DEV Blog 25 - Project Updates

A comprehensive overview of my Advanced Gospel Initiatives

General sentiment: productivity galore

Last DEV BLOG I announced that I was attending a hackaton/meetup sponsored by Factory.AI. Here is the link to the coverage by Ray Fernando (here). Above you will see the beginning of the documentation system and below you will see me running what is called a “mission” inside of droid (the autonomous AI agentic framework). While at the event, I worked on high value development that end-to-end represented about 12-hours of continuous coding—without me being involved further. There is an important inflection point with AI development tooling. It is absolutely mind-blowing that I can be doing other things knowing that the project is still moving forward without me. This has been promised for a long time, but only now is it working well and delivering real functionality.

From a more personal point of view, I want to thank everyone praying for me and these initiatives. Importantly, in addition to taking Sunday off and stopping work at dinner (and not resuming later in the evening) I am sleeping longer. It’s a breakthrough. Don’t laugh until you’ve walk a mile …

I did experience a flash of anger over something that I ideated 3-4 years ago. It has been on the back burner. Frustrated with my lack of attention and resolve to push on this strategically important missions effort, I used that anger to get very focused. The LORD did something because—suspend your disbelief Brothers and Sisters—I had this new Web3.0 blockchain-based website done in less than a day (I did this Monday). Absolutely all the Lord’s doing. Please pray ahead of the approval process that I now need to go through. If they approve, the deployment process is fairly straightforward. I have the domain reserved and a crypto wallet that will secure the website from anybody from being able to interfere with or alter/delete/change the content. Perhaps more on this later.

Bible Bench

I spent a significant amount of time this past week working on Bible Bench. When I met with Josh (the volunteer auditor), I noticed my understanding of some of the scoring calculations were incomplete. I had to do a deep dive into well-established mathematical/coding patterns for doing differentials between one string and another. Think of this like the Canonical verse and the LLM output verse. These need to be compared. For those brave intellects out there that are full formed nerds, you might want to watch this explainer:

I’ve developed a new “Database Explorer” report that lets Josh and I see under the calculations. It is a report that proves that the calculations are right. One of the tricky problems we have is to validate the integrity of the scoring system. Some of the finds with AI retrieval of English King James Version Scripture (book by book, chapter by chapter) is that we see mistakes. We have got to ensure that we interpret the findings in a formal way. Think of it like publishing a peer-reviewed white paper (which I do intend to do).

I am very close to having another major chunk done. My next chunk is to work with Josh to validate and audit the results. This is extremely complex. The adjustments I’ve been making this week are all aimed at helping with the audit journey. Pray for clarity.

After that I will be working on the last part before my May deadline. I intend to develop a groundbreaking Worldview Simulator. I want to show how AI is perfectly training, willing to engage with various religions of the world and bend Biblical truth into conformity with a pluralistic world religion (aka the One World Religion) talked about in Revelation. I have not fully ideated how this will work, but I hope to let users see for themselves that AI will be used to deceive the masses and to increase apostasy. Much more on all this later.

RKPi5 (Raspberry Pi Project)

Thankfully, testing is proceeding with Kevin taking lead on WAMPi. George is working on v2 of the solution with significant usability enhancements and bug fixes. I am hopeful that Thursday night I can do some stress and range testing with members of my Bible Study. I will let you know those results when I have them.

PRMNews App

When I was at Factory this week, I worked on two screen for ETL operations. One was to create a CRUD (create, read, update, and delete) page so that we can have a user interface to maintain the keywords that the news API is fetching from the source. It worked. The screen design itself might need further polish/development, but I can work with it. The second screen controls critical parameters used in each of the three stages of article processing. That is the staging, evaluate, and qa pipeline collections. There is a lot going on there and I didn’t want to hardcode any critical variable. One example would be the minimum threshold word count for an article. As it turns out, many articles are quick blurbs that “get minimum news” out but that is very sparse in actual news information.

I’ve defined the next round of these screens that will let me control the entire pipeline from the frontend. No more command line or Swagger API intermediate screens. This is a maturity step. One praise is a large Droid mission was working overnight and when I got up the next morning, I was shocked to find 4.5k new articles ingested into articles_staging collection! No kidding, the scheduling module using CRON kicked off at 6AM and finished unattended. Blew my mind, you guys! So, there are other aspects of the frontend screen development that have to be worked on. I hope to have some progress for you next week.

Book 6 - The Dax Hunter Files

Gary and I have enjoyed continued velocity as we add scene after scene to Book 6. Things are getting very exciting! For the first time, we were able to explicitly define all scenes that will complete this book project. As we peak the storyline, it is sobering to consider what is likely to happen. As a heads-up on the scope of this book, we will discuss how we kept moving the bar. We are definitely writing in the gap between the rapture and the signing of the peace treaty. Thrilling to see that what we are laser focused on the final 20% of the book. Then we go through final edits. As we speak, Gary and I are determining which of the scenes we’ve written will be memorialized on the cover of the book. We have a working title now, subject to finalization. No spoilers, folks.

We have a special event coming April 16th that will introduce Gary Albyn more formally to our community. His great effort to steward his skills, abilities and resources is something you will learn more about soon. Although I will share this moment, it is his time to shine. I have known Gary for something approaching four years now. To reflect that our friendship has grown to this moment is one of the great joys of my life.

True fact, I’ve always wanted to write a book but it always seemed elusive to me. When Gary asked me to help, it was so overwhelming. I’m so grateful.

Stay tuned for more details.

Please support Gary Albyn … it helps me too. I should mention that there is no financial benefit to me. Gary is a personal friends of mine. I just want to step up and help out to the best of my ability.

Support Gary Albyn at these outlets

Gary’s personal website (here)
Go to Barnes and Nobles (here)
Go to Amazon (here)

Long Term Roadmap

[IN PRODUCTION] Rapture Kit 3.1

[IN PRODUCTION] Keychain Rapture Kit

Physical Production and Inventory

Support Roy McFaddin at Keychain Rapture Kit

Go to Keychain Rapture Kit (here)
Go to Facebook (here)

Bible on Blockchain [ON HOLD]

Platform Diversification: [ON HOLD]

Web 3.0 Projects [ON HOLD]

Summary

My prayer requests:

1. Prayer has been working. There are many things I’m absorbing as the Lord helps through this important season. Please keep up your efforts!

2. Please pray for my wife’s infection after oral surgery last week.

3. Regarding Bible Bench, there is very significant amount of work to do yet. But I believe we are in great shape to undergo an audit. The point of this is to validate that the application is scoring the differences between the canonical and LLM responses. When I fully release the app, you’ll understand what this looks like. My end of April deadline still looks okay. What might slip is a formal peer-reviewed paper with the results. Please pray that the LORD continues to give Josh and I the insight, focus, and clarity to measure very complex logic. This is highly missional in an age where using AI is creeping further into the Church.

4. Both RKPi5 and WAMPi are going through testing. It’s been hard getting these projects finished. George is working on another version. My RKPi5 solution is on for my Bible Study to help me scale test it. Pray this can be successfully completed (as I’ve deferred multiple times).

5. I’m still working on PRMNews screens that have their grounding in the backend, but a control plane in the frontend. Bridging like this is not trivial. I’ll continue to tee these up using Factory and Droid autonomous agents. Pray this continues to work correctly.

Thank you all from the bottom of my heart!

#Maranatha

YBIC,
Scott