FourGW thinker - But in 1976 I began the debate over maneuver warfare that became a central part of the military reform movement of the 1970s and 1980s. The U.S. MarineCorps finally adopted maneuver warfare as doctrine in the late 80s (I wrote most of their new tactics manual). (more)

Maneuver warfare, or manoeuvre warfare, is a military strategy which seeks to shatter the enemy's overall cohesion and will to fight... Maneuver warfare, the use of initiative, originality and the unexpected, combined with a ruthless determination to succeed,[1] seeks to avoid opponents' strengths while exploiting their weaknesses and attacking their critical vulnerabilities and is the conceptual opposite of attrition warfare. Rather than seeking victory by applying superior force and mass to achieve physical destruction, maneuver uses preemption, deception, dislocation, and disruption to destroy the enemy's will and ability to fight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneuver_warfare (more)

Blitzkrieg (/ˈblɪtskriːɡ/ BLITS-kreeg, German: [ˈblɪtskʁiːk] (listen); from Blitz 'lightning' + Krieg 'war') is a word used to describe a combined arms surprise attack using a rapid, overwhelming force concentration that may consist of armored and motorized or mechanized infantry formations, together with artillery, air assault and close air support, that has the intent to break through the opponent's lines of defense, then dislocate the defenders, unbalance the enemy by making it difficult to respond to the continuously changing front, and defeat them in a decisive Vernichtungsschlacht: a battle of annihilation. During the interwar period, aircraft and tank technologies matured and were combined with systematic application of the traditional German tactic of Bewegungskrieg (maneuver warfare), deep penetrations and the bypassing of enemy strong points to encircle and destroy enemy forces in a Kesselschlacht (cauldron battle/battle of encirclement). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitzkrieg

Process of analyzing a security (aka a company's stock) to determine whether it's price reflects its worth. (more)

an institution that is granted a charter recognizing it as a separate legal entity having its own privileges, and liabilities distinct from those of its members.[1] There are many different forms of corporations, most of which are used to conduct business. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation (more)

"object capability" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-capability_model see Capability Based Security

Spritely is a project to level up the federated social web (Federated SocialNetwork. It builds on our experience from co-authoring ActivityPub, the largest decentralized social network on the web to date, while applying lesser known but powerful ideas from the object capability security (Capability Based Security) community. Spritely consists of a number of modular components bringing new and rich features, from distributed programming, to decentralized storage, to virtual worlds. https://spritelyproject.org/ (more)

I am co-editor of the ActivityPub federated social networking standard, and I co-founded GNU MediaGoblin. https://dustycloud.org/ (CTO of Spritely)

Programming Language (more)

Happy Net Box is an experimental internet social experience based on the arcane and near-forgotten retro internet protocol known as FINGER. (more)

old Internet Presence Detection protocol (more)

Film Industry "rebel"; author Rebel Without A Crew ISBN:0452271878 (more)

Alexis Ohanian book: ReddIt, SOPA, etc. http://withouttheirpermission.com/ ISBN:1455520020 (more)

Sean Johnson: Why AI will make note-taking more powerful. My notes are perhaps my most valuable career asset. (more)

Hone Health: NAD+ May Be The Health-Boosting Antioxidant Of Your Dreams. NAD+ levels decline naturally with age. Declining NAD+ levels have been linked to a number of health issues including diabetes, heart disease, neurodegenerative diseases, cancer, and premature aging. (more)

Genre (from French genre 'kind, or sort'[1]) is any form or type of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially-agreed-upon conventions developed over time.[2] In popular usage, it normally describes a category of literature, music, or other forms of art or entertainment, whether written or spoken, audio or visual, based on some set of stylistic criteria, yet genres can be aesthetic, rhetorical, communicative, or functional. Genres form by conventions that change over time as cultures invent new genres and discontinue the use of old ones... The most general genres in literature are (in loose chronological order) epic, tragedy,[7] comedy, novel, and short story. They can all be in the genres prose or poetry, which shows best how loosely genres are defined. Additionally, a genre such as satire might appear in any of the above, not only as a subgenre but as a mixture of genres. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genre (more)

subset of a genre

In machine learning, fine-tuning is an approach to transfer learning in which the weights of a pre-trained model are trained on new data.[1] Fine-tuning can be done on the entire neural network, or on only a subset of its layers, in which case the layers that are not being fine-tuned are "frozen" (not updated during the backpropagation step)... Fine-tuning is common in natural language processing (NLP), especially in the domain of language modeling. Large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI's GPT-2 can be fine-tuned on downstream[jargon] NLP tasks to produce better results than the pre-trained model can normally achieve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-tuning_(machine_learning)

GODEL is a large-scale pre-trained model for goal-directed dialogs. It is parameterized with a Transformer-based encoder-decoder model and trained for response generation grounded in external text, which allows more effective fine-tuning on dialog tasks that require conditioning the response on information that is external to the current conversation (e.g., a retrieved document). The pre-trained model can be efficiently fine-tuned and adapted to accomplish a new dialog task with a handful of task-specific dialogs. This repository is based on Huggingface Transformers... (Update 10/23/2022) We have released GODEL V1.1, which is trained on 551M multi-turn dialogs from Reddit discussion thread, and 5M instruction and knowledge grounded dialogs. It has shown significantly better results on our benchmark, especially in the zero-shot setting. https://github.com/microsoft/GODEL (chatbot) (built in Python)

LGBT is an initialism that stands for "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender." In use since the 1990s, the initialism, as well as some of its common variants, functions as an umbrella term for certain sexualities and gender identities.[1] The LGBT term is an adaptation of the initialism LGB, which began to replace the term gay (or gay and lesbian) in reference to the broader LGBT community beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s.[2] When not inclusive of transgender people, the shorter term LGB is still used instead of LGBT.[3][4] It may refer to anyone who is non-heterosexual or non-cisgender, instead of exclusively to people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender.[5] To recognize this inclusion, a popular variant, LGBTQ, adds the letter Q for those who identify as queer or are questioning their sexual or gender identity.[6] The initialisms LGBT or GLBT are not agreed to by everyone that they are supposed to include. (also LGBTQIA) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT