#accuracy vs precision

[falling-apart-burrito]

Correct me if I'm wrong but

Precise vs accuracy

Precise is how close something is to AN exact point

Accuracy is how close something is to THE exact point

In the dartboard analogy, darts all appearing to converge around A point (not necessarily the bullseye) suggest high precision but low accuracy

Darts in a radius around the bulls eye but not very close together suggest low precision and high accuracy

Furthermore, increasingly precise meaning to converge onto a point would also explain why we call tools that are increasingly fine more precise tools. A smaller needle would be more precise than a larger needle because it can allow someone to converge on an exact point. If the user is using the needle correctly to put the needle at the CORRECT place, then it'll be an accurate job done (very close to THE point) by the person with a precise instrument (allows for the user to reach a very specific point)

Someone who consistently hits 2 cm to the left of their mark would be precise in hitting A point (consistently hitting an exact point, that point being 2cm from a point) but inaccurate (it's 2cm off)

[masthecles]

Randall Munroe is the best at explaining.

[husband-steve-cortez]

Like the adept profile in Andromeda is more unquestionably the ultimate biotic - on top of the incredible damage potential of the biotic echoes, you get bonuses to the radius and force of all your biotics, so even if you're playing with charge and nova you might be better off using the adept profile.

Conversely my typical backlash - annihilation - lance loadout would be much less brittle with the vanguard profile.

[stillmevalz]

I have absolutely no problem with ooc fanon content existing. I enjoy it too from time to time. What's bothersome is that some people forget what's fanon and what's not.

Example:

Fanon: Vash is submissive, helpless, and naive.

Canon: Vash is perceptive, a fighter & calculating.

Note that calculating in this context means he's all about precision and accuracy.

A great example in canon that showcases this beautifully is the Vash vs Knives fight in episode 12. While Vash is calculating and precise with his movements, Knives is erratic and impulsive.

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

What’s up with the ties between Sally & Eddie?

There are quite a few - to the point where I’m starting to suspect that they may be foils, or at least inherently tied together in the story.

First let's bring things back to the clocks. The “day” side has an obvious resemblance to Sally, like how the “night” side resembles Eddie. There’s not really much I can say here since we don’t know much more yet, and who knows if this has changed behind the scenes. But just think about that, the rarity of the color purple, night vs day, and the “monster”. Keep it in your head, I think it may be important. 

Also the fact that Eddie is the only one with a watch, but Sally’s face has an incredibly similar face on her door.

Obviously Sally has some sort of beef with Eddie, despite him being nothing but friendly and (to our knowledge) being undeserving of it. One thought I entertained was “maybe Sally is dismissive of him because he’s a worker,” but that holds zero water when you consider how perfectly friendly Sally was with Howdy (karen Sally debunked <3). The second thought I had was “maybe Sally senses the queer in Eddie and it intimidates her” - which would make sense if Sally is a lesbian like I suspect. Internalized homophobia, anyone? This holds up if Eddie is going to turn out to be - not open about himself, but comfortable in his skin in a way that, say, Frank isn’t. Which I have a feeling that will be the case, which would likely make Sally put on airs even more so than usual. 

Anyone else seeing a continuous trend of (social) masks and performances unfolding in the Neighborhood? I sure am.

But let’s talk about why I think they might be foils. They balance each other out in an interesting way, despite their only solid similarity being that Both will work/perform no matter the weather. They have a lot of closely related differences:

Eddie has been mentioned (and implied within the story so far) to have a deeper well of knowledge than he lets on, but acts humble about it. Sally has been mentioned (and implied) to know less than she portrays, but acts like a bit of a know-it-all - she pretends to know things that she doesn’t. 

Eddie’s role is about helping others at his own expense, while Sally’s is using others to reach fame. 

Eddie strives to connect with his Neighbors and is all about accuracy/precision. Sally is in her own little world and has proved to be more than willing to improvise / not think things through before acting.

Eddie is slow to anger, and Sally is easily irritated. 

Selfless vs Selfish.

Night vs Day. 

And to put them in the Johari Window - i believe that Sally resides in the Blind Spot (known to others, not known to self), and Eddie resides in either the Facade (not known to others, known to self) OR the Unknown (not known to others, not known to self). Personally I’m starting to believe that Eddie may reside in both. 

It’s far too early to draw any real conclusions, and theorizing on all of this is difficult. I feel as though - as usual - we have puzzle pieces but no frame of reference for the way they fit together, what picture they build. And who knows, tomorrow’s update may shred this to ribbons, but I doubt it. 

One thought I had was that they’re in cahoots about something - it doesn’t have to be something malicious or some sort of secret plot, it could simply be something they both know and are trying to keep quiet about. Eddie is trying to connect with Sally since they have this in common, but Sally is actively putting distance between them to preserve their secret / plausible deniability. Do I actually believe this? Meh. I’m just throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks.

So current base thoughts: Sally is dismissive of Eddie either because he intimidates/scares her on an internalized level, or she’s actively trying to put distance between them for a currently unknown reason. There’s probably a secret third option I haven’t even considered!

[paper-mario-wiki]

Is there any way you can give us a rundown on your hud in tf2??? What's the purpose of knowing your speed or how much damage you do?

helps me understand my motion in a more practical sense. walking as pyro is a firm 300, but then i take out the powerjack it's 345. as i fall i see how quickly i gain momentum with gravity. when detonator jumping (or blast jumping in general) you can gauge your speed.

with damage its the same. you cant know how much damage you've done PRECISELY with a shotgun because the bullet spread varies drastically based on accuracy. however with a damage counter that info is revealed precisely, and being able to understand how much damage you've done to an enemy vs how much damage you have taken is an incredibly helpful tool for choosing when to push, defend, or retreat.

[fox-daddy]

The arcana as stolen memes again, again

Julian; the desire to disappear vs the desire to be held and wanted

~~~

Mc: what is the most complicated way to cook an egg?

Nadia without missing a beat: Atmospheric re-entry

Mc holding an egg:...well shit

~~~

Muriel: What if instead of stepping out of my comfort zone I step into an even comfier zone?

~~~

Lucio: huge fan of when my speech patterns rub off on people enjoy when that happens

Lucio: NEVERMIND, my mum just said skill issue to me

~~~

Mc: I wish I had the ability

Muriel:...to do what?

Mc:yeah

Muriel:...

Mc:...

~~~

Asra: I think we should have glowstick juice injected in our bones when we're born so if we break em there's a fun little surprise

Mc: whats the surpise?

Julian cutting in: blood poisoning

~~~

Lucio: if you step on a person's foot they open their mouths, just like trash cans.

Mc: trying not to encourage him by laughing*

~~~

Mc: one time Asra put a glass of milk on the table in front of me and I meant to ask them 'who's milk is this?' because I wasn't sure if it was for me or if they were putting it down on the table to go grab something else and I just stared down at the milk and said 'who's this?' and they turned around and without missing a beat said 'that's your new friend mr.milk' then we stared at each other for a solid twenty seconds before they asked if I was high.

~~~///~~~

(modern day arcana *not the au faking it*)

Nadia: the worst part about parallel parking is the witnesses

Mc: you know their are no witnesses if you're bad enough at parallel parking

~~~

Mc; those moments when straight people assume you're one of them and you feel like a gay secret agent

Nadia: lebionage

Portia:bi spy

Julian: it's an ace case

Asra: secret gaygent

~~~

Nadia: 'kobe' is for accuracy and precision while 'yeet' is for power and distance

Mc: I can turn this into dnd stats

Nadia:???

Mc:Kobe is dexterity, yeet is strength, oof is constitution, tea is intelligence, yolo is wisdom, and wig is charisma

~~~

Mc; You want to know one of my favorite facts? If you leave a hamster wheel out in the forest wild mice will come and run on it. That is one of my favourite facts.

Muriel:... bobcats and lynx's will sit in cardboard boxes abandoned in the forest. I asked Asra about it and they said 'cat's' while shrugging.

~~~

Mc; George Washington died in 1799, 15 years before the first dinosaur was classified. So therefore, Gorge Washington never knew about dinosaurs

Portia: Why does this make me so sad?

~~~

Nadia: if you add two pounds of sugar to literally one ton of concrete it will ruin the concrete and make it unable to set properly. Which is good to know if you want to resist something being built, French anarchists used this to resist prison construction in the 80's.

Portia: I'm just going to go ahead and take a note about this for purely educational purposes.

~~~

Julian: you got to be dunkin my doughnuts

Asra: you gotta be hutting my pizza

Portia: you gotta be mackin my donalds

Nadia: you're really innin my outs here, buddy. You're fivein my guys.

