The Royal Companion was a trim line name for Royal portables in the 40s and 50s along with variations like the Aristocrat and the Quiet De Luxe. For some of its life it's essentially a cheaper Quiet De Luxe which may be missing features like a tabulator, Magic Margins, card fingers, or a touch control. You'd have to cross check the manual and the typewriter database to see how yours may differ from the QDL at the time it was made. Often it was a $5-10 price differential at the time for the difference in features, but with inflation this would be the equivalent of $140 now.

You could essentially use the list of QDL users from Polt's site and say that they all used a typewriter similar to your Companion. (Depending on the photos and angles, some of the listed Quiet De Luxe users may have really been using either a Companion or an Aristocrat, but it's incredibly difficult to discern unless you can see the specific feature differences between them.)

See also: - https://boffosocko.com/2024/06/25/users-of-the-early-henry-dreyfuss-royal-quiet-de-luxe-portable-typewriters/<br /> - https://typewriterdatabase.com/royal.72.typewriter-serial-number-database<br /> - https://typewriterdatabase.com/Royal.Companion.72.bmys - Manuals at: https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/tw-manuals.html

Reply to u/chocolate-sheep at https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1wi0jd6/writers_using_royal_companions/

reply to James Grooms at https://typewriterdatabase.com/show.21794.typewriter

Notes on differentiating the Underwood SS/Rhythm Touch, SX-50, SX-100, and SX-150

How was it that you identified your model here as an SX-50? Are there ads/photos/manuals for an SX-50?

The SX-100 ads you show seem to have a similar 5 stripes of chrome on the side which is similar to the previous SS/Rhythm Touch Models, but this chrome detailing seems to be missing from your SX-50 as well as the SX-150 advertisement.

Your SX-50 exemplar and the SX-150 advertisements also seem to have/show vertical touch adjustment and ribbon selector switches while the SS/Rhythm Touch and the ad for the SX-100 have horizontal sliders for the touch adjustment and a vertical ribbon selector.

The main page of the database mentions an SX-50 and an SX-150 in July of 1953, but doesn't have a corresponding mention of an SX-100. It reads: "Oct. 1953: Model SX 150, SX 50 started (7500000)"

Polt's site has an explicit manual for the SX-150 which may help to differentiate on both form and functionality: https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/Underwood150.pdf though there are no corresponding manuals for a 50 or a 100.

This Tumbr identifies Sean Connery's machine in Finding Forrester as an SX-100: https://www.tumblr.com/typewriterspotting/16181699692/spotted-in-finding-forrester-2000-forrester-and <br /> Here's an extended clip from the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juko0sAndsA <br /> and some still photos of it from Robert Messenger's site: https://oztypewriter.blogspot.com/search?q=finding+forrester <br /> Given the appearance in the film, it might actually be an SS/Rhythm Touch, but it's difficult to distinguish this as well without a clear view of the front.

The database still seems to have empty landing pages for the:<br /> - SX-50: https://typewriterdatabase.com/Underwood.SX-50.4.bmys <br /> - SX-50 11\": https://typewriterdatabase.com/Underwood.SX-50+11%22.4.bmys - SX-100: https://typewriterdatabase.com/Underwood.SX-100.4.bmys <br /> - SX-150: https://typewriterdatabase.com/Underwood.SX-150.4.bmys <br /> Presumably they existed previously, but without clear delineations of features/changes over time and were concatenated into the SX page?

