defocus

Apophatic User Content Resolution

Apophatic† User Content Resolution: say explicitly what you don't want to receive, what you want to defocus.

† Apophatic User Experience, put roughly, claims that nothing positive can be said about the Data which the User experiences.

apophatic, latinized form of Greek apophatikos, from apophasis "denial, negation", from apophanai "to speak off", from apo "off, away from" + phanai "to speak". [ etymology ] [ meaning ]

Examples

• from all the posts in the database, defocus the ones containing hate

from all
    defocus hate

• from all the posts with cats, defocus the ones containing white

from cats
    defocus white

from and defocus are language keywords,

all and cats are deselectors,

hate and white are defocal entities.

Deselectors and Defocal Entities can be user- or system-defined.

Contents

• Syntax
• Packages

Syntax

keywords

• from
• defocus
• define
• explain

In the example

from all
    defocus hate

hate is a defocal entity

A defocal entity can be user- or system-defined. The user can overwrite some/all system-defined defocal entities.

Consider this user definition

define hate
    high controversy
    low empathy

or

define hate
    700-x controversy
    0-153 empathy

controversy and empathy are system-defined defocal entities.

User can overwrite

System-defined defocals

• old
• new

Defocusers

• high
• low

A defocuser can be specified as an interval between 0 and 1000

• 0-1000 - all
• 700-1000 - high
• around 500 - +- 100

Defocuser attributes

around

explain around
    top 50
    base 130

the around attribute will add 50 points to the top limit and reduce the base limit with 130

Extension of defocal entities

oldest newest

given old make oldest
    time 3 years

given new
generate newest
    time 3 hours

given the already defined old/new defocal entities, generate new entities oldest/newest, containing data which appeared 3 years ago or 3 hours ago, respectively

given new, cats
generate newcats
    defocus humans

give the already defined new and cats defocal entities, generate a new entity newcats which defocuses humans

which can then be used as

from all
    defocus newcats

Packages

@plurid/defocus • the CLI application