# donaldson — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover donaldson. Page: Feed: --- ## Psalm 90 - Summer Psalms _2026-08-17 · Victory Family Church - Chickasha_ Sunday at Victory Family Church with Pastor TJ VonWald. [Listen](https://www.buzzsprout.com/925432/episodes/19660191-psalm-90-summer-psalms.mp3) ## [Gospel of John WK 1 Fall 2026 | Saturday Morning Men's Bible Study | Chris Morgan](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mcsmmbs/episodes/Gospel-of-John-WK-1-Fall-2026--Saturday-Morning-Mens-Bible-Study--Chris-Morgan-e3negso) _2026-08-15 · SECC | MC - SMMBS · Men's Ministry | Southeast Christian Church_ Chris Morgan teaching on John 9:1-41. Below are discussion questions from his teaching: Brief checkin: High and Low What specifically stood out to you this morning from the text? What does this text reveal about the character of God? What is the next step you need to take in response to today‘s passage? [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/132d1ff0/podcast/play/124256600/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-7-15%2F429889743-44100-2-f428ee1a0e24.m4a) ## [Gospel of John WK 1 Fall 2026 | Man Challenge | Chris Morgan](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mcsmmbs/episodes/Gospel-of-John-WK-1-Fall-2026--Man-Challenge--Chris-Morgan-e3nbtph) _2026-08-13 · SECC | MC - SMMBS · Men's Ministry | Southeast Christian Church_ Chris Morgan teaching on John 9:1-41. Below are discussion questions from his teaching: Brief checkin: High and Low What specifically stood out to you this morning from the text? What does this text reveal about the character of God? What is the next step you need to take in response to today‘s passage? [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/132d1ff0/podcast/play/124171505/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-7-13%2F429772772-44100-2-392183391de93.m4a) ## Psaml 88 - Summer Psalms _2026-08-09 · Victory Family Church - Chickasha_ Sunday at Victory Family Church with Pastor Corey Webb. Links/Notes: https://www.victoryfamily.church/summerpsalms [Listen](https://www.buzzsprout.com/925432/episodes/19631044-psaml-88-summer-psalms.mp3) ## Psalm 51 - Summer Psalms _2026-08-02 · Victory Family Church - Chickasha_ Sunday at Victory Family Church with Pastor Doug Everaard. [Listen](https://www.buzzsprout.com/925432/episodes/19591913-psalm-51-summer-psalms.mp3) ## Psalm 23 - Summer Pslams _2026-07-26 · Victory Family Church - Chickasha_ Sunday at Victory Family Church with Pastor Christian Murillo. Links/Notes: https://www.victoryfamily.church/summerpsalms [Listen](https://www.buzzsprout.com/925432/episodes/19557744-psalm-23-summer-pslams.mp3) ## Summer Pslams - Pslams 139 _2026-07-12 · Victory Family Church - Chickasha_ Sunday at Victory Family Church with Pastor TJ VonWald. Links/Notes: https://www.victoryfamily.church/summerpsalms [Listen](https://www.buzzsprout.com/925432/episodes/19488229-summer-pslams-pslams-139.mp3) ## [Hours Above Replacement](https://www.jjd.io/posts/hours_above_replacement.html) _2026-07-12 · Justin Donaldson · Justin Donaldson, Ph.D._ In 2017, Hurricane Maria knocked out three Baxter plants in Puerto Rico, and hospitals across the US suddenly couldn’t get saline bags. Nurses went back to pushing drugs by syringe. In 2022, a COVID lockdown in Shanghai shut a single GE plant and hospitals started rationing contrast media — triaging which patients got CT scans. In 2024 it was blood culture bottles. The receipts. Saline after… ## Psalm 1 - Summer Psalms _2026-07-05 · Victory Family Church - Chickasha_ Sunday at Victory Family Church with Pastor Christian Murillo. Links/Notes: https://www.victoryfamily.church/summerpsalms [Listen](https://www.buzzsprout.com/925432/episodes/19452894-psalm-1-summer-psalms.mp3) ## [Meaning Has More Than Three Numbers](https://www.jjd.io/posts/semantic-frames.html) _2026-07-05 · Justin Donaldson · Justin Donaldson, Ph.D._ Why would meaning stop at three? Last month we went looking for Charles Osgood’s 1957 semantic differential inside a small language model, and found it: Evaluation , Potency , and Activity , recovered as three nearly-perpendicular directions in the hidden states of SmolLM2-1.7B, kept separate just as Osgood’s factor analysis insisted. That post ended with a tidy result and an untidy question.