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Active inference interpretation of the startup culture
Active inference agents minimise the expected free energy over a trajectory of actions. Free energy over a trajectory is the divergence between the…
May 13
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Manufacturing will be done without foundation models
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
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The purpose of life is to participate in evolution through action
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
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Alphas of organisation
Specialised/extended version of Project alphas. This ontology could be used in the practices/disciplines of entrepreneurship (notably, governance…
Jan 30
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The practices of information systems architecture
System analysis, risk analysis, requirements management, systems management, system synthesis, enterprise architecture, and change management
Jan 24
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On writing systems for collective intelligence
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
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Types of models, algorithms, theories, and explanations
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
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Summary of "Working Backwards", a book about Amazon's culture
Principles, causal models, the role of intuition in business, PR FAQ, people-centric approach to invention, critical rationalism
Jan 17
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Megapost about causality: the summary of "The Book of Why" by Pearl and Mackenzie and more ideas
Statistics, causality, causal modelling, mediation analysis, counterfactuals, philosophy of research, causal representation learning, ethical AI, the…
Jan 13
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Use ontologies as checklists
In Anatoly Levenchuk’s book Education for Educated (in Russian), I’ve encountered a very powerful idea that ontologies (or, less formally, lists of…
Jan 7
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Formal reasoning, intuition, and embodied cognition in decision making
Thinking/reasoning of both humans and machines could be arranged along the formality gradient of semantics. This picture is adapted from Anatoly…
Jan 6
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Review of "Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned" by Stanley and Lehman
Kenneth Stanley's and Joel Lehman's book Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective has two components: theoretical, describing…
Dec 4, 2021
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