To open this channel, let us pray Psalm 127:

Unless the LORD build the house, they labor in vain who build. Unless the LORD guard the city, in vain does the guard keep watch. It is vain for you to rise early and put off your rest at night, To eat bread earned by hard toil— all this God gives to his beloved in sleep. Certainly sons are a gift from the LORD, the fruit of the womb, a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the sons born in one’s youth. Blessed is the man who has filled his quiver with them. He will never be shamed for he will destroy his foes at the gate. Amen.

The Catholic University For this first contribution to the Colloquium, I present a paper I wrote in my final year of seminary: https://davidbaunach.com/html/papers/catholic_university I think I related it elsewhere, but the idea of the Saint Maker came to me while on retreat in preparation for my ordination to the diaconate. So going into my last year of seminary, I knew I wanted to study Catholic thought on, and the development of, the university. I had some elective slots left, and a wonderful professor who agreed to guide the individual study. I found John Henry Cardinal Newman's thought the most directly related to the task of building a university from the ground up. The aim has to be universal. God is the author of all wisdom and knowledge, to be too tightly focused is a rejection of what God has given for us to study. With that in mind, what I think this channel should be for, is everything! Present research on any topic, share educational resources, share guides and tutorials you've made, ask for critique, offer advice, and above all things, seek the wisdom that is from God.

Just ran a side-by-side comparison of translating the 1st chapter of Genesis with Google Translate and ChatGPT. Haven't done any analysis yet, this is just the raw data. Didn't include it in the doc, but I ran this today, 2023.02.15

Welp, apparently cannot share pdf files on Discord, so I'll have to upload the full 3 pages elsewhere, but this first sheet gives enough of an idea of what the capabilities are.

Wrote something too long to post here, but in a nutshell, it's about literary universes and a simple game: https://social.techpriesthub.xyz/terrantechpriest/solarmonk-and-the-wonderverse

Want to recommend this Youtube channel (Tech Ingredients https://www.youtube.com/@TechIngredients) for learning things relating to chemistry and engineering. I happened across them while researching homemade rocket engines. The video linked below is a perfect example of their typical content: long form (this one is an hour), detailed, and while not an in-depth tutorial, it gives all the info you need to reproduce their results. They've done videos on making your own air conditioner, building speakers, and most recently, making a vacuum chamber to simulate the environment of space in orbit. Definitely worth the time if they have a video on something you want to learn about. Here's the one about rocket engines:

# Saint Maker Wiki A long term project I've been playing around with,is establishing a wiki for the university. Overall goal is Wikipedia, but Catholic. Given the current state of the project, any sort of officiousness or large scale planning seems to be grandiose beyond need or want. Thus, for the time being I'm going to keep it as a personal project, figuring stuff out as I go, and at least at this point, just try to have fun with it. Here's what I've got so far: https://github.com/davidbaunach/saint-maker-wiki I've got the whole thing in Markdown, fully public domain, and so far just the first chapter of Genesis from the Vulgate. ## Markdown I'm starting with only markdown because it keeps open the possibility of throwing it into a static site generator in the future if I want to host it somewhere. It also keeps it human readable, as well as easy for others to add to and edit it. Was looking at this generator as a possibility: https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook ## Public Domain This will of course limit the writings we can publish on the wiki, but it will also just keep things simple. I'm hoping to find an out of copyright Catholic dictionary or encyclopedia to serve as the backbone of the entire project, but with what I already have I want to figure out an organizational model before I start on that. cont...

## Vulgate This choice was made as the first step since it seems right and just to begin at the beginning, with the Word. Also, it seemed to be a good way to figure out navigation. Right now I've got navigation links on each page; and I think links between concepts, and eventually between connected biblical passages will allow for enough interconnection. Being able to search would be nice, though right now, it's super fast to search just locally. And also the whole of Genesis is just 440kb, so even with the entire bible it's not going to get huge. ## Going Forward I'm going to keep working on it as a personal project for the time being, but I would eventually like to open it up for contributions by anyone. Not sure how it could transition into a bigger project like Wikipedia, but we're a long way away from that, so we'll leave that work for the future.

# FOSS: The Cathedrals of Our Age There is an inborn drive, deep within every human being, to build something that will be useful for the tribe. This is how God created us, with that shadow of the creative drive with which He called the universe out of nothing. To make something just because it is beautiful that it exist. To make something that others will find useful. To build a cathedral. / This is the perfection of that drive: to build something for the glory of God, something that will be helpful to believers for centuries to come. To put your efforts and energy, towards something that you will never see finished. / And because cathedrals are born out of this drive, they become places of wonder. We cannot know all the names of the people that helped build it, a few may stand out, but you will not find the names of the sculptors adorning the gargoyles. Because the drive is not out of a need for recognition, but the need to be an artist, a builder, a maker. / That is what we are doing with the Saint Maker. We denizens of the university, we are digging foundations and putting up scaffolding, because we are artists and builders. This, and really any other Catholic open source project, are the cathedrals of today. Built out of the creative impetus that is our birthright, for the glory of God, in service to the tribe.