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   Treon Verdery to All   
   .5b Ideas command line at educational so   
   05 Sep 22 19:50:37   
   
   From: treon3verdery@gmail.com   
      
   I feel as if when you know command line instead of using the mouse you have   
   more extensible flexible influence over what happens.   
    A person who can type their own formulas into a spreadsheet just seems like   
   they can do more, more efficiently than using a mouse and pull down menus or   
   other various browser forms   
   So then learning how to learn could be improved with making low    
   rememberability things like 7th grade sentence diagramming into educational   
   powerhouses of practicing and liking command line. There is a chance this will   
   mainly appeal to the upper third    
   of students but giving as many people as possible more deeply effective   
   computer skills is beneficial.    
   It might work like this: keystroke: highlight all nouns simultaneously.   
   Keystroke: highlight all adjectives with a different color, find, or if you   
   are hardcore. Regex where the two are next to each other, pipe those to a   
   file. Homework accomplished!    
   This makes command line fluency look and feel great compared with using a   
   mouse to highlight each noun manually, a gradual process. Students can be   
   encouraged to teach each other command line, or perhaps just as good,   
   educational software can teach    
   command line fluency. When learning how to learn the 1/3 of the class that   
   picks this up are likelier to become power users of whatever software they   
   meet and use as adults, benefitting their actual ability as well as their   
   career success.   
      
   OK, so make it so all students have command line practice, just leave the   
   mouse option available on the work for the casual or unfocused.   
      
   .5b Technology transfer and accelerating the generation of new companies in   
   new fields. My perception is that although money is attracted to high or   
   highest return the wide range of companies and products suggest another driver   
   at work; it is possible    
   that some seeds of new companies come from the reapplication of previously   
   gained knowledge. A programmer might write an app rather than switch to high   
   return investment banking. There is a psychological test called the big five   
   and one area of it is "   
   openness to experience" so it is imaginable that 90th percentile openness   
   would be attracted to highest financial return but the10% least open would do   
   what they already know, and the middle would combine approaches. Some actual   
   quantified measured    
   version of this could be used to predict and/or stimulate new company, and new   
   technology growth. Yay! That way there can be more kinds of beneficial things   
   as well as new beneficial things.    
   A technology form that utilizes this perspective on how new companies and   
   products come into being is: a new financial allure page area at applied for   
   patents. Basically the inventor makes starting capital and continuing value   
   financial projections that    
   preferably realistically present the value of the invention. A standard xml   
   ready form would be preferred although people could write anything they like   
   at the financial allure page. The standard form could have slots for data and   
   projections, rather    
   like an XML version of an annual report.(with different stuff). This XML of   
   projected financials heightens the likeliness of company formation and product   
   creation with outside capital. For example when interest rates go down a   
   percent some consultant's    
   software can sift one million patents' financial allure pages for a newly   
   calculated ROI at a particular forecast capital risk, this then results in   
   hundreds of new investments which become companies. That is because, among   
   some, capital flows towards    
   the highest return. Also this could benefit not only the US and Europe but   
   also China as the XML of all new Chinese ideas could be bulk processed for   
   what might be rather like a mutual fund with a predicted return. The only   
   annoying part is that I have    
   read venture capitalists like to invest on a people basis rather than a   
   technology basis. Still, if the financial models accurately predict return   
   from the XML financial allure patents perhaps Quant's will direct funding to it   
   This benefits the creation of new actual things from basic research;   
   universities would always automatically make financial allure XML pages on   
   their patents. I strongly value basic scientific research and note this   
   maintains a way to, as usual, publish    
   without hype in peer reviewed journals while still catalyzing the application   
   of a patent to make actual new beneficial things.   
      
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