hyperproficient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperproficient
form: most hyperproficient
Etymology: From hyper- + proficient.
Senses: examples: text: The process is thought to have begun some 3% billion years ago when the earliest life forms first arose in the hot, organic soup-like seas of our primitive planet. Insight into the fundamental mechanisms underlying the inheritance of biological diversity is a prerequisite for a fuller understanding of life itself. DNA, in its unique role as the purveyor of the genetic endowment of all living matter, has the delicately balanced function of serving as the source of hereditary stability and, at the same time, as the source of the variability needed for the long-term population fitness of any species. Clearly, maximal stability of the genetic material would be beneficial to a well-adapted population of organisms in a stable environment; on the other hand, the opportunity to select from a preexisting bank of mutations would be advantageous to that same population when confronted with rapidly shifting environmental conditions. The relative emphasis which an organism places at any given time on these two opposing roles of DNA—constancy and change—is itself under genetic control since bacterial mutants have been isolated (e.g. mutators or antimutators, and recombination deficient or -hyperproficient mutants) which are either more or less genetically stable than the wild-type.
ref: 1984, Andre Hurst, Anwar Nasim, Repairable Lessons in Microorganisms, Academic Press, →ISBN Invalid ISBN, page 41:
text: Both CORs mentioned Lieutenant General (R) Brown's concept of a three step training strategy which has been published as part of a U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) memorandum (U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, 1998) , The three steps are: (1) learn the basics (e.g., warfighting skills like gunnery); (2) become proficient in the tasks, conditions, and standards of needed hardware and software; and (3) develop highly adaptive hyperproficient individuals, small teams, and units. Some of the SST key developers along with some others, in discussing the three step strategy, expressed opinions that even completing step 2 training to the point where they are able to enter step 3 training would be very difficult in most cases.
ref: 2000, Dorothy L. Finley and Therodore M. Shlechter, Combined Arms Structured Simulation-Based Training Programs: Reflections of Key Developers, Consortium Research Fellows Program, U. S. Army Research Institute, Western Kentucky University, page 30:
text: In all cases, the focus is on the extra benefits a hyperproficient agent can derive from taking advantage of a situation. As stated before, the SAW concept and its measurement were initially developed in the context of explaining operator or pilot mistakes that were otherwise hard to understand. A relative consensus emerged about SAW’s being a helpful concept, notably to explain errors in complex and dynamic technological environments. It is only recently, inspired by the U.S. Twenty-First Army, that research on SAW has been seen as a major contributor to strategic advantages on the battlefield. For the infantry, the focus of SAW is not so much error reduction but obtaining strategic advantage in the field.
ref: 2007, Eloi Bosse, Concepts, Models, and Tools for Information Fusion, Artech House, →ISBN, page 29:
text: But it wouldn't work any other way. If we wanted to be effective snipers in an operational capacity, we had to be alert and observational at all times. That was the whole point. We couldn't just memorize a list here and a list there and expect to become hyperproficient with our memory. Our brains needed to be trained to study our surroundings ceaselessly on a borderline-subconscious level.
ref: 2017-2018, Jason Degaldo, Bounty Hunter 4/3: From the Bronx to Marine Scout niper, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 100:
text: When you get to your job, some people will assume you got it because of affirmative action or diversity initiatives. At any moment, you may be assumed to be intellectually below average and, at the same time, hyperproficient in sports, dancing and sex.
ref: 2022 November 11, Touré, “Why ‘Atlanta’ Is the Blackest Show Ever”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Extraordinarily proficient; superproficient.