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willf / new_jerusalem.md
Created May 25, 2025 19:02
The New Jerusalem (Sermon at Kalamazoo Mennonite,

The New Jerusalem
Kalamazoo Mennonite Fellowship
Revelation 21:1-22:5

Will Fitzgerald
May 25, 2025

I love the Jewish expression, tikkun olam, meaning “repairing the world.” We live in the midst of such brokenness, and it is not enough that we just made as good a life as possible for just ourselves, our kind of people, but also seek the welfare of all the world: justice and fairness for all humanity, health and prosperity for all, care for the earth and all creatures in it, even the patterns of weather and climate, and the recovery from toxins and poisons in the soil and waters.

Sometimes, though, it’s so discouraging.

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willf / pearl_kwic_sorted.csv
Created May 9, 2025 14:22
We can't make this file beautiful and searchable because it's too large.
line_number,reference,left_context,word,right_context,word_reference,word_lower
18,[Pearl](https://metseditions.org/editions/RZ5r80ETbe1cKVpHvm1RUl9eMrNR8l): 18,Yet thoght me never so swete ,a, sange,[a](https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-english-dictionary/dictionary?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search_field=hnf&q=a),a
22,[Pearl](https://metseditions.org/editions/RZ5r80ETbe1cKVpHvm1RUl9eMrNR8l): 22,"O moul, thou marres ",a," myry juele,",[a](https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-english-dictionary/dictionary?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search_field=hnf&q=a),a
33,[Pearl](https://metseditions.org/editions/RZ5r80ETbe1cKVpHvm1RUl9eMrNR8l): 33,So semly ,a, sede moght fayly not,[a](https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-english-dictionary/dictionary?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search_field=hnf&q=a),a
38,[Pearl](https://metseditions.org/editions/RZ5r80ETbe1cKVpHvm1RUl9eMrNR8l): 38,In Augoste in ,a, hygh seysoun,[a](https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-english-dictionary/dictionary?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search_field=hnf&q=a),a
45,[Pearl](https://metseditions.org/edit
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willf / fds-catalog.txt
Created April 10, 2025 02:52
All FDS Catalog files
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https://www.fs.usda.gov/rds/archive/products/RDS-2020-0054-4/RDS-2020-0054-4_Metadata_Fileindex.zip
https://www.fs.usda.gov/rds/archive/products/RDS-2021-0030-2/RDS-2021-0030-2.zip
https://www.fs.usda.gov/rds/archive/products/RDS-2021-0030-2/RDS-2021-0030-2_Metadata_Fileindex.zip
https://www.fs.usda.gov/rds/archive/products/RDS-2025-0016/RDS-2025-0016.zip
https://www.fs.usda.gov/rds/archive/products/RDS-2025-0016/RDS-2025-0016_Metadata_Fileindex.zip
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https://www.fs.usda.gov/rds/archive/products/RDS-2025-0017/RDS-2025-0017_Metadata_Fileindex.zip
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willf / gsa.md
Created February 15, 2025 16:37
GSA Repos forked
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willf / NOAA-repo-mappings.md
Last active February 13, 2025 15:42

Repository Links

Date: 2025-02-13

This is a list of NOAA GitHub organizations and the repositories forked over to the NOAA-clone organization.

It does not include

  • repositories which were themselves forked
  • empty repositories
  • .github repositories
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willf / leaders.md
Last active November 21, 2024 23:45
New Sacred Harp Leaders, 2023
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Shawn Taylor 49
Abigail Cannon 44
Bridge Hill Kennedy 31
Bill Denney 28
Julia Zaffarano 27
Jessica Bellaire 26
Allison Langston 25
Anne Altringham 24
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willf / reader.md
Created October 6, 2023 13:51
Example Greek reader Markdown output as rendered by GitHub