… ## [Non-custodial Crypto Payments & Escrow (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/uQ3mdlLz0zAl) _2026-07-04 · **Sponsored**_ Accept multi-chain crypto with trustless escrow, instant confirmations, and no KYC ## [A 1.7B Model That Stops Guessing](https://www.jjd.io/posts/swollm-bbh-leaderboard.html) _2026-06-27 · Justin Donaldson · Justin Donaldson, Ph.D._ swollm — SmolLM2-1.7B with the Turnstyle layer bolted on. A small model doesn’t usually fail because it can’t compute the answer. It fails because it won’t stop guessing long enough to compute it. BIG-Bench Hard (BBH) is a curated set of tasks where, at the time it was assembled, language models did worse than the average human rater: multi-step arithmetic, tracking shuffled objects, Dyck-language… ## Father's Day _2026-06-21 · Victory Family Church - Chickasha_ Sunday at Victory Family Church with Pastor Christian Murillo. [Listen](https://www.buzzsprout.com/925432/episodes/19390539-father-s-day.mp3) ## [A 1957 Theory of Meaning, Hiding in a Language Model](https://www.jjd.io/posts/osgood-epa-language-model.html) _2026-06-20 · Justin Donaldson · Justin Donaldson, Ph.D._ Meaning, Osgood found, is mostly three numbers. — paraphrasing The Measurement of Meaning (Osgood, Suci & Tannenbaum, 1957) Charles E. Osgood (1916–1991), who set out to measure meaning with paper rating scales. Photo via PeoplePill. In 1957, the psychologist Charles Osgood handed people a word— tornado , mother , nuclear —and a stack of rating scales: good–bad , strong–weak , fast–slow , hot–cold… ## I Am Not The Christ _2026-06-14 · Victory Family Church - Chickasha_ Sunday at Victory Family Church with Pastor Tyre Terry. [Listen](https://www.buzzsprout.com/925432/episodes/19351169-i-am-not-the-christ.mp3) ## [Don’t draw so close to the heat, you forget you must eat](https://www.jjd.io/posts/no_free_lunch.html) _2026-06-14 · Justin Donaldson · Justin Donaldson, Ph.D._ Don't draw so close to the heat, you forget you must eat What a conservation theorem says about superintelligence — and why the most beautiful version of the answer is the one to distrust. Justin Donaldson & Claude · June 2026 Don’t become so attached to a poem, you forget truth that lacks lyricism. — Joanna Newsom, “En Gallop” (the title is the line that follows) This started as a conversation… ## The power of the Tongue _2026-06-07 · Victory Family Church - Chickasha_ Sunday at Victory Family Church Chickasha with Pastor Christian Murillo. [Listen](https://www.buzzsprout.com/925432/episodes/19308546-the-power-of-the-tongue.mp3) ## [I need your help with this painting competition!](https://justindonaldson1.substack.com/p/a-painting-competition) _2026-06-05 · Justin Donaldson · Justin Donaldson_ I need your help! ## The Tower Of Babel _2026-06-01 · Victory Family Church - Chickasha_ Sunday at Victory Family Church with Pastor Chirstian Murillo [Listen](https://www.buzzsprout.com/925432/episodes/19274068-the-tower-of-babel.mp3) ## [Gospel of John WK 10 | Man Challenge | Matt Reagan](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mcsmmbs/episodes/Gospel-of-John-WK-10--Man-Challenge--Matt-Reagan-e3jmlac) _2026-05-21 · SECC | MC - SMMBS · Men's Ministry | Southeast Christian Church_ Matt Reagan teaching on John 8:39-59. Below are discussion questions from his teaching: Where am I most tempted to focus on outward appearance instead of inward transformation? What role does approval or recognition from others play in my spiritual life? Is there any area of my life where I’ve learned to hide deadness instead of bringing it into the light? Have I allowed religious knowledge,… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/132d1ff0/podcast/play/120328972/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-4-21%2F424611160-44100-2-d866c71081bd7.m4a) ## [Gospel of John WK 9 | Man Challenge | Chris Morgan](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mcsmmbs/episodes/Gospel-of-John-WK-9--Man-Challenge--Chris-Morgan-e3jbv0r) _2026-05-14 · SECC | MC - SMMBS · Men's Ministry | Southeast Christian Church_ Chris Morgan teaching on John 8:31-38. Below are discussion questions from his teaching: What tends to pull us away from staying rooted (abiding) in truth? What are some things people commonly believe will bring freedom, but actually end up controlling them instead? Why is it sometimes hard for people to recognize areas where they are spiritually, emotionally, or personally in bondage? How does… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/132d1ff0/podcast/play/119978459/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-4-14%2F424138140-44100-2-8d8bbafa77fab.m4a) ## [Persona-led AI publishing (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/qasVdDRuQISn) _2026-05-14 · **Sponsored**_ Generate drafts, schedule subdomain publishing, and keep human review where needed. ## [Gospel of John WK 8 | Saturday Morning Men's Bible Study | Joe