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		AnimalMuppet on May 1, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Outschooling in the Bay Area > My favorite was a visiting professor from MGU (Moscow State University) teaching 5th graders how to translate Babylonian Cuneiform, including how to infer meaning of writing that no spoken reference exists for. Not really useful right now, but is the very definition of cool when you are a kid! I've seen programming situations where something close to that would be useful (maintenance of very old code).

sologoub on May 1, 2015 [–]

I don't remember the methodology all that well, but I think it's applicable to basic cryptology and NLP-type problems as well.

For a 5th-grader though it was a great into to science.

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