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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.              Stats app hiring halls              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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