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If you asked people what's the hardest part of the Bible to interpret, you'd get a wide range of answers, but "Zipporah At The Inn" would probably be one of the most common: "On the way, at a place where they spent the night, the LORD met him and tried to…

This blog post is heavily inspired by jan Misali's excellent video essay on the topic.

Introduction In a single sentence, Wikimedia is an online movement dedicated to making access to knowledge equitable.

If you're lucky enough to not know what "Eat Pray Love" is, it's a book/movie about this incredibly successful woman who feels bored in life, so she divorces her husband and goes on a trip to "find herself".

A lot of people hate Monopoly, but I think it gets a bad rap.

Have you ever seen a recipe that looked so wild and out there, you can't help but feel like you need to try it at least once in your life?

I've recently found myself watching a lot of Youtube videos on my flip phone because I have no audio on my new desktop (thanks, Linux).

I literally just finished playing around with ChatGPT, and I found that it's really good at making stories, especially in other languages.

I have a bit of an interest in fashion, and I've been thinking about why we don't really wear formal clothing that much.

The title is partially clickbait: I only undercook the white meat.

Every now and then, you see people talk about how Blockbuster not buying Netflix was one of the worst financial decisions in history.

Lately, I've been flirting with the idea of making a game engine to evaluate Brazilian Draughts, which I plan to do with alpha-beta pruning.

The blackout seemed to have taken the internet by storm, but not much has been heard about it since.

Yesterday, I went on the shortest walk I've been on in months.

I was taking a look at my old GBA, and I couldn't help but think about how much technology has advanced since it came out.

While I was watching yesterday's MrBeast video, I noticed that the picture from Chris's coming out tweet was taken while filming for the $1,000,000 yacht.

I've noticed that a lot of posts I make here tend to be negative, so I decided to write about something that I like.

I entered a Kaggle competition, and I noticed that nobody from Crimea, the Donetsk People's Republic, or the Luhansk People's Republic was allowed to enter.

I think Tiktok was one of the worst things to happen to the internet.

With all the hype (and fear) about ChatGPT and existential threats caused by AI, I think it'd be good for society as a whole to take a step back and calmly analyse what AI are.

As I get back into Minecraft, I'm reminded by how awesome the cliff update was.

Yeah, it was definitely janky, but it's incredible that the devs were able to make an AI that could respond to what the player says all the way back in 2005.

A couple of years ago, I added a recovery phone number to my gmail so that I could get into my account if I ever forgot my password.

I decided to make an AI that predicts the quality of red wine recently.

After uploading yesterday's post, I learned that laptops aren't repairable anymore because they're so thin nowadays.

My laptop isn't in the best of shape (i.e. it's in the active process of dying), so I've found myself window browsing laptops a fair bit.

You ever have a bad day and think to yourself "I really just want to play old Flash games right now?"

If you're like me, you clogged up your entire hard drive with memes.

"Neon Genesis Evangelion" was mid.

Note: This article was originally written on December, 12, 2020.

Note: This article was originally written on Feburary 21, 2021.