I submit that the purpose of an encyclopedia today is less about serving as a reference and more about declaring what things are true or worth investigating. An encyclopedia article is an affirmation of truth or of the bounds of acceptable views.
As expressions of leading or acceptable views, encyclopedias always had this purpose, but in an age of increasingly accurate AI, it becomes the one remaining purpose that AI itself certainly cannot perform.
“V for Vendetta” is the correct answer.
Also Carmen Sandiego LOL
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Well, now I’m interested: this suggests an eschatological timeline and that Muslims calling to prayer at an Orthodox Moscow church fits on it. But do explain, Fr. Joseph!
Larry Ellison celebrates the ability of AI to more effectively monitor everybody.
Are we supposed to be OK with central monitoring and a social credit system, because it’s run by friends of the Trump administration?
Isn’t this the sort of thing a Trump administration was supposed to stop?
I believe more people are driven away from the faith by bad churches and bad teaching and apologetics than by actual frontal atheistic attacks.
Here is an out-of-the-way but quite scenic central Ohio park, north of Logan and southeast of Lancaster: Boch Hollow State Nature Preserve, December 2023. #OhioBeauty
The hills of Ohio are sometimes carved by these sorts of winding gullies inside the valleys, which generally cut through the soil to the bedrock.
“Gulf of America”—that absolutely killed me! LOL!
Ohio State beat Notre Dame, 34-23, to win another national football championship. Go Bucks!
AP reports: Trump withdraws the US from the World Health Organization.
Well, that’s good.
Sunday Read:
Crypto: All or Nothing justcaws.ca/2025/01/cry…
#Bitcoin #CryptoNews
I just learned that, at least according to GPT 4o’s calculation, using GPT 4o mini (via OpenRouter) would cost $0.0374, as in FOUR CENTS, for a 300 page book. Like, $100 would intelligently post-process 2500 books. That just might be the way to do it!
I might have asked this before, but does anybody know of an open source PDF (or JP2) to HTML tool—or, to be clearer, a digitized book to single HTML page tool? A colleague and I have talked about this and we have both done work in this direction. I am just struck by how strange it is that such a thing doesn’t already exist. In fact it seems rather obvious that it should be a command-line tool, because it’s such an obvious and needed task. I’m too old to want to reinvent wheels.
I guess I’m stuck with Tesseract + postprocessing, but the postprocessing is endless. Pretty sure I’ll just install a lightweight LLM on my desktop and use that.
Trump’s inauguration is at noon on Monday. The college football championship game is at 7:30 on Monday. Which will you take in?
A necessary, not an optional cookie.
Stephen Colbert says, “You might not see me again when Donald Trump becomes president.”
This is unintentionally funny. On the one hand, lefties like Colbert have the wacky conspiracy theory that Trump is planning to do a massive fascist crackdown, finally showing what a truly unjust totalitarian he is, just like Hitler! (He was waiting for his second term to show his true colors.)
On the other hand, MAGA and Q types are sharing this because they think Colbert knows he’s going to be arrested for some unknown crimes, most likely crimes against children.
What is most likely is that neither of these things will happen. Knowing that there really are a lot of massive crimes against children covered up by the Establishment—like those perpetrated by Epstein’s and Diddy’s organizations and friends, to say nothing of the many, many others—we can *hope* there will be arrests made and justice done.
But there weren’t in Trump’s first term. Why should we expect them now?
