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#11
General Discussion / Eph 6:12
Last post by Geremia - May 04, 2026, 11:24:00 PM
Quote from: southwesterly on May 04, 2026, 02:02:52 PMIt 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:
QuoteFor 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.
#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.

Quote from: Geremia on April 18, 2026, 11:25:11 PMoriginal Transformers paper:
  • Vaswani, Ashish, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, et al. "Attention Is All You Need." arXiv:1706.03762. Preprint, arXiv, August 2, 2023 [1st ed.: 2017].
#14
Fides et Ratio / another explanation of Transfo...
Last post by Geremia - April 25, 2026, 07:38:46 PM
Quote from: Geremia on April 18, 2026, 11:25:11 PMoriginal Transformers paper:
  • Vaswani, Ashish, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, et al. "Attention Is All You Need." arXiv:1706.03762. Preprint, arXiv, August 2, 2023 [1st ed.: 2017].
Another good explanation of Transformers:
#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 [1st ed.: 2017].

original byte-pair encoding (BPE) paper:
#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.  ::)