This blog is a gift to my wife, Renee, and my children, Adele, Athan, Audrey, Anne, Amelia, and Andrea.

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Saturday, October 14, 2023

My New Project: AI Bible Summary

AI generated image of AI summarizing the Bible 😂

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has really come into the forefront of tech last year, when OpenAI released ChatGPT to the public. As most of you know, it's basically a super smart chatbot. It is able to understand the context of your questions and requests and provide very useful, albeit sometimes inaccurate, answers.  

Since ChatGPT's release, I have spent quite a bit of time with it.  At work, I will sometimes need to write code and I've used it to generate a good portion of the code that I would use in my programs.  It's also quite good at writing Excel formulas.  It's like having a really smart coach, who knows pretty much everything there is to know, ready and willing to help.  The best part is: you can just carry on a conversation with it.  You don't actually need to learn how to communicate with it, unlike with many unintuitive software.

Now, hold that thought on AI for a bit.  Recall that I completed the Bible in a Year podcast last year.  Although it was my second time going through the entire bible, I still feel like I haven't really absorbed a lot of the content into my brain.  For example, aside from being called by the Lord when he was in bed as a child and later anointing David, what else did the prophet, Samuel, do in his ministry?  Or what did St. Paul write in all those letters of his (aside from the "Love is patient" passage that is used in 98% of all weddings)?  And so, recently, I was thinking to myself, "wouldn't it be nice if there is some sort of Cole's Notes on the bible?"  Although I'm sure there are probably countless of them on the internet, a thought came to mind: can I use ChatGPT to do exactly that, create a summarized version of the bible?

So, on the anniversary of the final apparition of Our Lady of Fatima (October 13), I have started my new project: Catholic Bible Summary or @catholicbibleai.  I will post a summary of a chapter of the bible on X (Twitter), starting from Genesis all the way to Revelation. The goal is, of course, not to create a replacement for the bible, but to make the bible more accessible, in bite-sized chunks once a day.  I will also include a link to the full text of the chapter for those who want to delve into the original text.  I hope I can do my small part in the New Evangelization that is so needed in this crazy world of ours.  This project will take approximately 3 years to complete.  Please keep me in your prayers so that I can persevere...and remember to follow me!

Finally, I leave you with the first chapter of the bible, Genesis 1:

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Wednesday, July 15, 2015

I'm Back!

Thanks to +Matthew Siu's recent blog posts, I decided to re-start this personal blog.  I'm not sure I've ever advertised this, but here it is!  I even went out and bought the www.felixwong.org domain (which, by the way, cost me only $13 for the year)!

Anyway, since it's been about 4 years since my last post, thought I'd share a picture of my rascals with you!  Hope it won't take me another 4 years until my next post.

Audrey, Athan, and Adele at Grand Bend
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Monday, December 27, 2010

My Blog

I never knew I liked writing so much!  Maybe I should have taken English literature instead of Mechanical Engineering in school?!  Anyway, I really regret not having started blogging earlier.  In July of 2009, I started The Catholic Investor blog.  Ever since I started seriously investing, I found that I had so many ideas regarding the topic and really wanted to share them.  However, I didn't feel it was right to bomb my close friends with emails about something in which they may not necessarily have too much interest.  And quite frankly, I wouldn't mind earning a few bucks from putting ads on a blog!  So, I started blogging.  After almost a year and a half, I have a steady readership (of which I'm fairly surprised and grateful for).  But something was missing...

What is it?  When my boss's father-in-law, who was an artist, passed away, in the funeral home was displayed the paintings that he had painted during his lifetime.  My boss told me that this collection of paintings left a very tangible legacy of his father-in-law.  It was something his children and grandchildren can look at years from now and remember that these were the masterpieces of their (grand)father.  This made me think.  What will I leave behind to my children and grandchildren as my legacy?  I wanted something more than just memories, as even the most precious ones will fade with time.  What more can I leave to them than my own personal thoughts and a record of things that happened in their father's life, which will no doubt involve their own lives as well?  This will be my gift to them.

The first post of this blog was actually a note I wrote on my Facebook page a couple of days after Adele was born.  I wrote it while Renee and her were sleeping soundly in the hospital room.  That was the beginning of my blogging journey, and so, it is appropriate for me to put that note in this blog.

And so, here begins a new page in the journey of my life...actually, our lives (Renee, Adele and me, and who knows how many more to follow).  I don't know who will eventually stumble onto this blog, but if no one else other than my family reads it, I would still be so very grateful and glad.
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