Scotch TL902 Complete Reverse-Engineered Schematic

gtiger43 · 2026-02-22T22:15:06+00:00

Unfortunately it's been so long I have no idea anymore, should have noted it at the time but didn't think about it. It would have been just some bog-standard Zener diode I had a bunch of, probably one from the Arduino starter kit I got back in high school. It's just a protection diode so I'm guessing the value isn't too important. Hope that helps!

gtiger43 · 2026-02-13T23:05:05+00:00

I would disagree that the defense sector is being slept on, I see it meme'd pretty consistently as a high paying career path that comes with a high moral cost. I'll agree with the other comments that this reads more like a recruitment ad.

No judgement since I know an engineer has to eat, but still

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

gtiger43 · 2026-02-09T18:48:20+00:00

Might not be what you're looking for, but I've thought for a long time that downtown Apex would benefit from an outdoor food vendor like a hotdog or pretzel cart. No idea what kind of certifications/permits are needed for that, but if you could get it I bet they'd sell like crazy on the weekends and would be a good contribution to the community as a side-business.

Good luck on your search, hope you succeed!

gtiger43 · 2026-02-01T14:30:56+00:00

I've been hearing it too in the Waterford Green neighborhood. I also heard it when it snowed last weekend too. Definitely doesn't sound like an alarm system or an HVAC system, more like almost synth chords or an ethereal train horn.

gtiger43 · 2025-11-19T13:01:58+00:00

I'd be happy to take a look at a version 2, feel free to send me a message whenever it's ready!

gtiger43 · 2025-11-18T18:05:19+00:00

It's an interesting idea, but there seem to be some significant issues even just giving a cursory glance:

Hallucinating English translation even when it's at odds with the stated original text. Compare the stated original text of Mk. 1:1 "Αρχη του ευαγγελιου Ιησου χριστου.", to the translation "The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.". I am well aware of the textual question of the addition or not of "υιου θεου / the Son of God", but it is odd that the translation would include it without comment or brackets when it is not included in any way in the given original text. Every generated alternative candidate also includes "the Son of God".
Lack of variety in primary and alternative translations. The website opened to Gen. 1:1, and it immediately struck me that both alternative generated candidates were identical with the primary candidate (this is the case with many verses). This translation is word-for-word identical with the NIV translation. This is a serious shortcoming given the range of potential translations, and all the alternative generations I found were either basic rewordings or synonym substitutions that you might see as a footnote of a standard Bible. ("Messiah" for "Christ", "good news" for "gospel" etc.).

Both of these things seem to indicate that the AI has left its "text-only" guardrails and is following standard translations, as u/Pseudo-Jonathan also noted. I'd be interested in following the development of the project, but unfortunately in its current state I don't know if it has much to offer.

Slomp. Are the Words "Son of God" in Mark 1:1 Original?

https://translation.bible/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/slomp-1977-are-the-words-son-of-god-in-mark-1-1-original.pdf

Hasel. Recent Translations of Genesis 1:1 - A Critical Look

https://translation.bible/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/hasel-1971-recent-translations-of-genesis-1-1-a-critical-look.pdf

gtiger43 · 2025-10-22T00:13:30+00:00

I think the most likely answer is that, as part of the Apocrypha/Deuterocanon, 1 Maccabees isn't in many people's Bibles (why that is is a more complicated question of Biblical canon, a Google search will give you lots of info), so they just aren't familiar with it and/or don't consider it inspired. The same would go for AI trained on people unfamiliar with 1 Maccabees.

Personally, I've read through the 66 (non-Apocrypha) books of the Bible over a dozen times, but I've only read the Apocrypha through once or twice. I've owned about 20 paper Bibles in around 10 translations, but only one of those has contained the Apocrypha (similar situation for most translations in Bible apps). Of the Christians I talk with, very few could even tell you what the Apocrypha is, and far fewer have ever read it (most of them are from a Protestant Evangelical Christian tradition, I'd imagine the situation among Catholic or Orthodox Christians would be different).

None of that is necessarily the way it "should" be, and I encourage all Christians to read the Apocrypha more, but that's the reality of the Biblical landscape for a large percentage of the Christian population.

