Honestly, I’ve just had to go back and forth banging my head on Friston’s free-energy papers, non-Fristonfree-energy papers, and the ordinary variational inference literature—for the past two years, prior to which I spent three years banging my head on the Josh Tenenbaum-y computational cog-sci literature and got used to seeing probabilistic models of cognition.
I’m now really fucking glad to be in a PhD program where I can actually use that knowledge.
Oh, and btw, everyone at MIRI was exactly as confused as Scott is when I presented a bunch of free-energy stuff to them last March.
That was much more informative than most of the papers. Did you learn this by parsing the papers or from another better source?
Honestly, I’ve just had to go back and forth banging my head on Friston’s free-energy papers, non-Friston free-energy papers, and the ordinary variational inference literature—for the past two years, prior to which I spent three years banging my head on the Josh Tenenbaum-y computational cog-sci literature and got used to seeing probabilistic models of cognition.
I’m now really fucking glad to be in a PhD program where I can actually use that knowledge.
Oh, and btw, everyone at MIRI was exactly as confused as Scott is when I presented a bunch of free-energy stuff to them last March.