Slow, but interesting. I used the query "government" and got back passages in Romans 13 (as I expected), but also passages in Daniel and Ezra describing decrees by government officials, which made sense.

This is really cool...great job! It's a favorite pastime of mine to index various large corpora.

As for speed, this might help for code referencing: https://github.com/deepbluedynamics/lume

Blog post: https://deepbluedynamics.com/blog/lume-retrieval-primitives

I use a small local model to extract entities for the graph, but it's not necessary.

You can optionally use GTR-T5 which is a few years old now, but still good for generating fast and free embeddings. That step is only run once if you run it in hybrid mode.

Feel free to take and remix or use!

For completeness, this should include all possible books, including Ethiopian, and then it should include a drop-down with pre-defined sets one could choose from (Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox...).

> The king profits from the field

For the solution, read Henry George!

Any chance you wrote it up anywhere? I'm somewhat interested in RAG and a worked example would be nice.

The site is not loading for me! Interesting project

pg-vector with hnsw is still 15 seconds?

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Yes! looks like yours has more features (I considered generating the audio) FWIW I observed that the embedding gives the most signal when I pass whole paragraphs (for all I know the Quran is in lyrical verse so maybe that doesn't work)

The Bible, for those unfamiliar, it’s the civilization source code forked and maintained by the Jesus cult that emerged about 2 millennia ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible

(To put it in Hacker terms, where I suspect RAG could be a more familiar term than Bible)

That's impressive and really fast. I asked it what it thought about vector databases:

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things {are} honest, whatsoever things {are} just, whatsoever things {are} pure, whatsoever things {are} lovely, whatsoever things {are} of good report; if {there be} any virtue, and if {there be} any praise, think on these things. {honest: or, venerable}

Hypothesis:

This passage lists a lot of names repeatedly, and Jacob is in the genealogy of Jesus. Genealogies also list a lot of names. So perhaps somehow it’s jumping from Jesus to Jacob?

Ah no it doesn't but could be added. The books are listed in the checkbox list

It would be nice if there was a listing of exactly what was included somewhere.

No, and it's not KJV. Maybe NKJV? I searched

Eccl7:13 "Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?"

and it came back with:

Ecclesiastes 7:12-15 For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it. Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight which he has made crooked? In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him. All this I have seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing.

I built a Bible scholar agent using RAG grounded in the Berean Standard Bible. Is the same concept but an LLM discern the text for you.

Here is the link to the demo: https://safi.selfalignmentframework.com/

Choose the Bible Scholar agent and use deepseek or Gemini 3.5 for the LLM.

Nevermind, it eventually loaded

Yeah just made repo public: https://github.com/jacksonStone/cross-cannon

I wanted to know it was only returning source. My suspicions always go up when I have the LLM lean on its "deep memories". too much fluff, inconsistent translations, stuff like that.

Yes but for probably 1000x the energy/cost.

Groups by paragraphs when collecting embedding

Fun exercise. Type in pokemon or japanese. You can really see the nearest neighbor text in embedding space. Pokemon gives passafes referencing animals and japanese passages referencing foreigners

You could make the case I've just been indoctrinated in this stuff (genuine believer) but I take that to be a profoundly progressive verse given the context Paul is writing. Notice the symmetry.

You have to keep reinterpreting it until it aligns with whatever the masses currently consider to be true. This has been going on forever. The current hot reinterpretation is to say we’ve been wrong in what the scriptures teach about same-sex relationships and aaacktshually.. it’s fine.