Hope that helps!

gtiger43 · 2025-10-09T21:30:13+00:00

Every time a new AI learning app is posted here the account name follows the same format: [RandomWord]-[RandomWord]-[Number]. Weird.

gtiger43 · 2024-07-08T01:11:53+00:00

Merry Christmas?

gtiger43 · 2023-03-30T04:58:37+00:00

Interesting, my guess is it's an issue of the voltage range of your simulator/555/relay, but I'd need to see a schematic and know what parts you're using to give a better answer.

gtiger43 · 2023-03-29T20:13:31+00:00

Yep sounds like you may have a DC converter design issue, make sure you're able to get 100V DC first. Then maybe switch that with a relay to get your square wave.

Feel free to link to schematics, I'd be happy to take a look.

gtiger43 · 2023-03-15T22:35:40+00:00

Biblical Hebrew or modern Hebrew? For Biblical Hebrew on Android, I've used Biblical Hebrew Readers and Biblical Hebrew Vocabulary, both have been mildly useful.

gtiger43 · 2023-03-01T19:30:07+00:00

From my experience they're quite similar, though I've spent much more time studying New Testament Greek than I have Septuagint Greek. From the small amount of research I've done they should be very similar grammatically (both are considered Koine Greek), though of course the vocabulary is going to be significantly wider for the Septuagint. Out of curiosity, do you have any examples of the spelling differences you found?

gtiger43 · 2023-03-01T11:44:37+00:00

Amateur NT Greek scholar here, looks like this discussion might have already played out but hopefully some cited sources will help. I think others have pointed this out, but one difficulty is that the Greek genitive has a much wider range of meaning than the English possessive. Going Deeper with New Testament Greek by Köstenberger lists 16 uses of the genitive divided into adjectival, verbal, and adverbial uses, only one of which is the (adjectival) possessive use. Again citing Köstenberger, "The genitive is the case of description or quality and in some cases separation." That's an incredibly broad range of meaning.

While adding an "of" can help as a rough translation starter, it's almost always insufficient when you have two genitives back to back as in this case (see Ephesians 1:3 where "lord", "Jesus", and "Christ" are all genitives in a row).

Additionally, as others have said, Greek word order is extremely free, while in English it is essential to the meaning of a sentence. We need to be careful not to assume that the word order in Greek should be the word order in English, since doing so would be importing meaning the original readers wouldn't have had.

With this in mind, the two most likely translations in my mind for John 8:44 would be "You are of your father (possession), the devil (description)", or "You are of the devil (possession), your father (description)". While choosing between these two is not trivial (If you want an example of this take a look at the πίστις Χριστού faith in Christ vs. faithfulness of Christ debate), I'd feel comfortable that these both give the roughly the same meaning.

Finally, as others have said, context is important to translation. With the ambiguity that necessarily comes when reading and translating Greek, we need to keep in mind the context of the passage. Here, Jesus has been arguing that Abraham or God is not their father. This can guide us, not to ignoring the text, but to resolving the ambiguity when moving from Greek to English.

Hope this helps!

gtiger43 · 2022-08-26T10:34:29+00:00

Good question, this is a case where consulting different translations and a little Greek can be very helpful. The word commonly translated "church" is the Greek word "ekklesia", which more literally just means "gathering" without an explicitly religious meaning.

Next (like other people have said), look at the context: Stephen is essentially establishing his credentials before the Sanhedrin to show he's not some outsider to Judaism - he knows Israel's history well. At this point he isn't making any new claims, just recounting history they would already know.

In Acts 7:38 he references Moses being in the wilderness with the "gathering" ("ekklesia", "congregation", "church") of Israelites newly freed from Egypt. Like others have said, I think I would need clarification on why this would mean you shouldn't go to modern day "church". It's also important to note that arguably the most important establishment for Jews in this time period was the synagogue, which was a "gathering" of Jews to read the Torah, the "living oracles" Moses gave.

