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Theory of Mind

 Theory of mind allows us to guess what others are thinking. But without enough context or feedback, it often self-reinforces theories and assign more and more certainty on them. In addition to us treating our guesses of what others are thinking as real, we also try to manipulate others to get them to do what we want them to do.  These theories, made-up meanings, are troublesome when they are hallucinated from small details. False theories would sometimes invite a chain of reactions that we otherwise wouldn't do. The false theories temporarily becomes part of us, and it defines us in that moment. Even when we meet someone everyday, we can still hold on to false theories. Normally, the reason the theory stays because most interactions couldn't fully invalidate it. And in a small form of evolution, some false theories gets to stay even though they are baseless. Theory of mind comes from a more general behavior. It is to assign meaning to things, whether they had a meaning behind...
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Scientific Calculators should shape like a laptop

There are too many keys, too many functions, too many equations, too many constants. We need more inputs and more intuitive formfactor. We need better tools to solve equations "by hand", yet be assisted by software at the same time. The qwerty layout gives too many keys not used for equations. Whiteboards are too one-topic limited. Graphing calculators don't have enough keys, not enough space to categorize the keys, and keys compete for space with the screen. We need a standard keyboard layout for math, and forget the qwerty (in this case). No, Wolfram, Matlab, MathCAD, and python are not sufficient.
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