Venkatesh Rao Graph Minds Notebook: This series explores the phenomenology of large, networked groups of humans, with and without computers in the mix. (Collective Intelligence) (more)

Global Positioning System http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS (more)

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)