It’s a white fleece throw, custom-printed with a black-and-white portrait of a stern, bearded Russian mathematician named Andrei Andreyevich Markov, who died in 1922. The blanket is a gag gift from Friston’s son, a plush, polyester inside joke about an idea that has become central to the free energy principle. Markov is the eponym of a concept called a Markov blanket, which in machine learning is essentially a shield that separates one set of variables from others in a layered, hierarchical system. The psychologist Christopher Frith—who has an h-index on par with Friston’s—once described a Markov blanket as “a cognitive version of a cell membrane, shielding states inside the blanket from states outside.”

Friston was assigned a group of 32 chronic schizophrenic patients, the worst-off residents of Littlemore, for whom treatment mostly meant containment. For Friston, who recalls his former patients with evident nostalgia, it was an introduction to the way that connections in the brain were easily broken. “It was a beautiful place to work,” he says. “This little community of intense and florid psychopathology.”

Lin had noticed a gap between himself and mainlanders his age. It made doing business difficult sometimes. Perhaps one of the differences, he said, was the amount of education. Despite pressing, he said little else; it was something he felt uncomfortable or maybe incapable of describing.

Sample some truly amazing gastronomy from students of the ProStart program, and in the process will learn more about the culinary and hospitality scene in WNY. ProStart is a nationwide, two-year high school program that unites classroom and industry to develop the best and brightest talent into tomorrow’s restaurant and food service leaders. The WNY Chapter of the New York State Restaurant Association uses all proceeds from the event to fund scholarships for local culinary students. Since the inception of the Taste of Education event, over $130,000 in scholarships have been awarded to local students to continue their education in the hospitality field. Participating schools will also receive $1,500 per team toward the statewide ProStart Invitational Competition, to be held in March at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY.

Susan Anspach, 75. Leading lady of the ‘70s who appeared in such films as “Play It Again, Sam” and “The Big Fix.” April 2.

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About Sophistafunk: Fans across America are talking about Syracuse-based Sophistafunk, the product of three multi-talented musicians — Adam Gold, Jack Brown, & Emanuel Washington — who combine spoken-word artistry, old-school hip hop & funky rhythms to create a unique live band experience.

Dr. Mele’s work has been recognized with the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics, the Europhysics Prize of the European Physical Society and the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching. Dr. Kane has received the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics, the Dirac Medal and the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize.

To talk about ‘4 percent of nameplate capacity’ is grossly misleading and, in fact, makes no sense. If you want to talk about performance you have to compare the expected energy produced (based on solar models for the location) to actual energy produced. If that energy is sold to the grid and the operators can make money, you have what we call a ‘business’. This is what has been happening in Alberta for more than 20 years, under multiple governments.

2019 WTI oil prices are generally predicted to be in a range of about $50 to $60 per barrel. And global E&P spending is expected to be up high single-digits based on $60 oil. At $50 oil, however, we would expect customer spending to be down from 2018.

And in fact, this is how the free energy principle accounts for everything we do: perception, action, planning, problem solving. When I get into the car to run an errand, I am minimizing free energy by confirming my hypothesis—my fantasy—through action.

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