Lucio: ya whiting my castle. Ya darying my queen. Ya steaking my shake.

Mc: but are you belling my taco?

~~~///~~~

(ones with my oc's because why not)

Hunter: stuck in an elevator because Portia decided to jump?

Everyone minus Muriel and Julian: fucken mint

Hunter: Julian's had three panic attacks in ten minutes?

Everyone minus Muriel and Julian: Fucken mint

Hunter:Muriel hasn't said a thing since we got stuck?

Everyone minus Muriel and Julian: Fucken mint

Hunter: Lucio being immature and yelling the whole time?

Everyone minus Muriel and Julian: Fucken mint

Hunter: Asra has just been listening to music and trying to call Nadia to come get us?

Everyone minus Muriel and Julian: Fucken mint

Hunter: Kyle has to pee so bad he might get a bladder infection?

Everyone minus Muriel and Julian: Fucken mint

Hunter: Lucio's going to be the one we blame because we all hate his fucking guts

Everyone minus Muriel and Julian: Fucken mint

~~~

Hunter: I've got some kind of allergic reaction going on and my face is breaking out in a bad rash and Julian is freaking out and wants to take me to the hospital. Portia was like 'let's not make any rash decisions' and we high-fived and now Julian is yelling at both of us.

~~~

Hunter: someone will be like 'coca cola can remove rust from metal imagine what it's doing to your body' like psssh removing the rust obviously

Nadia: that's not how that works

Hunter: Yeah? while I don't have rust in my body so check mate

Nadia:

[four-loose-screws]

Helloooo... I hope I won't bother you asking this but I heard that in the jpn version of Veyle's diary it's precised she is the only of Alear's sister ?

It's no bother to me at all! The ally notebooks are proving to be one of the most fascinating cases to study in Engage - my guess is the localization team had to make a number of compromises to 'accuracy' of translation due to the limited space on each page.

So here's Veyle's first page, where we will find the answer to your question:

The Japanese sentence does indeed include 'yuiitsu', which decisively means 'one and only.' Immediately sparks some confusion, because we know Sombron had a lot of children, but the next word immediately clears that up - it's 'imouto' - younger sister. In Japanese, 'younger sister' and 'older sister' are each their own unique word (same for brother btw). So it doesn't take up any extra space in Japanese to specify older vs. younger, creating a tricky problem in English localization when the number of characters in a text box is limited.

That makes this make sense - Alear has Veyle as their one younger sister, and they can still have any number of older sisters.

Update 11/30: A couple of readers chimed in to point out that the game clearly states in Chapter 24 that Alear did indeed have at least one other younger sister, who was killed by Corrupted. So the ally page says "one and only" within the context of Alear's surviving siblings, who is only Veyle by the time the events of the Engage happen.

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There's also a few other things to note about Veyle's pages, while I am here. The information cut due to space limitation does not end with just this one case!

Link to JP notebook pages on the Pegasus Knight Wiki

Pg. 1:

The sentence about Veyle defeating her evil side was longer in Japanese: ソンブルの策略により敵対したが、(She was an enemy due to Sombron's scheme, but) ヴェイルの意志で悪しき己を撃破。(defeated her evil side by her own will.)

Pg. 2:

None, localization is a straightforward translation.

Pg. 3:

The Japanese further details that her Corrupted are very complex / advanced / intelligent compared to the standard zombie-like Corrupted: 【特技】精巧な異形兵を作ること ((Talents) Creating intelligent Corrupted Her background mentions that she was born in Gradlon, and was alone for the past 1,000 years. 【来歴】グラドロンの地で生を受け ((Background) Born in Gradlon,) 邪竜の御子たちの末妹として育つ。(raised the youngest of the Fell Dragon's children.) 母は優しき心を持つ魔竜族だった。(Her mother was a mage dragon with a kind heart.) 千年の時を孤独に過ごし、父親に (She spent 1,000 years alone, and her father) 駒として扱われ望まぬ戦を重ねたが、(made her fight against her wishes over and over again as his pawn, but) 善良な心を失うことはなかった。(she never once lost her pure heart.)

Pg. 4:

JP also describes her as shy: 遠慮がちだが本当は大の遊び好き。(She is shy, but also very playful.) And there was also more to the sentence about her wanting to be useful to people: 人の役に立つことを何よりも望み、(She wants to be useful to people more than anything, 困っている人は放っておけない。(cannot ignore a person in need.)

Pg. 5:

The JP line about the Pact Ring also mentions that she treats it as her most valuable amulet / charm, as she did with the dragonstone.

(I took a screenshot of the page on YouTube, due to it not being on Pegasus Knight.)

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Full English localization:

[chamerionwrites]

If you have ever learned and used a foreign language you've come across the scenario where you have to decide between strict grammatical correctness or sounding like a native speaker. Often you might make a different choice in a formal or academic setting vs one where you want to sound casual and colloquial. This isn't to say that learning the distinction is meaningless. It's to say that language is a communication technology, and people use different words and registers to communicate different things - often very deliberately and with quite a lot of precision if not strict literal accuracy.

