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Offline Matthew

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Re: Seeking Catholic PDFs, e-books, literature
« Reply #15 on: September 16, 2025, 07:57:00 AM »
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  • Ok, an update --

    The St. Isidore archive is 223 GB. I have a couple questions though --

    1. Are these all CATHOLIC books? Or is this just "all books" like Z-library, etc.
    2. If so, this must be about ALL of them, right? hahaha
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    Re: Seeking Catholic PDFs, e-books, literature
    « Reply #16 on: September 16, 2025, 08:56:24 AM »
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  • https://isidore.co/misc/Res%20pro%20Deo/
    This "Res Pro Deo " section is about the Catholic religion  as far as I can see. There is reading for many lifetimes.
    The main root directory is 10 % religious I guess.
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    Isidore Library, Religious Books, Res Pro Deo Directory Screen shots
    « Reply #17 on: September 16, 2025, 09:30:23 AM »
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  • Four Screen shots of Catholic Topics from Isidore.com

    The "Parent Directory" is the critical link to clic so you can navigate back and forth. ..Physics, Audio books section looks all Catholic .
    I don't understand the Calibre Section so much.
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    Re: Seeking Catholic PDFs, e-books, literature
    « Reply #18 on: September 16, 2025, 09:39:12 AM »
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  • Res Pro Deo Section, Audio Books. Evidently Catholic.

    Plus a screen shot of Misc.
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    Re: Seeking Catholic PDFs, e-books, literature
    « Reply #19 on: September 16, 2025, 02:44:34 PM »
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  • You know, I'm thinking a huge 223 GB library of general books isn't what I was after. Is there any way to mass download all the *Catholic* literature?
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    Re: Seeking Catholic PDFs, e-books, literature
    « Reply #20 on: September 16, 2025, 04:32:13 PM »
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  • For what it's worth, I think that Geremia does a wonderful job making all these books avaliable, but not all of them are pre-conciliar, so, they might not be really all "Catholic books".

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    Re: Seeking Catholic PDFs, e-books, literature
    « Reply #21 on: September 16, 2025, 06:05:27 PM »
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  • For what it's worth, I think that Geremia does a wonderful job making all these books avaliable, but not all of them are pre-conciliar, so, they might not be really all "Catholic books".

    As a word of caution to Matthew and others, I would seriously look into the infringement of copyright issue if you have not already.   You might want to run something like the following through one or more AI platforms of your choosing: "Does the website https://isidore.co illegally and or unethically infringe on copyrights?" 

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    Re: Seeking Catholic PDFs, e-books, literature
    « Reply #22 on: September 18, 2025, 11:51:36 AM »
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  • @Matthew do you know about https://www.tradivox.com/ it seems someone already did your "Catholic AI" project


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    Re: Seeking Catholic PDFs, e-books, literature
    « Reply #23 on: September 18, 2025, 12:48:42 PM »
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  • @Matthew do you know about https://www.tradivox.com/ it seems someone already did your "Catholic AI" project
    The website is really well done, but it took only one question to expose it as an Indult/Conservative N.O. leaning AI model, not quite traditional. Also, the particular "endorsements" aren't something to be proud of.
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    Re: Seeking Catholic PDFs, e-books, literature
    « Reply #24 on: September 18, 2025, 02:02:58 PM »
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  • @Matthew do you know about https://www.tradivox.com/ it seems someone already did your "Catholic AI" project

    I'm sure there's room in the world for 2 of them. And as SoldierOfCTK said, there is room for improvement.
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    Re: Seeking Catholic PDFs, e-books, literature
    « Reply #25 on: Yesterday at 02:25:39 PM »
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  • Anyone know if there be an electronic version of H-ugh A-kins book The Syn-agogue of Sa-tan? Much obliged!

    Thank you for the isidore.co site Germania. Finding several gems I have been looking for in my literary quests. :pray::pray::pray:
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    Re: Seeking Catholic PDFs, e-books, literature
    « Reply #26 on: Yesterday at 02:31:56 PM »
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  • I just tested a question that already worked *perfectly* in the Catholic AI I'm developing. Tradivox totally failed it.
    The question was:
    when did st. therese receive a miracle that helped her vocation?

