Interpreting Karl Friston (Round Deux)
He might be getting a Nobel prize some day. But – no one can understand him. You don’t believe me? Have a quick glance at Scott Alexander’s article, “God Help Us, Let’s Try To Understand Friston On Free Energy”. We’re referring, of course, to Karl Friston. I’ve spent the past three-and-a-half years studying Friston’s approach to free energy, which he treats as the guiding principle in the brain. He has extended the classic variational Bayes treatment (frontier-material in machine learning)…