All of which is to say that yes there are scenarios (many!) where careful nuance and accuracy in language is important, and yes it can be very fun to say stuff like "did you know a pepper is actually a berry"....but often when people choose less-precise and/or more-colloquial words or phrases, that is in fact a deliberate communication choice rather than a symptom of ignorance. Like I have a strong tendency towards hairsplitting pedantry myself so I fully understand the temptation, but listen. Arguably there is no such thing as a fish but sometimes you have to ask yourself whether you're in a biology classroom or standing on the bank of a river with a fishing rod. Botanically speaking a pepper is a fruit but you are still going to find it in the vegetable aisle at the grocery store, and if you bring people a jalapeño quiche after they ordered a berry pie a lot of them will be kind of annoyed. Well-intentioned attempts to drill down and refine a conversational point are fine and good, but if you are going to Well-Actually someone purely for the sake of it I think sometimes you first need to consider that they know perfectly well what they're saying and patronizing them about it just makes you seem willfully dense

[tiktaalic]

Hello! You seem like one of the few people with the right opinion in this fandom, so I hope you don't mind me sharing one with u, I'd really love your thoughts on it. Now there's the infamous ship poll (which I find useless and divisive btw) and I saw some w*ncesties saying to vote for them bcs they're fandom history, since they invented a/b/o fics. Now, i may be partial bcs I despise the genre with a passion (after all of this time I still can't decide whom it is the most offensive to), but... Is inventing a/b/o truly a merit? Something to take pride in? Sorry if you happen to like the genre, I swear I am pretty indifferent toward who reads/writes that, albeit I dislike it, it is just something I was thinking over.

MY thing. Is that they didn’t invent it. J2s invented it. Is there a large overlap between the two? Yes. But it was specifically a j2 thing that was a slow winding development of a culture in which people fought about the ethics of shipping jensen with his Real Life Dog vs Original Dog Character. This was all his fault. Not deans. And j2 was IN the bracket and no one was getting on their high horse THERE going Wow #triggered antis refuse to acknowledge that j2 really did make history JUST because it’s problematic .. Nobody said shit. Nobody voted in that thang. J2 went quietly into that good night. they pulled those arguments out for WINCEST. which didn’t even INVENT omegaverse. ACCURACY and PRECISION above all. I don’t have to lie about destiel to propagandize destiel. I don’t have to appropriate cockles lore to propagandize destiel. I just say hey remember when destiel did this thing in the show. Bangs gavel. My verdict.

[soaringwide]

Pick a Card readings - how I views them as a reader & the different perceptive skills used

So I wanted to talk a bit about my vision of the use of pick a card readings. I'm someone who makes them but I also consume them as a viewer. I wanted to combine both in a post but it's too damn long so this will be divided in two parts. Part 1, reader; Part 2, consumer.

Part 01 - From a reader's point of view

It's definitely quite interesting to work on because you start with *zero* context and preconception about the person, since you don't know who it is meant for precisely. So your interpretation of the cards and intuition are not short-circuited by your preconceptions about either what you know of the person, or the context they gave you.

This allows me to let myself go fully into creating a story in my head from what I see in the cards. I found myself being much more relaxed when doing these readings, because I'm not scared about being wrong about a person's life since I imagine that someone somewhere will find it resonates. I can even include multiple ''streams'' in my reading since, again, it's meant for different people. For example I might interpret a struggle in two different ways and include both in the readings, if both feel relevant. That doesn't mean I say whatever comes out of my head, I still need to chose what aspect of the card resonates and creates a coherent narrative with the other cards, but it clears the way for intuition to flow more freely.

What I discovered is that it is a good exercise to strengthen my intuition and allows me to feel more at ease with it because I don't try to hold it back so much.

It's also quite fascinating because it allows me to feel different types of energy quite strongly in a short time span.

For example, the feel of the energy (or vibe or whatever you want to call it) is not the same at all if I get a very spiritual pile vs one that talks about a love situation. The first one, I once remember feeling the weight of the message I was relaying, perhaps due to the spirits that came to answer the question, or perhaps due to the nature of the query. It was also a reading that left me quite tired and I had to take a nap after it because it was just sooo much (not negatively, just a lot). Whereas a love situation will feel more lighthearted or even bubbly at times and put me in a goofy mood.

But you also get different feelings even on the same topic. Like the vibe of Pile 1 vs Pile 2 can feel drastically different, without even having to look at the cards.