4.18.1 Ταῦτα εἰπὼν Ἰησοῦς ἐξῆλθεν σὺν τοῖς μαθηταῖς αὐτοῦ πέραν[^1] τοῦ χειμάρρου[^2] τοῦ Κεδρὼν[^3] ὅπου ἦν κῆπος,[^4] εἰς ὃν εἰσῆλθεν αὐτὸς καὶ οἱ μαθηταὶ αὐτοῦ. 2 ᾔδει δὲ καὶ Ἰούδας ὁ παραδιδοὺς αὐτὸν τὸν τόπον, ὅτι πολλάκις[^5] συνήχθη Ἰησοῦς ἐκεῖ μετὰ τῶν μαθητῶν αὐτοῦ. 3 ὁ οὖν Ἰούδας λαβὼν τὴν σπεῖραν[^6] καὶ ἐκ τῶν ἀρχιερέων καὶ ἐκ τῶν Φαρισαίων ὑπηρέτας[^7] ἔρχεται ἐκεῖ μετὰ φανῶν[^8] καὶ λαμπάδων[^9] καὶ ὅπλων.[^10] 4 Ἰησοῦς οὖν εἰδὼς πάντα τὰ ἐρχόμενα ἐπ’ αὐτὸν ἐξῆλθεν, καὶ λέγει αὐτοῖς· Τίνα ζητεῖτε; 5 ἀπεκρίθησαν αὐτῷ· Ἰησοῦν τὸν Ναζωραῖον.[^11] λέγει αὐτοῖς· Ἐγώ εἰμι. εἱστήκει δὲ καὶ Ἰούδας ὁ παραδιδοὺς αὐτὸν μετ’ αὐτῶν. 6 ὡς οὖν εἶπεν αὐτοῖς· Ἐγώ εἰμι, ἀπῆλθον εἰς τὰ ὀπίσω καὶ ἔπεσαν χαμαί.[^12] 7 πάλιν οὖν ἐπηρώτησεν αὐτούς· Τίνα ζητεῖτε; οἱ δὲ εἶπαν· Ἰησοῦν τὸν Ναζωραῖον.[^11] 8 ἀπεκρίθη Ἰησοῦς· Εἶπον ὑμῖν ὅτι ἐγώ εἰμι· εἰ οὖν ἐμὲ ζητεῖτε, ἄφετε τούτους ὑπάγειν·

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willf / biohaiku.md
Created May 11, 2023 20:38
biohaiku

Listen spend sit cause.
Picture six affect today.
Little lay system.

Card yard pick effect.
Nearly win everything view.
And help improve take.

Now recent allow.
Senior tend rich side second.

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willf / llm-reading-list.md
Created May 8, 2023 16:28

The Walugui Effect:  After you train an LLM to satisfy a desirable property P, then it's easier to elicit the chatbot into satisfying the exact opposite of property P.

On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? In this paper, we take a step back and ask: How big is too big? What are the possible risks associated with this technology and what paths are available for mitigating those risks? We provide recommendations including weighing the environmental and financial costs first, investing resources into curating and carefully documenting datasets rather than ingesting everything on the web, carrying out pre-development exercises evaluating how the planned approach fits into research and development goals and supports stakeholder values, and encouraging research directions beyond ever larger language models.

[# ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web]

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willf / patrick.md
Created March 17, 2023 20:13
Patrick of Ireland

Patrick of Ireland

Will Fitzgerald
March 21, 2009

Once upon a time -- and listen, for although this sounds like a fable, I will try to make every word true -- once upon a time there was a young boy named Patrick, a young Christian boy whose father was a deacon, and whose grandfather was a priest. This happened a long, long time ago -- you can tell because he has a Latin name, and it was son long ago that priests could marry -- but people haven't really changed that much. Patrick, though he was raised in a Christian household did not himself know God. I imagine he was like most people, just living his life out without much concern for spiritual things. Perhaps this was because he had a relatively comfortable life in a small villa with a father who made a good living. They didn't really have a "middle class" back then, but he was something like a typical middle-class teenager.

But then something really terrible happened. Raiders attacked his parents' villa, and Patrick was taken off to be a slave in