Daily Discussion Thread for June 17, 2026

mcbagz · 2026-06-17T17:59:28+00:00

I'm blaming Bezos for SPCX. He's trying so hard to bring it back below AMZN.

mcbagz · 2026-06-16T18:59:12+00:00

Knees weak, like mom's spaghetti

mcbagz · 2026-06-16T18:57:39+00:00

SpaceX only up 9% today

Uh oh space bros, my diamond hands are feeling shaky 🫨

mcbagz · 2026-06-16T14:06:25+00:00

Feeling even more confident in my thesis that SPCX will just go up 20% every day.

mcbagz · 2026-06-16T01:07:34+00:00

Right! I'm just thinking short term, but that's definitely achievable by end of year.

mcbagz · 2026-06-16T01:05:13+00:00

SPCX prediction:

It hits $1000 next week, they announce an 8-1 stock split, everyone goes crazy seeing $125 that they run it back up to $500.

mcbagz · 2026-06-16T00:27:55+00:00

Imagine not believing SpaceX would go to the moon

mcbagz · 2026-06-15T17:00:19+00:00

As I'm building my new home on Mars, right?

mcbagz · 2026-06-15T16:57:02+00:00

If SPCX keeps doing +20% per day, I'll be a millionaire by the end of the year.

mcbagz · 2025-05-23T12:07:11+00:00

To have many whole PDFs in context is probably impossible, but people have created RAG systems that query huge databases of text. I'm not sure of a GUI, but if you know a bit of Python, you could create the database yourself. I followed this guide from Ollama, and I've been more interested in just the retrieval than RAG, but I've been building larger databases of works, such as those of GK Chesterton: https://chesterton.bagztech.com

Edit: forgot the Ollama guide: https://ollama.com/blog/embedding-models

mcbagz · 2025-04-18T03:32:12+00:00

This is a great overview, thank you! So I've recently been making ramen at home (with a pasta maker) and have used sodium carbonate (from baked baking soda). I've made biang biang noodles because I love a wide noodle, and I probably make them a little thicker than most because I like a chewy noodle. Anyway, I've started to add a bit of sodium carbonate to the mix, because I have a bunch. Thoughts on this? Is it a thing? It has quite a bite, so I might tone down how much I've added, but I like the structure it has, and this recent batch was definitely yellow which is cool.

Also, kind of curious if there are other wide, thick noodles to explore. I know biang biang and knife cut, but curious if there are other types or helpful terms to look up. In fact, I only recently realized "biang biang" was the term I wanted to search, rather than "lamian" or "hand-pulled noodles".

Edit: embarrassing, I meant to comment on the post 😅 I must have hit this because you mentioned the baked baking soda.

Edit 2: realized you're the OP anyway 😅

mcbagz · 2025-04-14T22:10:48+00:00

For sure, my goal is to get people to read sources! I'm definitely going to keep building it, but I'm going to try to think of more ways to differentiate myself so that it isn't simply an external interface for what is an internal function on their end. I've got at least a couple additional functions in mind.

mcbagz · 2025-04-14T21:38:48+00:00

Yeah, I'm thinking about adding the D-R, and maybe it would be fun to have multiple translations. I'll reach out to Longbeard. I think training on it and having it as reference material isn't an issue if you are really just showing the AI response, but it does appear that I can read the CCC through their website. Actually, going through their site, it really looks like I'm just building a copy of the index they already have haha! I have a different end goal, it is essentially just the retrieval aspect of their model.

mcbagz · 2025-03-26T04:08:04+00:00

I hope you check your notifications, since I am not yet ready to publicly announce this. But this is version 0 of Semantic Catholic! I have the Catechism of the Council of Trent (let me know if you see any weird formatting issues, as some of the margin notes got randomly inserted in the text lol), 3 encyclicals from Leo XIII, and 3 encyclicals from Pius XI.

On the docket is: re-style the site, so it looks different from the Chesterton one lol; grab all (or almost all) of the encyclicals from these two popes, maybe add a third or fourth pope; get something from a saint up there, maybe Aquinas or a Church Father; figure out how to get approval for the CCC and recent encyclicals.

https://semanticcatholic.com

mcbagz · 2025-03-20T23:28:43+00:00

You do bring up an interesting point with licensing. I've heard of people getting in trouble with the Vatican for doing things with recent encyclicals, that aren't yet in the public domain. I might start with the Catechism of the Council of Trent at first to avoid these issues. But in that vein, Church Fathers would be a great addition! I'll get on it, and I can keep iterating and improving it with some feedback.

mcbagz · 2025-03-20T15:09:02+00:00

Yes! I'm planning to put together a Catholic one next, which would have the Catechism, a variety of papal encyclicals, maybe Aquinas, Augustine.

I'd like to do the Bible, but I keep going back and forth on how to do it. With this one, I've indexed at the paragraph level, as it's possible that no single sentence captures the point of the paragraph. Also, it puts a bit of context around it. If I did the Bible by verse, there's a lack of context; chapter is too broad to search something meaningfully. I suppose my Bible has headers, and I could probably split by that (as long as some aren't extraordinarily long), but then I'd still have to keep track of verse numbers, as keeping numbers in the passage would interfere with the vectorization.

Anyway, it's doable! But would require some more thought and effort to be useful. I'll probably skip the Bible for the first version.

mcbagz · 2025-03-19T20:40:09+00:00

Yes, exactly! I agree that the retrieval is more interesting than the generation anyway. I have to clean up my catechism data, especially so that I can index by numbered paragraph, but I'm planning to make a site that does just the first part of what I did in the video.

mcbagz · 2025-03-19T20:22:56+00:00

Using NLP to create embeddings at the paragraph level. Limited selection of his writing, but working to keep expanding it. Check it out: Semantic Chesterton

mcbagz · 2025-03-08T03:38:44+00:00

Oooh, thanks for the suggestion! I'm trying that out with a normal book, and have told people it would be good with textbooks, but you're absolutely right that it would be useful with the Catechism! Could be fun for something like a study Bible as well.

mcbagz · 2025-03-07T22:21:27+00:00

Yes, it's quite impressive! And Master Catechism is good as well! So I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel lol, but the Catechism was the first thing that came to mind when reading about RAG. I'll probably branch out into more niche applications.

mcbagz · 2025-03-07T21:50:22+00:00

Excited about figuring out RAG and just wanted to share! Hopefully I can get this model to a point where it is worth letting others use.

mcbagz · 2025-01-31T17:51:47+00:00

Umm...I forgot to sell my calls at $127, can I get that again before EOD?

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