graecea

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Pre-Columbian transoceanic contact theories(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by graecea 5y ago|0 comments
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by graecea 5y ago
I was about to submit some objection but it turns out you've posted quite interesting links so I'm going to ponder that for a while. If I don't edit this post consider that you've successfully convinced me and changed my
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by graecea 5y ago
That's just an attempt to salvage meritocracy. The problem is that there is no single metric one could rigorously construct that encapsulates everything one needs for success, partly because 'success' isn't well-defined
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by graecea 5y ago
I never implied that, in fact I'm pretty noncommittal on the matter and would do away with the baccalaureat (or maturite, or whatever) entirely. 60 years ago a test was hard and most people failed it. Today it's easy and most peop
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by graecea 5y ago
The problem is that we're being sold the 'meritocracy' narrative in the academical and technical circles. You often see it in HN discussions about hiring decisions (reasoning involving the "top 1% programmers" witho
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by graecea 5y ago
On the other hand most people in the 50/60s would also fail the brevet (or baccalaureat for that matter). I can't speak for the math level but I do know that school in the 60s required you to learn every single prefecture and c
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by graecea 5y ago
Abilities are not normally distributed but power law distributed (a tiny elite of skilled people and a fat tail that represents the unskilled mass). This is one of the shortcomings of IQ (which is coerced into a normal distribution) and it
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by graecea 5y ago
If you are looking to learn Arabic but have always been scared by its perceived difficulty I cannot recommend language transfer enough: https://www.languagetransfer.org/arabic His courses are so amazing that I got intereste
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by graecea 5y ago
Preliminary version of the textbook: https://seumasjeltzz.github.io/LinguaeGraecaePerSeIllustrata... This is inspired from Lingua Latina per se illustrata , a monolingual textbook that does the same in Latin and is unanimo
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LinguaGraeceaPerSeIllustrata, a monolingual textbook to self-teach Ancient Greek(github.com)
2 points by graecea 5y ago|1 comments