I find that both fascinating intellectually and to be a great exercise in shaping my psychic skills and reading accuracy. It's quite hard to put into words and I still have a lot to learn about that, but I can definitely tell the difference.

However, there's definitely a case here of two different types of perception in use, which I'm going to attempt to describe.

Broad Perception

One is what I call ''broad perception''. As the name suggest, this type of perceptive skill allows you to cast a broad net and gather information widely, without getting too much into individual details.

It's a way to be able to get messages from multiple sources at once, creating a big landscape that is quite blurry and lacks details.

It's very useful when you are doing pick a card readings when you can't focus on one single person or situation without making the message irrelevant for everyone else.

Precise Perception

The other is what I call ''precise perception'' and well I imagine you get the gist but it's when you're trying to gather details and really dive deep into a problem or situation.

It's great in personal readings, but even in pick a cards, it's useful when you need to give someone a confirmation that the reading is indeed for them, because it allows you to pick up details that they will recognize and allow them to be open to the message you're trying to relay.

Which one is best?

Most people rely more on one than the other, but, really, you need both.

If you're too broad, you never give enough details to the querent and you risk being too general. The reading might still resonates but you're missing the opportunity to pull out specific information.

If you're too precise, then you run the risk of missing out on the bigger picture and focusing too much on a tiny aspect of the problem without seeing how it relates to the rest.

So both should be used if you want to be efficient, which is a long ass process and requires a lot of time and effort, and is the reason why I like doing both pick a card and personal readings, either for people I know or randos on the internet.

But yeah to get back to pick a cards, I think it's a great way to strengthen your broad perception, while learning to be mindful of your use of the precise perception, because, again, you don't want to be too focused on one person but also still be giving enough confirmation details.

Part 2

[infosnack]

"Precision vs Accuracy" via xkcd.com

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

Why are birds considered dogs?

Because birds are dogs, duh. I'm not joking. It really is a common misconception that there are two different types of dog: the ones with four legs and fur (called "canines"), and the others with wings and feathers ("avians"). In reality all dogs have either type of appendage at some point in their lives — most young puppies have no feathering but they will grow it later as part of puberty. Similarly, many adult canine animals spend time living among the avian population when younger or during certain times of year. For example, many owners keep parakeets for companionship purposes; these might be used to bring babysitters into one's home if you aren't able to find an actual human sitter! (Weirdly enough, this is actually more popular than people think.)

In fact, most of our more familiar domesticated breeds were derived from wild canids which had contact with humans over long periods of time — after a while the ancestral relationship becomes difficult to discern because any physical trait could have been selected by both. This means it's hard to know where exactly your neighbor's goldfish-toothed dog came from, let alone whether he was originally yellow or chocolate brown.

However, we do have more reliable information on other animals such as turkeys and horses, whose ancestors didn't live around us until recently. Both were developed through selective breeding based on specific traits like aggressiveness and stamina, so even though they don't look much like wolves anymore they still share important genetic similarities. Aside from hair coloration, bird species resemble each other less closely than horse or cow varieties despite being closely related. The reason for this difference isn't known yet, but it probably has something to do with how relatively recently humans began selecting them. One possible scenario involves food scarcity in certain parts of Europe leading to farmers having to feed livestock whatever edible plant matter they found nearby rather than just keeping the plants themselves growing. There wasn't time for domesticated versions of many plants to evolve, since rapid diversification would have meant losing valuable nutrients before anyone got a chance to notice what made the best pig fodder, etc., while cultivating crops allowed for greater control over the diet. Therefore birds emerged as useful scavengers who could eat anything without needing training. They also turned out to make good guard animals — even predators like hawks and falcons will display territorial behavior towards potential competitors — although owls seem to take offense at this. Overall, the two groups interbred quite frequently, so birds are mostly descended from domesticated canines and vice versa. If you looked carefully you'd see evidence for both everywhere, like the feathery stumps of wolf tails mixed in with the tufts of fluff left behind by pet parrots. Or maybe you wouldn't…

