2021 Quarterly Roundtable #1

hello and welcome everyone to the active inference lab this is a special active inference live stream it is march 2nd 2021 and this is our first quarterly roundtable for the active inference lap so this should be a pretty fun and unique stream welcome to the active inference lab everyone we're a participatory online lab that is communicating learning and practicing applied active inference you can find us on our website twitter through email our youtube channel our keybase or our discord teams which we're going to go into later in the stream so if you're curious about what each of these different platforms are for we're going to get there this is a recorded and an archived live stream so please provide us with feedback so that we can improve on our work all backgrounds and perspectives are welcome here and we will use video etiquette netiquette for live streams including muting and using respectful speech behavior let's just take a step back and look at where we're at on our calendar it's march 2nd and here we are with our first quarterly roundtable it's been a pretty interesting year with two months of weekly discussions and a couple other things we'll go into but to keep the um papers two per month and then to keep it nice and not have dot one and dot two that break across months we inserted some quarterly round tables and so here we are at the first one the goals of the quarterly round table at least for today are first to summarize the results of our quarterly activity secondly to show for a broad audience what we're working on and doing and learning and then third continue and amplify our call for participation through deep time so if you're watching live that's awesome we look forward to your comments and questions in the live chat if you're watching it in replay it's not too late to get involved because we'll still be around and so if you're still interested then we'll still be there the sections of today we're gonna go around and have introductions then we're gonna take a strategic perspective on what the active inference lab is and give a little narrative information for those who might be curious then we're going to go into updates from each of our three organizational units which are edu dot coms and dot tools and then in future we'll just recap some ideas on next steps and on the needs for each of the main units of the lap so without further ado we are on the introduction and the warm-ups we'll just go around and introduce ourselves and we'll use our regular um approach which is just first we'll just um say hello however we want to um give information about herself and then pass it to somebody who hasn't spoken yet and then after everybody has introduced himself we'll um using the raise hand feature in jitsi will go through some of these warm-up questions and it will be awesome to hear from everyone so my name is daniel friedman i'm a postdoc in california and uh have been doing most of these live streams for active inference lab and i'm just looking forward to this first quarterly roundtable and i'll pass it to sasha hello my name is sasha i'm a neuroscience graduate student and based out of davis california and yeah i'm just uh looking forward to reviewing what's happened in the last quarter and um inviting people to join us and i will pass it to alex thanks hi everyone uh i'm alex welkin i'm in moscow russia i'm researching systems management school and also co-organizer for active inference lab we will try to join approach of active inference framework and systems engineering framework and i pass it to scott thank you alex my name is scott david i'm the director of the information risk research initiative at the university of washington applied physics lab we're using active inference concepts and trying to learn active inference concepts to use in our work on information risk mitigation structures i'll pass it to stephen thank you hello i'm stephen i'm based in toronto i'm doing a practice based phd through…