Donaldson](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mcsmmbs/episodes/Gospel-of-John-WK-8--Saturday-Morning-Mens-Bible-Study--Joe-Donaldson-e3j4e7b) _2026-05-09 · SECC | MC - SMMBS · Men's Ministry | Southeast Christian Church_ Joe Donaldson teaching on John 8:12-30. Below are discussion questions from his teaching: Are you more confident with your knowing of Jesus or God the Father? Why? Which aspect of Jesus as the Light of the world is most compelling to you today? If you truly knew, and were totally confident, in where you came from and where you are going: how would it impact your life today? [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/132d1ff0/podcast/play/119731883/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-4-9%2F423808154-44100-2-9435a0dd1befb.m4a) ## [Gospel of John WK 8 | Man Challenge | Joe Donaldson](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mcsmmbs/episodes/Gospel-of-John-WK-8--Man-Challenge--Joe-Donaldson-e3j1ar8) _2026-05-07 · SECC | MC - SMMBS · Men's Ministry | Southeast Christian Church_ Joe Donaldson teaching on John 8:12-30. Below are discussion questions from his teaching: Are you more confident with your knowing of Jesus or God the Father? Why? Which aspect of Jesus as the Light of the world is most compelling to you today? If you truly knew, and were totally confident, in where you came from and where you are going: how would it impact your life today? [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/132d1ff0/podcast/play/119630120/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-4-7%2F423675747-44100-2-686af0a57a835.m4a) ## [Gospel of John WK 7 | Saturday Morning Men's Bible Study | Sam Reader](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mcsmmbs/episodes/Gospel-of-John-WK-7--Saturday-Morning-Mens-Bible-Study--Sam-Reader-e3iph87) _2026-05-02 · SECC | MC - SMMBS · Men's Ministry | Southeast Christian Church_ Sam Reader teaching on John 7:53-8:11. Below are discussion questions from his teaching: Have you ever been caught? What happened and what did you learn from it? How do you handle the Word? Is this an area where you need to grow/mature? Who do you relate to the most in the story? And why [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/132d1ff0/podcast/play/119374535/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-4-2%2F423320155-44100-2-ba7e4b0fee5b.m4a) ## [Gospel of John WK 7 | Man Challenge | Sam Reader](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mcsmmbs/episodes/Gospel-of-John-WK-7--Man-Challenge--Sam-Reader-e3imhrh) _2026-04-30 · SECC | MC - SMMBS · Men's Ministry | Southeast Christian Church_ Sam Reader teaching on John 7:53-8:11. Below are discussion questions from his teaching: Have you ever been caught? What happened and what did you learn from it? How do you handle the Word? Is this an area where you need to grow/mature? Who do you relate to the most in the story? And why [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/132d1ff0/podcast/play/119276849/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-3-30%2F423187471-44100-2-6242d2c8a484d.m4a) ## [Gospel of John WK 6 | Saturday Morning Men's Bible Study | Chris Morgan](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mcsmmbs/episodes/Gospel-of-John-WK-6--Saturday-Morning-Mens-Bible-Study--Chris-Morgan-e3ieveq) _2026-04-25 · SECC | MC - SMMBS · Men's Ministry | Southeast Christian Church_ Chris Morgan teaching on John 7:25-52. Below are discussion questions from his teaching: Where do you feel pressure to go along with the crowd instead of forming your own conviction about truth? What makes that hard to resist? What are some modern ways we “judge by appearances” in faith, leadership, or people—and how does that distort our decisions? When have you stayed silent even though you… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/132d1ff0/podcast/play/119028634/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-3-25%2F422851678-44100-2-feb3fb4560f3f.m4a) ## [Gospel of John WK 6 | Man Challenge | Tim Hester](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mcsmmbs/episodes/Gospel-of-John-WK-6--Man-Challenge--Tim-Hester-e3ibjt1) _2026-04-23 · SECC | MC - SMMBS · Men's Ministry | Southeast Christian Church_ Tim Hester teaching on John 7:25-52. Below are discussion questions from his teaching: What miracles have you seen that cause you to believe? What is THE thing inside of you that you yearn to be fulfilled? For me it's "am I enough?" - Can you be proud of me? What "wells" are you drinking from that are just not satisfying you? Why not just submit to Him ... today?? What is the hold