jquinby

Husband, (grand)father, theology graduate student at St. Meinrad, ham radio op, backyard naturalist. 


Radio interests: HF digimodes, APRS, SDR, utility DX, swl, occasional antenna homebrews. 
A veces bilingüe.


In candidacy for the permanent diaconate in the Diocese of Nashville.

2023-04-20

@sscherdin @paulmyoung@newsie.social Nice! Discernment is certainly a process.

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2023-04-10

My daughter, who has had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this observation about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen:

Something that seems fundamental to me about ChatGPT, which gets lost over and over again:  
When you enter text into it, you're asking "What would a response to this sound like?"
If you put in a scientific question, and it comes back with a response citing a non-existent paper with a plausible title, using a real journal name and an author name who's written things related to your question, it's not being tricky or telling lies or doing anything at all surprising!  This is what a response to that question would sound like!  It did the thing!
But people keep wanting the "say something that sounds like an answer" machine to be doing something else, and believing it *is* doing something else.  
It's good at generating things that sound like responses to being told it was wrong, so people think that it's engaging in introspection or looking up more information or something, but it's not, it's only, ever, saying something that sounds like the next bit of the conversation.
2023-02-06

@srseanm So far it's as good as I hoped; will almost certainly be getting more of these.

2023-02-03

Sacra Pagina commentary on John arrived today. I'll be using it for a paper, but keeping it forever. It looks so good.

2023-02-02

@bensaufley Found this: jstor.org/stable/660064?seq=12 tl;dr article suggests from an Algonquin word

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Richard J. Daltonks0und@mastodon.radio
2023-02-01

Current 747 flight

#747 #everett #boeing #FlightPath #EasterEgg

Screenshot of the flight path of a 747 plane. The flight path spells out "747" with a design around it.
2023-01-28

Diaconate formation weekend focus: Johannine literature. #theologidons #diaconate

Our classroom with my laptop and iPad covered in text and notes on John 6
2023-01-27
2023-01-27

@k2cr glad to know it's working. journalctl looks normal but the 2 test links provided are giving me host-not-found errors.

2023-01-27

@k2cr just set it up; pretty painless!

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Chris K2CR 📻k2cr@mastodon.radio
2023-01-27

Former #ADSBExchange feeders are moving to a new server, adsb.fi. Coverage is light right now, but hopefully more feeders will come online soon.

globe.adsb.fi/

If you're feeding #ADSB, please consider adding or switching by pointing to feed.adsb.fi

2023-01-26

I ordered a book and it turned out to be coming from a seller in the UK. I know that it's en route but there's no other tracking information so I'm shuffling out to the mailbox every day to see if it shows up. At first I was annoyed but now it's sort of fun.

Is it here today? No? Oh well. Maybe tomorrow!

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2023-01-26
2023-01-26

So I just migrated to 1Password from LastPass, and it was...seamless. Only hit one little issue with the built-in 2FA support and my GitHub account, but I got that sorted, and everything is working as expected.

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Sean Mayersrseanm@c.im
2023-01-23

There are so many things that this article gets right about the current state of Catholic literature!
osvnews.com/2023/01/22/let-in-

Our culture "doesn’t need (and won’t read) apologetics and dialectics disguised as fiction. It doesn’t need stories about saintly believers and their pietistic lives. That’s what the Lives of the Saints are for — and those are necessary, don’t get me wrong — but knowing a story’s end before it even begins makes for poor fiction.

What’s needed are stories about faithful sinners (and doubters) undergoing Jacobean wrestling matches: stories of the hard struggle of loving one’s neighbor, the harder battle of loving one’s enemy, the impossible-seeming task of loving God, and the temptation between wide and narrow paths. That’s where every human being lives: doubt in tension with faith, despair in tension with hope, hardness in tension with charity."

Amen. Preach, brother!

#Catholic #AmWriting #AmEditing

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I feel like more people should know about the Egyptian god Medjed en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medjed

Literally just a sheet with some eyes and feet
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Mike ElganMikeElgan
2023-01-20
2023-01-20

RIP David Crosby. That one hurts.

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