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Re: Show HN: Bible as RAG Database

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Post by krapp »

hogehoge51 wrote: post #23
dredmorbius wrote: post #17

RAG, for those unfamiliar, retrievel-augmented generation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrieval-augmented_generation >

The Bible, for those unfamiliar, it’s the civilization source code forked and maintained by the Jesus cult that emerged about 2 millennia ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible (To put it in Hacker terms, where I suspect RAG could be a more familiar term than Bible)

The Jesus cult had a lot of forks but nothing was standardized until the Council of Nicaea formalized a spec and then later the King James committee published the framework that became the working standard.

Think Javascript pre and post Microsoft. But with lots more violence.

Re: Show HN: Bible as RAG Database

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Post by atmanactive »

jacksonastone wrote: post #90
atmanactive wrote: post #64

For completeness, this should include all possible books, including Ethiopian, and then it should include a drop-down with pre-defined sets one could choose from (Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox...).

Got the protestant and catholic now. Orthodox I am discovering is not a simple matter of "just include the canon"!

Fantastic. Thank you!

Re: Show HN: Bible as RAG Database

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Post by mcswell »

krapp wrote: post #91
hogehoge51 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Bible, for those unfamiliar, it’s the civilization source code forked and maintained by the Jesus cult that emerged about 2 millennia ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible (To put it in Hacker terms, where I suspect RAG could be a more familiar term than Bible)

The Jesus cult had a lot of forks but nothing was standardized until the Council of Nicaea formalized a spec and then later the King James committee published the framework that became the working standard. Think Javascript pre and post Microsoft. But with lots more violence.

The Jesus cult documents (and the documents before that fork) exist in thousands of languages besides Javascript/English... Indeed, the original FORTRAN/ Greek, plus LISP/ Ethiopic, not to mention the Assembler/ Hebrew from before the fork. And modern languages like Tzeltal/ Python.

Re: Show HN: Bible as RAG Database

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Post by bigggbob »

Nice project. The 4GB index / ~15s search part made me think zvec might be a good fit here: https://github.com/alibaba/zvec

It’s an in-process vector DB, so the “local corpus, no separate server” shape is pretty much what it’s designed for. Its benchmark numbers are quite strong, and recent versions also support full-text + hybrid retrieval and DiskANN.

This would be an interesting case to try with zvec: same corpus, same embedding model, then compare indexing time, index size, memory usage, and query latency on normal hardware.

Re: Show HN: Bible as RAG Database

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Post by TrnsltLife »

condwanaland wrote: post #62
danhau wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From your earlier comment: > It is saying that each of them can use the others body as they like, without regard for the other This is your own interpretation and it shows your bias. The bible (and I assume other religious texts) is easy to misinterpret due to bias. It's not written like a technical documentation where the tiniest details are specified; thus giving plenty opportunities to subject a text to arbitrary…

Funny how my view that 'your body belongs to yourself and no one else' doesn't require study and cross-referencing and other passages to understand.

Sure, but that is literally the opposite of the Christian teaching. The previous chapter, 1 Corinthians 6, reads: "You are not your own. You were bought at a price. Glorify God with your body."

Elsewhere it is written: "Present yourselves as living sacrifices, holy and acceptable until God, which is your reasonable act of worship."

These are voluntary acts of obedience in the same way that Jesus, though being in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but humbled himself, taking on the form of a servant, and being obedient even to death on a cross. (Philippians 2).

To be a Christian is to take up your cross and follow Christ. Consenting to a lack of consent in how your body is treated hence forward. A martyr's painful death. Or the embrace of your spouse.

Re: Show HN: Bible as RAG Database

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Post by chiply314 »

hogehoge51 wrote: post #23
dredmorbius wrote: post #17

RAG, for those unfamiliar, retrievel-augmented generation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrieval-augmented_generation >

The Bible, for those unfamiliar, it’s the civilization source code forked and maintained by the Jesus cult that emerged about 2 millennia ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible (To put it in Hacker terms, where I suspect RAG could be a more familiar term than Bible)

Im always so disappointed in fellow hn people when reading stuff like this.

Its not the code of our civilization at all.

religion might be a component for a certain phase in a civilization, but it is one we have to overcome and not a positive one.

And its very unclear how much real impact it has (positive or negative). Even without religion, people lived their lifes and progressed.

I would argue even in the past religion hindered us as a civilization.

Its a snippet of a culture from the middle east which spread certain mental virus across europe.

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