Why Shifting to the Object-Oriented Coding Approach REALLY IS Important: Well, I hate having to admit it. Mud on my face; all that. But I made a pretty significant Whoops! back this last winter when I posted a “Verification and Validation” document (hah!) to arXiv. The Sad Story of My Previous Ineptitude Well, there’s nothing like hearing about someone else’s screw-up in order to make us feel better about our own life, so here goes. I’d…
The Cluster Variation Method – A Topographic Approach: Object-oriented programming is essential for working with the Cluster Variation Method (CVM), especially if we’re going to insert a CVM layer into a neural network. The reason is that approaching free energy minima via changing node states requires dealing with node, net, and grid topographies. If we’re going to be at all strategic in moving towards free energy minima, then we can’t just pick nodes at random. We need to know…
New Code (Not Released Yet): V&V the Code Before We Play: Well, my darling, as you gathered from last week’s post, the world has shifted. Up until now, when we were talking about having a new free energy function to use inside a neural network, we had to do “Gedankenexperiments” (German for “thought experiments”). Now, though, there’s working code – and I so LOVE seeing the numbers and graphs come out; teasing it, playing with it … stroking it…