks. This guide breaks down the calques and stiff openers that give away ChatGPT-drafted Hindi, what Indian and Nepali universities currently say about generative AI, and how a humanizer needs to preserve citations, terms, and register.

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Diagram illustrating token probability ai detection: a language model's next-token distribution turning into a log-likelihood score
AI Detection

Token Probability and Log-Likelihood in AI Detection

Perplexity gets the attention, but the arithmetic underneath it is token probability: what the model's distribution over the next word actually contains, why detection math runs in log space instead of raw probability, and how a string of per-token scores becomes one number.

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Table answering what do markers look for in an essay, broken down by argument, evidence, structure and presentation
Academic Writing

What Tutors Actually Mark Down For

Presentation is what students polish the night before a deadline. A published marking rubric says it is usually the narrowest of the categories that decide a grade. Here is where the weight actually sits, and why.

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Is burstiness still used by AI detectors? GPTZero's 2023 shift from a statistical formula to a trained classifier.
AI Detection

Do AI Detectors Still Rely on Perplexity and Burstiness?

GPTZero made perplexity and burstiness famous, then quietly retired both in autumn 2023 for a deep-learning classifier. This post traces what changed, what GPTZero and Turnitin actually document today, and why the two statistics still explain why machine text is detectable even though neither vendor computes them directly anymore.

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