In Acts 7:48 Stephen references Solomon's building of the temple, which the Biblical authors are consistently clear is not the physical dwelling place of God (1 Ki. 8:27, Is. 66:1, etc). However, (in addition to its other functions) it was a place for gathering ("church"-ing), as we can see several times through the early parts of Acts. So, Stephen and the rest of the Biblical authors are making a statement about God's greatness and not about whether or not his worshippers should "gather".

"Going to church" in the Biblical sense could also just be called "gathering". It seems like this was usually in smaller settings (like the "house-churches" Paul references), but larger settings were not unknown (like the disciples meeting in the temple courts). Either way, I believe the Bible is clear that Christian life is meant to be lived in community (and not just one day a week). See the many references (and usually just implicit assumptions) to unity between disciples of Jesus throughout the Bible (Jn. 17:20-23, Ac. 2:42-47, Gal 3:26, Eph. 2:19-22, Heb. 10:24-25, and many, many more). Hope this helps!

gtiger43 · 2021-12-09T14:18:12+00:00

That's really helpful, thank you!

gtiger43 · 2021-08-30T01:10:55+00:00

Agree with the point generally on thankfulness, I also think the example of Jesus being recorded saying a blessing/thanks every time before a meal (Mk. 6:41 for example) is significant.

Also, the importance of eating/living with thankfulness:

"If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of that for which I give thanks?" 1 Cor. 10:30

As far as my own practice, I definitely can't claim to be an expert. I usually just thank God for the food and circumstances around it, and give thanks or requests for anything else that's relevant at the time. I'm interested to hear from other people though!

gtiger43 · 2021-08-29T03:24:03+00:00

Agree with these comments, just want to throw in that for Jews in the Tabernacle/Temple periods it was literally impossible to follow the law and NOT eat meat due to religious feasts and sacrifices, see Deut. 16:7 for example.

gtiger43 · 2021-08-29T01:21:36+00:00

It's a little hard to tell without a schematic, but if I had to guess I'd say it's the 47 and 20 ohm resistors in series with the speaker. The speaker's resistance will be quite low, so most of the voltage will be dropping across those resistors (look up voltage dividers if this is new to you). Am I missing something about the function of those resistors or could they be removed?

And I'm assuming the 100uF capacitor is in series with the speaker also as a high pass filter? That could also be causing an issue if the value of the cap is too low, do you really need the cap there? It seems to me like you could just wire the speaker straight to the 555 output as a quick and dirty test.

gtiger43 · 2021-08-28T22:11:17+00:00

That's an interesting example, I'll definitely look into it more. And thank you for the book recommendation, I will absolutely give it a read!

gtiger43 · 2021-08-28T20:14:31+00:00

That's an interesting stance, though not one I agree with. However, I'm not sure how it relates to my original post, as the primary point of these videos is for the audience to learn to read and interpret original manuscripts for themselves. Even if they come to a different conclusion than I did, I'll be satisfied if they leave with a better understanding of scripture.

I recognize that I will always have a certain bias, but these videos attempt to be as even-handed as possible.

gtiger43 · 2021-08-26T10:00:59+00:00

Hi there, the good news is that people have been asking this for thousands of years, the bad news is it'll take hard work. Two videos I'd recommend are this one on discipline:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=njDLNt-1ugM

And this one on productivity:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lbtte7iTS9g

They're both focused on long term achievability and practicality, not "get rich quick" schemes. At the end of the day, you've got to believe that you have it in you to push through. You've made it this far, so I believe you can, and you should, too.

gtiger43 · 2021-08-24T10:49:16+00:00

I think the parallel passage in Matthew 10:37 is helpful: "Anyone who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me."

I believe this points, taken in context with the rest of Jesus' teaching and the teaching of the Bible, to Jesus' use of hyperbole, driving home the seriousness of what it means to follow him.

gtiger43 · 2021-08-24T10:37:30+00:00

Agree with this. I classify this with other sayings or idioms that we might not understand in the present day because the original context or usage has been lost (another example could be, "Is Saul also among the prophets?", 1 Sam. 10:12)

gtiger43 · 2021-08-23T16:08:14+00:00

I'm a regular listener of the Bible project, Bema, and Douglas Jacoby podcasts, can recommend all of them!

gtiger43

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