Ham’s Transgression: Using AI (Embeddings) to Study the BibleThis is a bit of a weird one, but in my daily Bible reading I’m going through Genesis and just out of curiosity thought I would see what…Feb 22Feb 22
Hebrews: Using AI (Embeddings) to Study the BibleThe closing benediction of Hebrews (13:20–22) has the highest cosine similarity among all other pericopes in the book: a score of 0.71 with…Feb 22Feb 22
Revelation: Using AI (Embeddings) To Study the BibleUsing embeddings for retrieval-augmented generation has become one of the more popular use cases for AI recently. These embeddings can…Feb 20Feb 20
Neil Grossman writes,Banning abortion essentially gives the state custody of a pregnant woman’s uterus. That’s not a politically correct way to put it, but it’s…Dec 8, 2021Dec 8, 2021
The Anecdotes of PunditsCertain political pundits get caught up in a similar type of anecdotal fallacy. But it’s not the typical sort of anecdote, involving…Nov 16, 2020Nov 16, 2020
Getting High Off OutrageAndrew Klavan has a great line about anger being the devil’s cocaine. Among the various outrage addicts is the church-going evangelical…Oct 6, 2020Oct 6, 2020
An Alternative Deal on SCOTUSJust a quick thought here. In 1 Corinthians 9 Paul mentions several rights that he and other apostles and ministers have, such as the…Sep 27, 2020Sep 27, 2020
Pragmatism is for Suckers?Jonah Goldberg, David French, and some others have suggested that Republicans should make a deal with Democrats in which Republicans don’t…Sep 24, 2020Sep 24, 2020
Transcendent Moral Purpose in Pluralism?Consider a basic definition of pluralism provided by Google:Sep 21, 2020Sep 21, 2020