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#11

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.

#12

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]

#13

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]

#14

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:

#15

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]

#16

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]

#17

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.

#18

Fides et Ratio / Transformers for 🇻🇦→🇬🇧 NMT

Last post by Geremia - April 11, 2026, 01:52:05 AM

Excellent explanation of Transformers, cited in Natural Language Processing in Action §9.2.2 as "a mind-expanding walk through the modern GPT architecture", "3Blue1Brown visualizations and explanations by Grant Sanderson":

(from full Neural Nets playlist)

#19

Forum-Related / 📧 working

Last post by Geremia - April 05, 2026, 10:32:23 PM

Email is finally working. I had to create an app password to use with the SMTP server, as SMF doesn't support OAauth2.

Resurrexit sicut dixit! Alleluia!

#20

Forum-Related / Re: U.S. Court Order Against A...

Last post by justjeff - March 09, 2026, 03:33:21 AM

Thank you very much, that looks like a great reasource.

The battle continues.