So I guess why birds are called dogs depends entirely on whom you ask. Most people have never heard the theory described above, so they generally believe that dogs are those things that have four limbs and fur. Since birds have only three limbs and feathers instead of fur, the misnomer persists unchallenged. Meanwhile scientist types prefer the term "bird" because that includes everything, including non-domesticated populations, whereas "dog" implies artificial selection. To them it's a question of precision vs. clarity. Personally, I call my chicken "my little boy," so perhaps I am biased toward accuracy over practicality here. My answer may not satisfy you, but it should tell you why the confusion exists and give you lots to think about.

[n0rtist]

funny story ab ur youtube video! so, yesterday i decided i wanted to work on my TTRPG system that i've been working on for a while, and i wanted to incorporate a Degrees of Success system into rolling, but do it My Way. I decided then, that i was gonna do it today. I opened up the document, and was just. really struggling to figure out how to incorporate it (bc i had a "critical strike" system i really liked), so i decided to take a break and opened youtube to relax a bit, cause, yk, you think better when you're not Trying to think. i saw you released a video today, and i was like "ooh heck yeah i love n0rtist!" so i watched it. and wouldn't you know it, in this video you talked about Precision vs Accuracy. which was the exact inspiration i needed to incorporate degrees of success into my system! i get to keep the critical strike system i really liked as "Precision," which increases your chance of critical success, but not success, and "Accuracy," which decreases your chance of critically failing (where a critical failure is a miss that does no damage, a failure is a "glancing blow" that does half damage).

so uh! thanks for that! funny how the stars seemed to have aligned perfectly for you to publish a video about your work that helped me out of a rough part in my work! xD

Woa! Thank you for watching the video and I'm glad that you were able to incorporate concepts to your own game!

[grey-sorcery]

Recommended Reading:

Introduction to Gnosis

Energy Work Fundamentals

Intermediate Energy Work

Conceptualization vs. Visualization

The Subtle Body

Basics of The Subtle Body

The subtle body is the energetic field surrounding all living things and the energetic nodes (as in density) of energies that are connected by conduits (paths of least resistance). The subtle body is connected to the physical body as well. This energetic body can influence the physical body and vice versa. They cannot influence each other too drastically, however. The subtle body is used in every type of magic that is possible and is the primary object in astral projection and dreamwalking.

What Are The Senses?

A lot of the information in this post has been taken directly from Intermediate Energy Work, I'm including them for the sake of a complete understanding, but I've put more emphasis on the newer material.

Yotasia: The closest analog would be a combination of hearing and touch. This sense is best described as having a sense that is of an entire volume of space, without any displacement due to the physical. Almost as if you had complete awareness of a volume of water, except that water permeates everything within that volume.

Tata’o: The closest analog is a combination of peripheral sense and sight. This sense is best described as a type of sonar that only reflects off of energetic constructs, including the ambient energies in the space and the energetic makeup of the surroundings. It is almost like all things energetic are constructed of mirrors, and your body is constantly radiating light. 

Kemiya: The closest analog is smell. This sense is best described as observing energetic fluctuations as theory moves throughout a space. This sense is typically experienced in the energetic points that exist just inside the head near the ears. This makes it the most internal sense. It is almost like smelling a scent as it moves through the environment, except you can pick up on the subtle variations as it passes. 

Taoyita: This sense doesn't really have anything analogous to our typical human senses. It is best described as Yotasia but it is more fractally inward and outward than expansive into the environment. It is like your senses can dive down into levels of reality that aren't normally perceivable. It also works in the opposite direction. When this skill is honed, it becomes possible to sense energetic fluctuations on nearly atomic levels or planetary levels. This sense is the best one to use for controlling the precision of your energy work.

Pioso: This sense is most similar to the sense of periphery. This one is best described as sensing when a sentient energetic presence enters a space and the ability to distinguish it from other energetic phenomena in the space. It is like feeling when a person enters a space without you seeing, smelling, or hearing them do so. 

Saya: Again, similar to Yotasia, this sense is like being able to sense energetic constructs. However, unlike Yotasia, this sense only perceives the circumference or parameters of those constructs. This sense does not pick up on fluctuations of energetic properties or density, only alterations in form. 

I named these senses myself from a conlang that I’m developing. I did this for the ease of communication and to try to avoid misunderstandings.

How Can They Be Used?

Energy work

