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Stone Choir

The Context Window

Stone Choir

Stone Choir

Education, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Corey J. Mahler

coreyjmahler.com

@CoreyJMahler

    Woe

    aka Eschatologuy

    @treblewoe

      All men have limitations — be they physical, intellectual, or something else. One such limitation is a thing we call, in the technology fields, a “context window”. In essence, a context window is the amount of relevant information that a man can hold in his mind at a given moment. In a conversation, it is the history of the conversation (along with any previous history from prior conversations, et cetera); in a relationship, it is the entire history of that relationship. In all cases, only to the extent such information can be held in the mind.

      Some questions call for a small context window (e.g., a bar fight may require only ten or twenty minutes of context to understand) and some questions call for a significantly larger context window (e.g., the current state of the Western Church is a matter of millennia). Not all men are equally suited to handle all matters — a man can be competent or incompetent with regard to a particular question or a particular discussion. In this preliminary episode leading into our upcoming series on the Septuagint (LXX), we discuss the concept of a context window and how it plays into the LXX specifically and many issues in our daily lives generally.

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      0:00.0

      The Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast. I am Corey J. Mahler.

      0:41.7

      And I'm still, whoa.

      0:44.2

      Today's Stone Quire is going to be the prequel to the beginning of our series on the Septuagint.

      0:50.8

      It's something we've been talking about for probably about 16 months now. I've been excited

      0:55.2

      for a really long time to begin doing these episodes. We have been holding off waiting for a book

      0:59.8

      to be published so that we could release this episode at the same time that that book could come out.

      1:05.1

      Hopefully it's going to be coming soon, but we're not going to wait any longer. The next episode

      1:09.3

      that we do, probably not next week,

      1:11.3

      because we're going to have to do a bunch of final prep to prepare that episode.

      1:15.4

      We've been working on it for 16 months, but we want to get all our ducks in row because

      1:19.7

      the Septuagint series is going to be the most important thing that Stone Quire ever does.

      1:24.5

      And so we've got to get it right. We want to make it enjoyable, listenable, digestible, and understandable. And so it's going to be the 100th episode.

      1:34.0

      We'll be at beginning of that. This is our 99th episode, and I called a prequel,

      1:38.2

      because as I was preparing my comments in the preamble for the 100th episode, for the

      1:43.9

      Septuagin episode, I was going

      1:46.0

      to talk about what we're going to discuss today. And once my preparatory comments got

      1:50.9

      probably best about the 30-minute mark, I realized this should really probably just be an episode

      1:54.7

      by itself. Because what we're going to talk about today doesn't have anything to do with

      1:58.4

      Septuagint. It has to do with a methodical

      2:02.9

      approach to what we learn and how we learn, how the human mind works. So the title of the episode

      2:09.7

      is the context window, which is a term of R from LLM's large language models or AI. We're going to be

      2:16.8

      talking in some detail about how AI's work in

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