Textbook Group meeting for Parr, Pezzulo, Friston 2022 .

all right greetings everyone welcome to cohort 4 on June 20th for chapter one discussion we're going to get to chapter one discussion in one second but I wanted to just show one area of development and something that people can explore um and then mention one thing about math learning group so first in the equations page there's a few sub pages that might be interesting to explore first where we previously had the equation screenshots so you could like Mouse over equation 2.1 and click on the screenshot um we added the latex so this is just a plain text code that renders in the platform then there's some sub views that use the platform AI so this explanations View these prompts um basically just to show what it looks like in code AI explain the latex as if I'm not familiar how would a high schooler be interested in this what's some summary code where is this equation important and can you explain the variables it's not perfect but it gets pretty far very cool this is the explanations page there's a philosophy page just one column but it's just bring up 10 philosophy questions and a lot of these are like awesome discussion starting points you know what what does Divergence mean all these things and then also languages so here's just a few languages but we can add people's preferred languages just totally feel free to make a suggestion we can add more AI columns um so we have to keep on exploring this because the latex representation with plain text is really amenable to this kind of language model work so just mention that and then also um someone in cohort for is interested in the math learning group I think they're [Music] um they're potentially interested in like a morning time UTC but if somebody else is interested then we can kind of get this going so it could be in the Discord but if anyone is interested to pick up with math learning group and basically just it could be an unrecorded session in the Discord another hour um to go over the equations um sorry about that um so if anyone is interested um maybe just make write a comment here and just say here sometimes I'd want to do this just basically like a math study time um and then let's just see if there's a any specific options for what times people want to do such activities so on either the AI or the math learning group does anyone have any just general thoughts or questions otherwise we'll move to chapter one all right so let's head over to chapter one um just right off the bat before we get to the um questions it would be awesome if anyone could just share any of their Reflections on chapter one just anything about their experience reading it or what what they felt it was like or what stuck with them or anything that kind of raised after they um read chapter one um yeah um so I've had some familiarity with active inference for a while so a lot of what I read already tracks for me um but that said I'm curious about variational uh free energy is like a particular it seems that so active friends seems to be based on a particular form of Bayesian inference that it relies upon like this variational formulation I'm more curious about that I assume the textbook will get much more into what's specific to variational free energy is as opposed to some other um formulation of it but yeah that's something that that I'm kind of still chewing on right now thank you anyone else Yeah I'd write a chapter one a while ago and I think I just Dove deeper into it knowing that you know we're looking for questions and stuff but I really appreciated the um the video that you and Ollie did so I watched that for the first time today and I really appreciated the heads up to actually read ahead to chapter 10 which I'll do yeah that looks good um for me in this this more in-depth reading um action really stuck out to me um so I went to the ontology to look at the definition of action that's like Central to my area I'm in motor neuroscience uh and I can relate to the idea that action has to have a goal of…