ycosynot

It is not a plane, but a 3D cube. It is divided in 3x3x3 sub-cubes, from bottom to top, and front to back. That is 27 characters. You can multiply that number easily if you use another cube to shift/control into another 3D layer. Since you have to move only 1 centimeter to push a key down, it is more efficient than the traditional plane keyboard.

Classroom conflicts are so old, I think the system lets it happen at least subconsciously, for emotional reasons and the sake of tradition. Or maybe it's to teach emotional resilience unethically. It will never end if we ask for conscious acts of willpower.

There could be an algorithm which is in charge of classroom configuration, seat order, and analyzing where conflicts may arise according to visual cues or grades information, children interaction and such, and arrange the classrooms as needed. It doesn't mean "put the smart with the smart". The whole point is that the algorithm could be more subtle than what was tried.

It'd also protect sensitive teachers and put them with the right kids. They could still sit with specific friends, just the algorithm would confirm and reorganize. Like a sorting algorithm. They don't have to be watched all the time, it could be like 5% of the time, or the first week, just enough to gather information. Simply changing the line of sight of seats according to affinities (like the Okcupid score) is an obvious straightforward improvement.

Not only there'd be less violence, but there'd be more happiness, more performance, more relaxed teachers, ect... Just from not having it done randomly. I don't believe in the ability of children to form bonds judiciously, especially at classroom-scale. Even if the skill matters, it is up to debate where are the biggest benefits, and whether this is the place to learn it. Within 20 years, depending on the algorithm it might have an effect within society.

The school system is not solving it, so I am posting here to spread the idea a little. All adult conflicts come down from childhood. If you believe in the virtue of randomness, you can just add randomness to the algorithm. You can have as much chaos as you want.

The school system is like throwing a bunch of crabs in a box, and see what happens. It is primitive.

Imagine that here I could drop a music player or video or google maps or a chess game or direct access to a dropbox folder, embedded in the sourcing webpage, and you control it directly. It's safe because the music player can only play music, and such things. It is sandboxed as will, but the website doesn't control. It is full information sharing. Like more powerful links.

I have worked on such extension but I'm limited by the capabilities and security of how it implements extensions. I find it slightly enraging. I say it should be more than an extension, but a feature of internet, to be able to share anything, anywhere, and to manipulate the content at will.

More power to the user, it means less wall-gardening, and more awesome stuff. Wherever we can submit text and have it displayed, I should be able to submit standardized information tokens, and have it translated correctly into arbitrary interactive content.

The browser doesn't translate token-to-HTML, because then it'll be boring widgets and never get done, it only detects the tokens, and loads the content. It's like a HTML tag which interpretation is peer-to-peer customized. The user controls how the translating is done. More power to the user. It's a standard for cross-site datastream links.

I'm a little confused about the details, but I say we should be able to share anything, anywhere.

That is all. Goodbye