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Re:Free energy principle by hnarayanan on Sunday July 15, 2018 @08:30AM (#17534964)
Not completely sure why this is on HN, but I am happy to see it on here! :) A good chunk of my PhD (many years ago) relied on the minimisation of free energy to understand the evolution of biological systems. e.g. Studying the growth of tumours: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0953-8984/22/19/19...

This has prompted me to go take a look at the state of the art.

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Re:Free energy principle by cantrevealname on Sunday July 15, 2018 @10:49AM (#17535452)
You seem eminently well qualified to give us a ELI5 here. How about it? (The other ELI5 here didn't do it for me.)
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Re:Free energy principle by Koshkin on Sunday July 15, 2018 @09:35AM (#17535160)
> why this is on HN

Because [0]

> machine learning

> Bayesian

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variational_Bayesian_methods

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