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The Free Energy Principle with Dr. Maxwell Ramstead

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The Variational Free Energy of Covariance Models

Causality flows from hidden states to data. You can also think of prediction is going in this way, right? So like if you have a model of how some phenomenon it works, you can predict that you'll be generating this kind of data rather than that kind ofData. That's sort of the point of being able to use these predictive models. I mean, you see this a lot with the COVID modeling, right? People have amodel of how the process, the propagation process happens. And so that they kind of can project the kinds of data that they will be registering in the future.

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