Textbook Group meeting for Parr, Pezzulo, Friston 2022 .

Hello everyone it is meeting 13 of the active inference textbook group cohort one it is the final meeting of this section it's July 28th 2022 and we are going to be especially thinking about feedback and structuring on this textbook group on how the first half of the first cohort went and also ways that over quite literally the coming minutes and hours and days we will be able to implement structures to improve our experience for those of us who are continuing on to part two cohort one as well as those who are joining for a new cohort in the onboarding page there are two columns with check boxes and clicking these check boxes will sign you up to continue on in chapter six through ten for cohort one as well as or alternatively to join in chapters one through five with cohort two so select one or both of these boxes if you'd like to be continuing on that's the onboarding note and again other than that which i hope those who are here or watching live update according to how they want um other than that we're going to be talking about future textbook groups and other things like that and then also just on the informational briefly on the future textbook group page here's the link to share with people to join future textbook cohorts so to join in and then also please fill out this feedback form it's really important that even if people think they have limited or non-valuable feedback that they provide it because whether it's on this page directly where everyone can edit and so every thought that somebody has like even if right now they can just edit this page or in this more anonymous and asynchronous mode or through direct communication but we're experiencing it and so we have the best insight at this point into how to improve it and the affordances that we're seeing today or the the state updates or however you want to use ontology terms to describe it but what we're seeing today we can do so we should have a fun discussion today on some of those topics and then also look towards project ideas many of which are related to the educational process and um others which are building on education into research and application and so there will be spaces for those as well let's begin though on this future textbook groups page and anywhere where people want to jump in writing or speaking how are we going to summarize and distill the experience of the last few months in this textbook group how are we going to do that in this book and bring it towards improvements in our coming cohorts you from Yeah, I think having worked examples, as I've talked about and discussed with Brock, like in Jupyter notebooks, or even simple, like did you understand the material, like question and answer, like quizzes at the end of each chapter, or something like that, I think would just be useful to gauge your own understanding, like if there is a definition or something that we can directly refer back to in the text, that'd be useful. Okay, worked examples. Yes. Great. And the questions could also include little tests of knowledge. Not every question needs to be throwing a baseball into the deep unknown. It can be literally clarifying for someone who believes that an answer is in the known unknown space. I believe there's an answer for this. I just want to clarify for my understanding. But also, once you've clarified that, and especially if you did just clarify it, then write that example. Because many of these are opportunities for worked examples. examples. And worked examples work in certain situations. For formalisms, for example, it might also work for formalisms that aren't mathematical. Like, here's the system this way, or this phenomena. How do these ontology terms map? Or if this is the blank, then what is the other thing? Okay, so we have... Okay, anyone else? Just go for it. Or let's just continue to edit and organize and add notes and just have more. Because many people are having many thoughts on directions to go. And just like, what is the space…