I'm excited about this @vectara event in Reston on Friday. I've felt so lucky to have met @ofermend during travels to Silicon Valley, now really excited that some of the DC ecosystem can meet him as well as other great leaders from Vectara including @awadallah and
@bobgourley
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Competitive Strategy: Autonomous Capacity and Adversarial Dynamics
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From a 1986 version of "Patterns of Conflict." In competitive environments, the goal is not just to survive, but survive on our own terms and improve our capacity for independent action while diminishing our adversary's capacity to do the same.
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Boyd on Balancing High Tech and Low Tech Strategy
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You don't want to trash low tech. You're going to have to get a mixture of it and you're going to have to understand that mix. Because if you go for high tech and only high tech, you're not going to have much. I'll tell you that right now. — From Boyd’s Congressional Testimony
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Wars Are Fought by People Not Weapons Boyd Testimony
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Wars are fought by people, not weapons.
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Boyd’s Decision Cycles Applied to AI Conflict and Strategy
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Conflict can be viewed as repeated cycles of observing, orienting, deciding and acting by both sides, and also, I might add, at all levels.
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Obsolete Thinking Models Fail in Changing AI Landscape
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Trying to use old ways of thinking in a changing environment is folly and will lead to unexplained and disturbing ambiguities, uncertainties, anomalies and inconsistencies. Models will fail. — Paraphrased from Boyd’s Destruction and Creation
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Adaptive Thinking: Essential for Surviving Technological Change
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Anyone who wants to survive and thrive needs to be able to change how they think. — Paraphrased from the introduction to Boyd’s Destruction and Creation
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Government GPU Clusters Gap in AI Leadership
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Guess how many large GPU clusters the government owns or operates? None. https://
oodaloop.com/archive/2024/1
0/27/securing-the-future-why-the-government-must-invest-in-large-scale-gpu-clusters-to-lead-in-ai/
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Building Our Collective Future: Accelerate Together
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Thankful to all of you building our collective future. Accelerate!
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Acceleration as a Path to Achieving Artificial General Intelligence
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Alternatively, those with the attitude to accelerate could be how we finally find a path to AGI.