up? [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/132d1ff0/podcast/play/118918497/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-3-23%2F422692548-44100-2-5cfb5e71d63f3.m4a) ## [Creating a Surgical Energy Map](https://www.jjd.io/posts/gudid_landscape.html) _2026-02-22 · Justin Donaldson · Justin Donaldson, Ph.D._ An AI read 34,000 FDA electrosurgical device descriptions and drew a map. The map makes sense. Not in a “well, if you squint” way. In a “the Yasargil fenestrated forceps cluster sits right next to the Yasargil stop-pin cluster, and both neighbor the irrigating Yasargil variants” way. In a “footswitches are at the edge because their descriptions talk about pedals, not tissue” way. The dataset is a… ## [When life thrives](https://justindonaldson1.substack.com/p/when-life-thrives) _2026-02-12 · Justin Donaldson · Justin Donaldson_ painting in the "City of Rocks", NM [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/187796666/c75279c7a618a63d002f6ffb298a7153.mp3) ## [Clear Conversations with Justin Donaldson](https://justindonaldson1.substack.com/p/clear-conversations-with-justin-donaldson) _2026-02-12 · Justin Donaldson · Justin Donaldson_ A recording from Justin Donaldson and Josh Woll's live video [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/187787332/89b5eb5c74ed2f71e44063a57396f2df.mp3) ## [Dense vs MoE: Claude Opus 4.5 vs Kimi K2.5](https://www.jjd.io/posts/claude_vs_kimi_debate.html) _2026-01-31 · Justin Donaldson · Justin Donaldson, Ph.D._ The Setup I wanted to see if two AI models could have a genuine technical debate — and whether one could be argued into conceding a point. So I picked a topic guaranteed to be personal: I asked Claude Opus 4.5 (a dense transformer) to argue that dense models are architecturally superior to Mixture-of-Experts models, against Kimi K2.5 (a 1T parameter MoE model with 32B active parameters from… ## [Watch chovy live code (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/0n8su1E7fXoS) _2026-01-30 · **Sponsored**_ Join Mosh Coding streams with collaborative screen sharing and remote control, open source. ## [Why I quit digital painting](https://justindonaldson1.substack.com/p/why-i-quit-digital-painting) _2026-01-26 · Justin Donaldson · Justin Donaldson_ I was really proud of this digital painting. ## [Painting out west!](https://justindonaldson1.substack.com/p/painting-out-west) _2026-01-15 · Justin Donaldson · Justin Donaldson_ tomorrow it begins, and you can help ## [Painting Acadia in the Fall](https://justindonaldson1.substack.com/p/painting-acadia-in-the-fall) _2025-12-16 · Justin Donaldson · Justin Donaldson_ of rocks, gulls and Sorolla ## [The Journey Begins Here](https://justindonaldson1.substack.com/p/the-journey-begins-here) _2025-12-12 · Justin Donaldson · Justin Donaldson_ Journal of a traveling artist ## [Semantic Proprioception: Teaching Data to Understand Itself](https://www.jjd.io/posts/semantic-proprioception-demo.html) _2025-11-22 · Justin Donaldson · Justin Donaldson, Ph.D._ Semantic Proprioception: Teaching Data to Understand Itself Just as proprioception lets you sense where your body is in space without looking, semantic proprioception gives data the ability to understand its own internal structure. No manual labeling, no predefined categories—just the data revealing patterns within itself. I’ve built a live demo that shows this in action across three very… ## [Painting waterfalls](https://justindonaldson1.substack.com/p/painting-waterfalls) _2025-07-22 · Justin Donaldson · Justin Donaldson_ finding your obsession and diving into it. ## [Intelligence Chases Chaos](https://www.jjd.io/posts/intelligence_chases_chaos.html) _2025-02-03 · Justin Donaldson · Justin Donaldson, Ph.D._ Intelligence Chases Chaos Fractals have an astonishing property: their dimensionality is only a fraction of the space they inhabit. The paths of hurricanes, the spread of wildfires, the beating of the human heart—all of these chaotic systems play out in a space far smaller than their theoretical possibilities. One way of better understanding fractal dimensionality is to understand that it’s not a… ## [Creating an LLM Agent for Books](https://www.jjd.io/posts/book_bot.html) _2024-12-16 · Justin Donaldson · Justin Donaldson, Ph.D._ Book Bot When AI Meets Family Legacy: A New Way to Interface with Investment Literature In an era where ChatGPT makes headlines and generative AI seems to be everywhere, traditional books might appear antiquated. Yet, there’s something powerful about the permanence of printed wisdom—especially when it captures pivotal moments in financial history and personal (and humbling) revelation. I recently…