After a multi-year hiatus, SeanBoisen.com is finally back up and running. I've rebuilt things using Pelican, with the hopes that i'll be able to do better both at posting legacy content (most of my earlier presentations are back; sermons, papers, etc. are yet to come) and restarting blogging without …

Early in 2023, when ChatGPT was a new technology and we were all scrambling to investigate its capabilities, I had a chat with it about Bible translation. Like many, I was surprised how capable the large language model was at providing detailed, complex, and nearly immediate answers on a subject …

I first started learning Python when I took a job at Logos in 2007. Two people i respected and admired--my BBN colleague Lance Ramshaw, and my internet influencer/friend James Tauber--had told me about Python, and a new job seemed like the right time to try it out. I did …

I'm trying Pelican as a way to resuscitate my personal website. WordPress is convenient but too hard to maintain over time: I was regularly playing whack-a-mole with hackers. But I want a place to share my thoughts: i've found blogging has often been a helpful discipline to crystallize my thoughts …

I recently had the opportunity to talk to a very knowledgeable party about technology and Bible translation: here's a record of that chat. My questions are the section headers.

Describe the major challenges in Bible translation

Bible translation is a complex and challenging process that involves several major difficulties, including …