https://thevis.us/ Recent content in vision on the visus Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Do What the Fuck You Want to Public License Mon, 22 Feb 2021 09:30:00 -0800 https://thevis.us/scriptio/derivative/ Mon, 22 Feb 2021 01:00:00 -0800 https://thevis.us/scriptio/derivative/ in math The derivative measures the sensitivity to change of the function value (output value) with respect to a change in its argument (input value). For example, the derivative of the position of a moving object with respect to time is the object’s velocity: this measures how quickly the position of the object changes when time advances. The process of finding a derivative is called differentiation. The reverse process is called antidifferentiation. https://thevis.us/scriptio/psyche/ Mon, 22 Feb 2021 02:00:00 -0800 https://thevis.us/scriptio/psyche/ the totality of the human mind, conscious and unconscious The Greek word ψυχή (psyche) was “life” in the sense of “breath”, formed from the verb ψύχω (psycho, “to blow”). Soul is sometimes used synonymously, especially in older texts, and originates from the Hellenistic personification of the soul as female. The allegory of the beautiful mortal woman Psyche, her complicated marriage to Eros, and her subsequent immortalization is told in the Metamorphoses of Apuleius. https://thevis.us/persona/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://thevis.us/persona/ I am visus « email » #span-d2f08491.cloaked-e-mail:before { content:attr(data-domain) "\0040" attr(data-user); unicode-bidi:bidi-override; direction:rtl; }    var scriptTag = document.getElementById("script-d2f08491"); var link = document.createElement("a"); var address = "mai".split('').reverse().join('') + "@" + "su.siveht".split('').reverse().join(''); link.href = "mailto" + ":" + address; link.innerText = address.split('?')[0]; scriptTag.parentElement.insertBefore(link, scriptTag.previousElementSibling); scriptTag.parentElement.removeChild(scriptTag.previousElementSibling) « code » my projects are primarily hosted on my gitea. find some things mirrored to my github account. « creative » v3s5s1y https://thevis.us/scriptio/paranoia/ Mon, 22 Feb 2021 03:00:00 -0800 https://thevis.us/scriptio/paranoia/ Is it paranoia to be concerned with my online privacy, the protection of my identity (my browsing history, my social connections, my purchases, etc)? Who in the world actually cares about me or what I am doing? Is that the point of securing privacy? Protection from snoopers, investigators, analyzers… The individual is not important - rather, the collective assimilation and statistical analysis of behavior, so that it may be sold. https://thevis.us/scriptio/corruption/ Mon, 22 Feb 2021 04:00:00 -0800 https://thevis.us/scriptio/corruption/ There’s a French proverb: He who wants to harm his dog, accuses it of having rabies. or Qui veut noyer son chien l’accuse de la rage. Famously, this appeared in Moliere’s play, Les Femmes Savants, when Martine grumbles, “Give a dog a bad name and hang him.” Less famously, she subsequently quips: Service is no inheritance. Jonathan Swift would lyricize this “true saying” about three decades later. https://thevis.us/anima/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://thevis.us/anima/ confront the unconscious beneath the shadow of the self https://thevis.us/scriptio/diversity/ Mon, 22 Feb 2021 05:00:00 -0800 https://thevis.us/scriptio/diversity/ diversity within regularity We all roughly share the same genes - the human genome. Yet, the brain’s shape and organization develop differently depending on whether it’s reared in a culture based on trust or distrust. Culture and brain are entertwined. Goedel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid plasticity and rigidity As we assimilate into a (sub-)culture, we learn to notice and focus on the atypical. That is to say, we notice difference more than sameness; our brains habituate and automate responses to familiar stimulations. https://thevis.us/opifex/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://thevis.us/opifex/ barren frontier abandoned but not lost open for adventure https://thevis.us/scriptio/silence/ Mon, 22 Feb 2021 06:00:00 -0800 https://thevis.us/scriptio/silence/ John Cage, on his 4'33": “They missed the point. There’s no such thing as silence. What they thought was silence, because they didn’t know how to listen, was full of accidental sounds. You could hear the wind stirring outside during the first movement. During the second, raindrops began pattering the roof, and during the third the people themselves made all kinds of interesting sounds as they talked or walked out. https://thevis.us/prosapia/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://thevis.us/prosapia/ adapting and thriving FAMPDX During a vacation to Costa Rica in spring 2018, I inexplicably contracted bacterial meningitis. Within 24 hours of showing symptoms, I was admitted to an ICU in San Jose, verging on the brink of death. When I eventually emerged from the abyss of comatose existence, utterly amnesiac and oblivious to the duress my body endured whilst I was insentient, my life had been forever changed. https://thevis.us/visus/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://thevis.us/visus/ photons hitting the retina https://thevis.us/scriptio/splendor/ Mon, 22 Feb 2021 12:00:00 -0800 https://thevis.us/scriptio/splendor/ “All infants are born in a state of psychedelic splendor similar to an acid trip.” (Daniel Levitin, FRSC, James McGill Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience) https://thevis.us/scriptio/comedy/ Mon, 22 Feb 2021 12:14:34 +0600 https://thevis.us/scriptio/comedy/ “Life is a tragedy to those who feel and a comedy to those who think.” Moliere