Show HN: Bible as RAG Database (crosscanon.com)

Would love to use if you can get it back up! Sounds like an awesome idea for a way to converse with the Bible

The site is not loading for me! Interesting project

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.

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Did you include the Deuterocanonical books?

First result for "Jesus":

>Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept. Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s relative, and that he was Rebekah’s son. She ran and told her father. When Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister’s son, he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things. Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh.” Jacob stayed with him for a month. Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my relative, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?”

My search returned what might as well have been a random assortment of bible verses. It made me wonder what Terry Davis would have thought of modern AI. Would it be the natural evolution of his shortcut for random bible verses that he built into TempleOS, or would it be the opposite and a voice of evil?

Pretty effective. You can even type in "child murder" and "genocide" and get relevant passages

I vibed up something similar, comparing the verses of the big 3 religions. Cloudflare vectorize for embeddings db. https://crazy.church

This is really cool. Thank you for sharing.

RAG, for those unfamiliar, retrievel-augmented generation:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrieval-augmented_generation>

Not super impressed with this considering you can get better results in seconds from any basic LLM workflow.

Looking for slavery, it comes up with Leviticus 25:46-49 but misses the context that starts at verse 44.

> The king profits from the field

For the solution, read Henry George!

Searched for "sexual exploration". One of the results i got returned was from corinthians and read:

The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

I'm so glad this religion of peace sees consent as profoundly unimportant

pg-vector with hnsw is still 15 seconds?

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!

That's cool! I did the same for the Quran to see how RAG works. I also indexed related works called "Hadith" and the names of Allah. It initially required indexing everything using OpenAI embeddings and then powered by it.

https://reminder.dev/search

It's also open source

https://github.com/asim/reminder

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

Thanks for creating this, this is really fun to play around with! Is the code for this out in the open if someone would want to peek under the hood?

Can we have apocryphal books too, like Moses 6 & 7 :)