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Re:On the Closing of 42 Silicon Valley from 42 co-founder Kw... by egypturnash on Sunday June 26, 2022 @12:25PM (#31885324)
I opened the campus with Gaetan in 2016, and I still remember the first day of the first piscine.

The first... what? Fishes?

Wikipedia tells me that "piscene" means:

Piscine: pertaining to fish.

It is also a French noun meaning "swimming pool"; see La Piscine (disambiguation).

The Latin word piscina (or sacrarium) denotes a shallow basin placed near the altar of a church.

None of these make sense in the context of its later use ("...we started the first cohort with around 300 students, and grew to just over 1,000 over the next 18 months with another 1,000 in the pipeline for future piscines..."). It seems to be used as a vague synonym for "cohort"?

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Re:On the Closing of 42 Silicon Valley from 42 co-founder Kw... by korfuri on Sunday June 26, 2022 @12:35PM (#31885411)
That's a 42-specific term referring to the intensive training slash selection period at the beginning of their cursus.
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Re:On the Closing of 42 Silicon Valley from 42 co-founder Kw... by Fiahil on Sunday June 26, 2022 @04:06PM (#31887449)
You can trust Korfuri's explanation because he has some experience with Piscines ;)

Hello there !

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Re:On the Closing of 42 Silicon Valley from 42 co-founder Kw... by egypturnash on Sunday June 26, 2022 @10:07PM (#31889892)
"Cursus"?
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Re:On the Closing of 42 Silicon Valley from 42 co-founder Kw... by bombela on Sunday June 26, 2022 @01:01PM (#31885645)
Piscine in French == Swimming pool in English.

This choice of word stands for the fact that you are intensively immersed in it.

A more American English translation would be boot-camp.

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Re:On the Closing of 42 Silicon Valley from 42 co-founder Kw... by Nextgrid on Sunday June 26, 2022 @01:25PM (#31885889)
Even in French it doesn't actually make sense.
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