christudor

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by christudor 7y ago
"The old educational system is outmoded; that of learning from a person at the front and then regurgitating what they have told you in order to prove you know it." I think most university tutors would find this an insulting carica
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by christudor 7y ago
It seems to me that the Persians were just as good at record-keeping as any relatively sophisticated ancient civilization. The Persepolis Fortification Archives, for example, contain about 20,000 records that deal with the movement of sever
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by christudor 7y ago
Google's latest reCAPTCHA is v3, which works behind the scenes to generate a 'trustworthiness' score for each user. There is no longer any button for the user to click. You're thinking of v2, I think.
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by christudor 7y ago
You can actually set the minimum score requirements to whatever you want. The default is 0.5, but there's nothing stopping you setting it to 0.0 and letting everyone through.
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by christudor 7y ago
Sexy startup office as a service is exactly what it is. The prices are eye-watering, however, and don’t seem to come down much with scale. (A three-person office is about three times the price of a one-person office – at least when I last
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by christudor 7y ago
Fair enough, let's leave it there. p.s. I don't actually have the ability to downvote comments, so that'll be someone else who's doing that.
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by christudor 7y ago
I may be mistaken but it looks like you haven’t read the book but you’re confident in assuming I’ve somehow misunderstood it! Here’s the relevant quote in full: “British economist Nicholas Kaldor had warned as early as March 1971 that the f
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by christudor 7y ago
This is not the view of Ashoka Mody in his recent book Eurotragedy.
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by christudor 7y ago
The big mistake the EU made was assuming: (i) that monetary union would foster political union, and (ii) the people of Europe actually wanted political union in the first place. I don't think either are true. I think we more or less ag
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by christudor 7y ago
"We don't care if you object and irrespective of your views, this project is going ahead." The EU seems to have done this for at least twenty-five years, the prime example being their stubborn insistence on monetary union des
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by christudor 7y ago
Tau Zero by Poul Anderson is an interesting little novel that touches on some of this stuff.
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by christudor 7y ago
Slightly off-topic, but how robust is Occam’s Razor as a principle for judging the likelihood of a theory being true?
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by christudor 8y ago
Something else that makes the B2C market difficult is the fact that the sign of a great educational video is one that you only need to watch once.
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by christudor 8y ago
This. One of the strangest things about the MOOC boom in 2012/13 was the fact that so much of what they were doing already existed. Taking a pre-existing paid-for product and giving it away for free is not innovation, especially when y
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by christudor 8y ago
Does Udacity have any brand value? Does anyone care that a course is a Udacity course as opposed to (e.g.) an edX or Coursera one?
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by christudor 8y ago
I can highly, highly recommend listening to John Rogers’ set of lectures on Paradise Lost, ideally as you’re reading through the poem (one book, one lecture). It was how I first read the poem and it massively enriched the experience: https
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by christudor 8y ago
Neat idea. Where did you source the poems from?
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by christudor 8y ago
The original point was that the Odyssey was "better than" the Iliad. Why does popularity come into that at all?
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by christudor 8y ago
I think you are mistaken to judge a 3,000+ year old poem by your own moral standards. I also think you need to pay closer attention to the text itself. You say that Odysseus "gets his men killed over and over due to his capricious, poi
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by christudor 8y ago
Not the OP, but surely one of the most pertinent moral positions of the Odyssey is the idea that justice will prevail: the good guy wins and gets the girl, the bad guys lose.
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by christudor 8y ago
"The Iliad simply hasn't exerted the same level of influence on storytelling." This is highly subjective. The influence of the Iliad on European literature, art, and culture has been absolutely colossal. Indeed, given that th
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by christudor 8y ago
Most of the stories you mention in relation to the Iliad don't actually appear in the Iliad, you know. Also, if anything can be described as "a collection of stories", it strikes me that Books 9-12 of the Odyssey (Odysseus&#x
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by christudor 8y ago
Totally agree with this. I think War Music is one of the greatest ‘translations’ of an ancient work ever written.
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by christudor 8y ago
These are essentially holy scripture in Hindu culture, aren’t they? The Bhagavid Gita is taken from the Mahabharata, for example...
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by christudor 8y ago
I wish reviewers would stop latching on to the concept of “relevance” when describing the merits of an ancient text. Such a strangely utilitarian way of thinking about literature, as if its value lies in what it can do for us today. Also, t
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by christudor 8y ago
I kind of agree with this. In fact, I often wonder how much the wisdom of age is actually just old people's preferences.
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by christudor 8y ago
MASSOLIT.IO | London, UK | Content Developer | Full-Time | Onsite # About MASSOLIT MASSOLIT ( https://www.massolit.io ) is a fast-growing, funded education technology start-up based in London, UK. We work with university academics
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by christudor 8y ago
How expensive was the office? How much money was the start-up making at the time?
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by christudor 8y ago
What kind of stuff do you listen to at the moment? Where do you go to find these kind of talks?
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by christudor 8y ago
This looks really interesting ... but I'm not going to download some random PDF when you could just have easily put the information directly on the site.

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