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Active inference agents minimise the expected free energy over a trajectory of actions. Free energy over a trajectory is the divergence between the variational distribution Q(o|π) of expected outcomes, o, given the action policy, π, and P(o|C): the conditioned probability of…

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Upon reading “On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models”, 2.3 “Robotics”, I predict that manufacturing automation could, and probably will be…

Apr 29

The statement from the title of this post is the result of combining several ideas which I present below. This is still a very vague statement (in which…

Apr 11

Specialised/extended version of Project alphas. This ontology could be used in the practices/disciplines of entrepreneurship (notably, governance…

Jan 30

System analysis, risk analysis, requirements management, systems management, system synthesis, enterprise architecture, and change management

Jan 24

Note-taking systems (wikis, Zettelkasten) suit well for personal research and reasoning/sensemaking in writing but not so much for memoising stuff, as I…

Jan 22

For the purposes of this post, a model is a nebulous concept related to a mathematical function, but not equivalent to it. A function is an “ideal…

Jan 18

Principles, causal models, the role of intuition in business, PR FAQ, people-centric approach to invention, critical rationalism

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