In energy work, these senses are basically your eyes and ears. Without them, you’re flying blind and will have very little to no control over what you’re doing. Most practitioners rely on visualization, which weakens the potency of a spell as well as its effectiveness and accuracy. 

Astral Projection

Astral projection is not a visual practice, as that aspect of space does not interact with light the same way your dimension does. When I say dimension, I am referring to spatial dimensions. Without these senses, a practitioner is either completely blind or is developing a personal narrative based on their supposed astral navigations. This becomes increasingly more important within the Astral Plane.  

Spirit Work

While these senses aren't necessary to work with spirits, they are very beneficial. If you interact with your spirits energetically on purpose, then these senses are paramount. They also help spatially locate spirits and their forms. These senses can also allow you to know the type of spirit you’re dealing with, their disposition, and if their goals or mood change.

Psychic Abilities

I personally consider these senses to be psychic abilities, but they also assist greatly in the development of other psychic forms of perception. Such as claircognizance, foresight, and The Sight.

How These Senses Are Processed Energetically 

Yotasia:

In the energetic body, near the Myocardium; this energy point is directly connected to the largest of our subtle body’s fields. All energies within the field become modified so that they are entangled with the energy point.

Tata’o:

In the energetic body, near the left & right Bronchus; Connected to physiological breathing. Every breath contains ambient energy, every exhale releases energy. Projects into the environment omnidirectionally.

Kemiya:

Closest to the physical body within the energetic body, near the left & right Cochlea. These points reach out and tether to every composite of energy within the field produced by the brain. As soon as an energetic composite leaves the field, it is no longer detected.

Taoyita:

In the energetic body, nearest to the Pineal Cortex. Energy that is projected out of the upper and lower connection nodes is entangled with the pineal cortex point. This sense is the most sensitive because it picks up the most minute discrepancies in the frequencies and interactions between all energetic composites that are possibly detectable. When the sense is extended outwards, it is moreso compiling data from detectable fluctuations in order to extrapolate information that is beyond our fields.

Pioso:

In the energetic body, nearest to the Larynx; This energetic point connects to the spinal cord within the physical body. Any drastic fluctuations in the ambient energy causes a mild electric sensation and occasionally goosebumps.

   Saya:

In the energetic body, nearest to the Adrenal Glands. This sense is where we derive our sense of space. Even with our eyes closed and ears covered we can still sense the shape and size of an environment. This is do to this energy point that can take in only reflected energies. Reflection of energy minutely alters that energy’s properties, allowing for specific observation to be possible. 

How to Develop Them

These senses are vague and difficult to communicate about, so I will be using a lot of metaphors and similes here.

Pioso is the easiest of the senses to learn. This is the sense that allows us to know when something has entered or changed within our space of awareness. To be able to control this sense consciously, you must first feel for the mechanisms that drive it subconsciously. When the moment strikes that you feel someone looking at you, entering a space, or changing emotions pay very close attention to how the substance of space changed. Feel for how the substance changed within yourself. The fluctuation won't be very significant, but it should be noticeable. Be patient and remain aware of potential biases.  Once the mechanism is sensed, you’ll be able to start practicing it consciously. Starting with intentional empathy and feeling what people are doing through walls. 

From here it should be relatively easy to begin conceptualizing and practicing tata’o. This sense is very similar to Pioso, however instead of catching the ambient energies as they move past you, you’ll have to project your own energy omnidirectionally and catch the reflections. 

Once you’ve become familiar with how energetic properties and frequencies can be differentiated, it's best to start on Kemiya. This sense can be tricky due to biases, as the mind really wants to fill in the blanks. It is very helpful to enter into gnosis here, specifically on noticing fluctuations in the related energy points. 

Between the three of the senses before this, it should be pretty simple to move into Yotasia. The difficult part is expanding the field that your subtle body produces. However, we all do this pretty naturally too, but it can be difficult to pull off consciously. It is so similar to when you’re out in nature and can feel and sense the entire area which causes a sense of tranquility and homeliness. It goes beyond this though, that’s just the concept behind expanding the field. 

Once Yotasia can be done consciously, you can use it and Pioso to achieve conscious Saya, which allows for more accurate observations of energetic form. 

