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"Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About (Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes)" Table Of Contents:

• 1- Why I am unqualified to give these lectures
• 2- Why the lectures might be interesting anyway
• 3- The 3:16 project, a turning point in my life
• 4- Randomization and Religion
• 5- The advantages of unbiased sampling as a way to gain insight into a complicated subject
• 6- Dangers to avoid when using this approach
• 7- Language Translation
• 8- How to translate Bible verses without knowing Hebrew or Greek
• 9- The surprising rewards of such attempts, even though the task is difficult or impossible
• 10- Aesthetics
• 11- Scientific work as an artistic endeavor
• 12- The deep influence that beautiful presentation can have on our understanding of texts
• 13- Illustrations by many of the world's greatest masters of calligraphy
• 14- Glimpses of God
• 15- What I think I learned about God from the 3:16 project
• 16- What I think I learned about theology from the 3:16 project
• 17- The difference between the two
• 18- God and Computer Science
• 19- Computer programmers as creators of new universes
• 20- Computational complexity as a way to approach the questions of free will and omnipotence
• 21- Other concepts of computer science that may give insights about divinity
• 22- Panel: Creativity, Spirituality, and Computer Science

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