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#1

Disputationes / Scholastic Principles Flashcar...

Last post by Geremia - May 10, 2026, 04:37:06 AM

Thomistic definitions, axioms, and theses in Latin 🇻🇦 & English 🇬🇧

• Anki deck
• printable flashcards (print duplex vel double-sided, long-edge flip); cf. HTML source and Python scripts used to generate it

cf. Wuellner, S.J., Summary of Scholastic Principles

#2

General Discussion / La conférence de presse de Mgr...

Last post by Geremia - May 06, 2026, 04:07:38 AM

@justjeff Thanks for reminding me to interlibrary-loan  « La conférence de presse de Mgr Lefebvre », 15 juin 1988, Fideliter hors série, 29-30 juin 1988, mentioned passim in Sel de la terre «Les sacres épiscopaux de 1988 Étude théologique (II).» It would be good to have the full-text of the press conference.

Update: It's available on FSSPX.org: "Conférences de Mgr Lefebvre - 15 juin 1988". ++Lefebvre doesn't mention the names of the candidates.

#3

General Discussion / Re: Bishop Schneider Appeals t...

Last post by justjeff - May 05, 2026, 10:25:56 PM

I did not, but from the link you provided, it sounds like that would have been June 13,1988, though it doesn't specifically state that it was made public then.

On "June 13 [1988] [...] the four candidates appeared together at Ecône"; they were:...

From an answer to an AI query it sounds like the priests to be consecrated as their newest bishops will be announced this June.

#4

General Discussion / Eph 6:12

Last post by Geremia - May 04, 2026, 11:24:00 PM

It raises a lot of questions about accountability and how much of our lives are being shaped by systems we don't even see or understand.

Eph 6:12:

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood; but against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places.

#5

General Discussion / Re: CBDC - It Begins: This Is ...

Last post by southwesterly - May 04, 2026, 02:02:52 PM

This is honestly pretty unsettling but also really thought-provoking. The idea that systems like Palantir could carry forward something like Total Information Awareness under a different label makes it feel like these structures never really go away—they just evolve. What stood out to me most is the shift from human-driven control to algorithmic power, especially the "pre-crime" concept creeping into everyday governance. It raises a lot of questions about accountability and how much of our lives are being shaped by systems we don't even see or understand.

[Attention Is All You Need]

#6

General Discussion / DeepL uses a modified Transfor...

Last post by Geremia - April 25, 2026, 09:04:46 PM

DeepL uses a modified Transformer architecture.

original Transformers paper:

• Vaswani, Ashish, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, et al. "Attention Is All You Need." arXiv:1706.03762. Preprint, arXiv, August 2, 2023 [1^st ed.: 2017].

[Attention Is All You Need]

#7

Fides et Ratio / another explanation of Transfo...

Last post by Geremia - April 25, 2026, 07:38:46 PM

original Transformers paper:

• Vaswani, Ashish, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, et al. "Attention Is All You Need." arXiv:1706.03762. Preprint, arXiv, August 2, 2023 [1^st ed.: 2017].

Another good explanation of Transformers:

#8

General Discussion / Re: Bishop Schneider Appeals t...

Last post by Geremia - April 21, 2026, 01:41:12 AM

@justjeff Do you know the answer to my question: "When were the names of the priests Archbishop Lefebvre consecrated bishops in 1988 first known to the public?"?

[Latin 🇻🇦 → English 🇬🇧 Translator]

#9

Fides et Ratio / Latin 🇻🇦 → English 🇬🇧 Translat...

Last post by Geremia - April 19, 2026, 11:40:16 PM

Latin 🇻🇦 → English 🇬🇧 Translator is now live. 😃

[Attention Is All You Need]

#10

Fides et Ratio / AquinasLatinEnglishModel uses ...

Last post by Geremia - April 18, 2026, 11:25:11 PM

AquinasLatinEnglish / AquinasLatinEnglishModel uses Transformers and Byte-Pair Encoding.

original Transformers paper:

• Vaswani, Ashish, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, et al. "Attention Is All You Need." arXiv:1706.03762. Preprint, arXiv, August 2, 2023 [1^st ed.: 2017].

original byte-pair encoding (BPE) paper:

• Sennrich, Rico, Barry Haddow, and Alexandra Birch. "Neural Machine Translation of Rare Words with Subword Units." arXiv:1508.07909. Preprint, arXiv, June 10, 2016.