Additionally, I'm noticing that some of the SX exemplars at the bottom of the page at https://typewriterdatabase.com/Underwood.SX.4.bmys are really badged as Underwood Golden Touches!

via Ted Munk at https://typewritersandbeer.wordpress.com/2020/02/24/silver-seiko-speedwriter-7200-and-stone-ruination-2-0/#comment-95

这一观点提出了通过语法差异来区分不同类型的数据输入，这是科学家AI模型设计的关键创新点，有助于模型区分人类陈述与事实真相。

大多数人认为AI系统应追求统一和一致的内部分工，但作者提出采用角色分化的提案者/执行者/检查者/对抗者系统来减少相关错误，这与当前AI系统设计中的整合趋势相悖，具有反直觉性。

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for - definition - wokism - a return to group collectivism that suppresses individual differentiation - from - P2P Foundation Wiki - Somewheres, Nowheres and Everywheres - Michel Bauwens, 2022

interrogate - Do more research on this definition of Wokism - from - P2P Foundation Wiki - Somewheres, Nowheres and Everywheres - Michel Bauwens, 2022

for - Michael Lewis - child psychology - stages of self / other differentiation and self recognition

for - baby - self / other differentiation - individuation

9/8g The card index technique is based on the experience that one cannot think without writing – at least not in demanding, selectively accessing memory-based contexts.

This also means that one cannot think without making allowances for differences.

I like this slightly more differentiated instantiation for thinking better than Ahren's assertion that one can't think without writing. Luhmann qualifies it over and above Ahrens who elides meaning if this was the source he may have been tangentially referencing. (Was it an explicit reference? check...)

Grabe, Mark. “Student and Professional Note-Taking.” Substack newsletter. Mark’s Substack (blog), November 10, 2023. https://markgrabe.substack.com/p/student-and-professional-note-taking?publication_id=1857743&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=77i35.

Educator Mark Grabe looks at some different forms of note taking with respect to learning compared lightly with note taking for productivity or knowledge management purposes.

Note taking for: - learning / sensemaking - personal knowledge management - productivity / projects - thesis creation/writing/other creative output (music, dance, etc.)

Not taken into account here is the diversity of cognitive abilities, extent of practice (those who've practiced at note taking for longer are likely to be better at it), or even neurodiversity, which becomes an additional layer (potentially noise) on top of the research methodologies.

Automatic differentiation is a technique in numerical analysis. That's why Real Analysis is an important Mathematics area that should be studied if one wants to go into AI research.

Villanueva, Cynthia, Stevi Ibonie, Emily Jensen, Lucca Eloy, Jordi Quoidbach, Angela Bryan, Sidney D’Mello, and June Gruber. ‘Emotion Differentiation and Bipolar Risk in Emerging Adults Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic’. PsyArXiv, 19 February 2022. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/xya43.

Shan, B., Broza, Y. Y., Li, W., Wang, Y., Wu, S., Liu, Z., Wang, J., Gui, S., Wang, L., Zhang, Z., Liu, W., Zhou, S., Jin, W., Zhang, Q., Hu, D., Lin, L., Zhang, Q., Li, W., Wang, J., … Haick, H. (2020). Multiplexed Nanomaterial-Based Sensor Array for Detection of COVID-19 in Exhaled Breath. ACS Nano. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.0c05657

A tool worth looking at.

This article studies the impact of external differentiation and vocational orientation of lower and upper in secondary education. Hard Read for sure. The age range for participants is 30-44 year old's in 18 countries. The results are what you would expect..

Universal design for learning (UDL) is the topic of focus for this webinar hosted by Digital Promise. Multiple experts discuss UDL for adult learners and strategies for UDL. Rating: 6/10

Comparison of secondary education systems

Reinventing higher education is essential for diverse learners. A study in 2016 found that more than half of higher education students are "nontraditional students." Meaning they need special accommodations. One essential accommodation of online learning is that students can watch or reread content multiple times if needed. This is in contrast to a traditional classroom where the lecture can only be heard once. Also, while text only information is not for everyone, it is still essential to blind students. But, alternatives such as slide shows must also be present. To add in more technology one must involve administration, staff and faculty before jumping in too quickly.

Rating 6/10

As teachers, we must be able to think on the fly and change the direction of the lesson if students are not understanding the information we are teaching them. When we lesson plan, we try to make sure that all the students in our class are learning the information. Sometimes it doesn't work out as planned, so we have to be ready for any type of mishap or misunderstanding.

Multiple intelligences