Tag: Principle

What does it mean to be alive? The Free Energy Principle (FEP) is one of the more elegant theories to attempt an answer to this question. Developed by Karl Friston and others from the mid-2000s onward, the FEP builds on and integrates a number of key ideas from cybernetics, predi...

Attention mechanism is the core component of transformer models and plays a crucial role in LLM models. Let’s consider the task of translating the sentence “the cat ate the mouse” from English to French. One approach is to use an encoder-decoder model, a popular choice for sente...

The world is constantly urging us to define our lives by the outcomes we achieve. You set a goal for yourself and succeed — life is a blast. If you struggle or fall flat on your face, life is terrible. This model of reality causes us to live on a see-saw of happiness and despair where we sp...