Taoyita is by far the most difficult sense to master or begin to learn. It helps to have a solid conceptualization of as many frames of reference as possible, which means that the idea of particles making up the universe needs to be unlearned, as its just an idea that helps teach our current model. It may be easier to think of this sense as projecting astrally, but rather than moving through space, moving into space. 

Employment of Energetic Senses in Creating Constructs

When creating an energetic construct, it is very helpful, but not necessary, to visualize whet it is going to look like and how it will function. In this regard, so long as you stay within the confines of three spatial dimensions the possibilities are limitless. Once the plan has been made, start releasing energy to give your construct form. Use your visualization, if you have one, as a mould to guide you in creating its form. However, visualization won't actually give you any indication as to where the energy is, its density, or its frequencies. For this, you'll need to use yotasia and tata’o and overlap those senses with your visualization. If you’re not using a visualization, then think about creating its form like sculpting with your eyes closed. You can feel the clay with you hands- which for some is a lot less complicated than using their eyes. Only in this case, you can feel every aspect of the energetic form from all angles. Then, by using taoyita, you can check the constructs energetic density with extreme precision. You can also use this sense to ensure that the anchoring of the construct is thorough enough and that energies are moving between the construct and the anchor as they should as to prevent an undesired energetic half-life. 

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[tanadrin]

One thing that’s kind of funny to me is just how long writers in English struggled to come up with a way to represent long vowels. They didn’t bother in Old English--you had to know whether a vowel was long or not, like in Latin, and if you didn’t, or if you’re studying Old English a thousand years later and trying to work out which vowels are long and which vowels are short, well, you can just go fuck yourself, buddy. A lot of scribes over the centuries quite sensibly tried for more phonemic transcriptions of English, with varying success.

The Orrmulum is a good early example of this kind of work. Its author, Orm, came up with a number of innovative spelling practices to represent English unambiguously. Alas, precisely none of these stuck; probably because his text’s most notable feature, using a double consonant to represent a preceding short vowel (since two consonants in the syllable coda reliably indicates a short vowel in most Germanic languages) is simply awful to look at. But god bless the man for trying.

In Middle English, the development of the maximal onset principle, which reallocated which syllable in a word a consonant belonged to in a way which tried to load as many consonants as possible onto the beginning of a syllable, led to the creation of more open syllables; subsequently, the vowels in open syllables were lengthened. This made it much easier to predict where a vowel was long vs where it was short--still not possible with 100% accuracy, since there were lots of closed syllables that retained long vowels (like in child, climb, and old), but this meant that a lot of words ending in vowels, especially -e, definitely had long vowels in them.

This is where we get the “final -e denotes a long vowel in the preceding syllable” spelling convention in English from; it was a sufficiently useful tool that even words which never had a final -e came to be spelled with one, to indicate a preceding long vowel, and even once this final -e fell silent (as it was starting to in the Middle English period), it was still written to indicate a preceding vowel. And we have retained it to this day--despite the fact that it arguably became mostly superfluous with the Great Vowel Shift, which diphthongized a bunch of long vowels! We could spell the vowel of “site” with no ambiguity as “sait” (indeed, that is approximately how you would transcribe it in the IPA), or the vowel of “fight” (which indicates the long vowel differently, using the silencing of the sound represented by <gh> with the attendant compensatory lengthening of the previous vowel) as “fait,” but instead we use a hodgepodge of centuries-old phonetic spelling techniques and kludgy workarounds, because English orthography has never been good at being simple.

A modern, cross-dialectical orthography of English (so, one that wanted to suffice for most North American, and British, and other regional varieties without too much ambiguity) would have almost no trouble with long vowels--with the exception of non-rhotic varieties there is no actual phonemic contrast purely in vowel length, and if you were creating a novel English orthography from scratch, I don’t think non-rhotic speakers would complain about keeping the rhotic spellings in, since they’re used to them. But English spelling reform is a thousand years too late--even by Orm’s day, the literary culture was already too much of a muddle of dialects and divergent spelling conventions to fix, and it has only become worse since.

No, better to learn from English’s mistakes--like the Icelandic scribes did, by putting a little tick mark over the long vowels way back in the 1300s, a system that has worked perfectly well for the language even through all the subsequent sound changes in the seven centuries since.