The personal story behind the Catholic Digital Commons Foundation: a word of encouragement from Fr. Charbel Bteich, a meeting in Saint Peter’s Square on the day Pope Leo XIV was elected, the Builders AI Forum, and the founding of the CDCF on January 21, 2026, read in the light of Magnifica Humanitas.
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A few years ago I published the musical score of Amelio Cimini’s Easter Proclamation (Exsultet), which was my favorite melody: when I am asked to sing the Exsultet, I prefer…
With the AI hype of ever new LLMs coming to the scene, each with its own specific capabilities, I thought I’d give some vision models a test drive for OCR…
After the Deepseek coder was announced promising amazing performance and quality in code generation, I was curious to try it out locally. I found this youtube video that explained a…
Here is another one of the papers accumulated on my desk, a “Decalogue” that indicates the style of life befitting a priest according to the thought of Don Primo Mazzolari.…
Among so many papers accumulated over the years, which I am trying to clear from my desk, I find one with a poem that is a hymn to life. The…
In my opinion, the author of the following story, whoever he may be, must have intended to make some veiled reference to the characters created by the writer G. K.…
On one of my last return trips from Boston to Rome passing through Dublin, I was able to distance my connecting flight so as to have a good Dublin layover…
Since it is difficult to find, and since my printed copy of the score is now very faded, I decided to transcribe this score of the Easter Proclamation (Exsultet) by…
I have been working on the BibleGet I/O project for a year now, and I have made among other things a WordPress plugin for this project. One of the features…