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Expected Ambiguity

The expected conditional entropy of outcomes given hidden states; lowering ambiguity favors states that solicit unambiguous observations.

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Concepts (2)

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    Multiple possible meanings for words like Alice, disambiguated by context; harder when grammar and meaning intertwine
  • Expected Free Energy
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cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edge

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  • extentconcept0.739
    The set of objects A of a formal concept (A,B).
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    The KL divergence between predicted and preferred outcomes, minimized by policies that realize prior preferences.