    And it needed a certain PDF to be loaded into a vector database (RAG) to correctly answer. Just the naked AI model alone gave the wrong answer.

    I have the lookup working awesome right now -- I'm currently working on (stuck, as it were) on wiring up the nice "front end" website to use my RAG program as a middle-man, before it hands it off to a local AI I'm running on physical on-site hardware.

    I can't wait till I get that part figured out. It's going to be so exciting!
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    Re: Seeking Catholic PDFs, e-books, literature
    « Reply #27 on: Yesterday at 06:25:38 PM »
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  • Anyone know if there be an electronic version of H-ugh A-kins book The Syn-agogue of Sa-tan? Much obliged!



    Hugh's book was ѕуηαgσgυє Rising.  See ѕуηαgσgυє Rising by Hugh Akins | Open Library

    Andrew Carrington authored the book The ѕуηαgσgυє of Satan and an Internet search shows various places to get a PDF.


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    Re: Seeking Catholic PDFs, e-books, literature
    « Reply #28 on: Yesterday at 06:41:22 PM »
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  • It is my opinion that AI and Catholic are a dangerous combination. 

    Visit Substack.com .  Search "Catholic AI."  There are numerous sites.  I spent 30 minutes looking into this.

    One of the "Catholic AI's" is Jєωιѕн.  I'm sure of it.  They've twisting our teachings!

    Also, I've turned off " AI Learning " settings in Privacy.

    Please rethink your association with AI.  It's trouble.  You'll be used.
    Curious Hidden History - My Substack.  Resources page has list of books and videos for the curious.

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    Re: Seeking Catholic PDFs, e-books, literature
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  • It is my opinion that AI and Catholic are a dangerous combination. 

    Visit Substack.com .  Search "Catholic AI."  There are numerous sites.  I spent 30 minutes looking into this.

    One of the "Catholic AI's" is Jєωιѕн.  I'm sure of it.  They've twisting our teachings!

    Also, I've turned off " AI Learning " settings in Privacy.

    Please rethink your association with AI.  It's trouble.  You'll be used.

    Used by what? My tools? Are power tools from the devil as well?
    You do realize I have full control over all of it? No information, text, etc. even leaves my server to any questionable business or organization.
    Nor will any of them receive a cent from me. The software and AI models I am starting with are free.
    How can I be "used"? And what am I going to be used "for"?

    I bet you don't know much about (what everyone calls) "AI" or how it works.  It's a cross between software, linear algebra, and a database of numbers.

    You have touched on a good point however. We don't want to let some wishy-washy, questionable, pseudo "Trad" to step in and make the Catholic generative AI website (like ChatGPT). They could feed in pro-Conciliar data, pro-error, etc.
    Imagine their answer for "What is sedevacantism?" or "Who is Archbishop Lefebvre?"
    And it could be worse than a Novus Ordo Catholic -- they could be a plant, controlled opposition, a Jew, etc. and we can't have that. Which is why I'm doing this project.

    I, on the other hand, am a solid Trad Catholic that -- frankly -- you can trust. I mean, objectively speaking. Regardless of how much you like me, or agree/disagree with me. With me, at least you know what you're getting. I'm a known quantity. I have written thousands of posts on CathInfo you can go back and read; I've posted a lot of personal details here and there. I've run CathInfo for 19 years.

    When I populate the database that helps AI to do its job, I'm going to choose CATHOLIC works of solid reputation.
    I have been Trad since birth and am not controlled by anyone. I have the infrastructure and skills to do this project.

    I plan to "pass the hat" to buy any needed equipment to scale up the new service/website, once I have a public, functional, "beta" of sorts.
    Just like with the CathInfo server, I want to "own everything" -- no rentals, no subscriptions, no services, no monthly fees. I'd rather buy something for $1000 than commit to paying $10/month forever.

    Any software, scripts, config files, data, notes, books, PDFs, etc. will be owned and kept on physical media as well. It's the only way to go.

    This is going to be a completely "off grid" AI system, as it were. Of course it uses electricity and depends on the Internet for people to access it, that's not what I mean by off grid. I mean it's totally private, uncensored, and fully under my control/supervision.
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