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Distilling free-form natural laws from experimental data
Since his Phd, Michael Schmidt has gone on to found Nutonian, which produced Eurequa software, apparently without dramatic new features other than being able to use the cloud for equation search. (Probably he improved many other detailed facets of the software..). Nutonian received $4M in seed funding, according to Crunchbase. In 2017, Nutonian was acquired by Data Robot (for an undisclosed amount), where Michael has worked since, rising to the title of CTO. Always interesting to follow up on the authors of these classic papers! | ||||||||||||||
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PMID-17021028[0] Correlations Between the Same Motor Cortex Cells and Arm Muscles During a Trained Task, Free Behavior, and Natural Sleep in the Macaque Monkey
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PMID-28777724 Active inference, curiosity and insight. Karl J. Friston, Marco Lin, Christopher D. Frith, Giovanni Pezzulo,
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Useful numbers for estimating molecular mean-free-path in vacuum systems: "
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The Coming War on General Computation "M.P.s and Congressmen and so on are elected to represent districts and people, not disciplines and issues. We don't have a Member of Parliament for biochemistry, and we don't have a Senator from the great state of urban planning, and we don't have an M.E.P. from child welfare. " | ||||||||||||||
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My letter to a friend regarding images/817_1.pdf The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory? PMID-20068583 -- like all critics, i feel the world will benefit from my criticism ;-) Hey , I did read that paper on the plane, and wrote down some comments, but haven't had a chance to actually send them until now. err..anyway.. might as well send them since I did bother writing stuff down: I thought the paper was interesting, but rather specious, especially the way the author makes 'surprise' something to be minimized. This is blatantly false! Humans and other mammals (at least) like being surprised (in the normal meaning of the word). He says things like: "This is where free energy comes in: free energy is an upper bound on surprise, which means that if agents minimize free energy, they implicity minimize surprise -- a huge logical jump, and not one that I'm willing to accept. I feel like this author is trying to capitalize on some recent developments, like variational bayes and ensemble learning, without fully understanding them or having the mathematical chops (like Hayen) to flesh it out. So far as I understand, large theories (as this proposes to be) are useful in that they permit derivation of particular update equations; Variational Bayes for example takes the Kullbeck-Leibler divergence & a factorization of the posterior to create EM update equations. So, even if the free energy idea is valid, the author uses it at such a level to make no useful, mathy predictions. One area where I agree with him is that the nervous system create a model of the internal world, for the purpose of prediction. Yes, maybe this allows 'surprise' to be minimized. But animals minimize surprise not because of free energy, but rather for the much more quotidian reason that surprise can be dangerous. Finally, i wholly reject the idea that value and surprise can be equated or even similar. They seem orthogonal to me! Value is assigned to things that help an animal survive and multiply, surprise is things it's nervous system does not expect. All these things make sense when cast against the theories of evolurion and selection. Perhaps, perhaps selection is a consequence of decreasing free energy - this intuitively and somewhat amorphously/mystically makes sense (the aggregate consequence of life on earth is somehow order, harmony and other 'goodstuff' (but this is an anthropocentric view)) - but if so the author should be able to make more coherent / mathematical prediction of observed phenomena. Eg. why animals locally violate the second law of thermodynamics. Despite my critique, thanks for sending the article, made me think. Maybe you don't want to read it now and I saved you some time ;-) | ||||||||||||||
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Tim's list of skate-like devices, sorted by flatland speed, descending order:
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date: 08-01-2007 14:40 gmt
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http://www.johanforrer.net/BLACKFIN/index.html very good, very instructive. |