John BowlingHam’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…2 min read·Feb 22, 2024----
John BowlingHebrews: 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…1 min read·Feb 22, 2024----
John BowlingRevelation: 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…5 min read·Feb 20, 2024----
John BowlingNeil 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…2 min read·Dec 8, 2021----
John BowlingAI/MLNatural language processing is a confirmation of Searle’s Chinese room.1 min read·May 6, 2021----
John BowlingThe 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…2 min read·Nov 16, 2020----
John BowlingGetting 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…5 min read·Oct 6, 2020----
John BowlingAn 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…6 min read·Sep 27, 2020----
John BowlingPragmatism 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…2 min read·Sep 24, 2020----
John BowlingTranscendent Moral Purpose in Pluralism?Consider a basic definition of pluralism provided by Google:6 min read·Sep 21, 2020----