Why the Same Concept Looks Different in Every Paper — and What to Do about It Have you ever picked up a paper on active inference or variational inference and felt genuinely lost? This was not because the math was too hard, but because the symbols seemed to mean something completely different from what you… Continue reading Surviving the Notational Nightmare: A Rosetta Stone
Author: AJ Maren
I Screwed Up (Here’s How I Fixed)!
Three big screw-ups teaching generative AI and active inference – and I learned from each one. This blogpost accompanies the YouTube of the same name. This blogpost is still in progress – please check back tomorrow (Friday, July 24).
Where to Start with Active Inference — A Resource Map for 2026
Why Now? Something is stirring in the active inference world — and if you’ve been paying attention to AI news lately, you may have felt it. [This blogpost accompanies our YouTube: “Your Options for Learning Active Inference.] Over the past several months, AIX Global Innovations introduced Seed IQ™ — a technology built on active inference… Continue reading Where to Start with Active Inference — A Resource Map for 2026
Meet Jay Kumar Chimata: JobFirst.ai and the Real AI Job Market
We had the privilege and pleasure of meeting (Themesis Open House Zoom-Salon) with Spark InfoTech Founder Jay Kumar Chimata on Sunday, May 31, 2026 (https://sparkinfotech.com/ ). Jay Kumar Chimata brings a rare combination of perspectives to the question of AI and employment: he has built AI systems at scale, and he places AI talent into… Continue reading Meet Jay Kumar Chimata: JobFirst.ai and the Real AI Job Market
Deep Learning, Transformers, and SeedIQ™ – Three Industry Breakthroughs and the Pattern That Connects Them
Why SeedIQ™ Is the Third Great AI Breakthrough — And What Deep Learning and Transformers Tell Us About What Comes Next
SeedIQ™ Just Stomped ARC-AGI 3 on a MacBook Pro. Here’s Why That Changes Everything
“That’s your lede,” said Claude. “No, no,” I typed back. “I have something different in mind.” And I laid out my five points planned for this post, which Claude obediently organized into bullet points with supporting phrases. But I could hear Claude grumbling in the background. And this morning – twenty minutes ago, at 4:50… Continue reading SeedIQ™ Just Stomped ARC-AGI 3 on a MacBook Pro. Here’s Why That Changes Everything
The AGI Landscape Just Changed: SeedIQ(TM), Active Inference, and What ARC-AGI 3 Actually Tells Us
An incredible roller-coaster of a couple of weeks! Every time I think I’ve wrapped my head around the big storyline – the big breakthroughs, how they all connect together into a meaningful arc – every time I feel organized to write something – there’s a massive new breakthrough. These last two weeks topped everything. What… Continue reading The AGI Landscape Just Changed: SeedIQ(TM), Active Inference, and What ARC-AGI 3 Actually Tells Us
Claude Projects: Week 1 – Tactics Learned
A week ago, everything shifted. I went from NOT using AI at all, in my daily life (except for brief, as-needed dabbles with MidJourney) to full-on immersion with Claude Projects. The reasons? Threefold, really: So – not knowing what to expect, having NO positive prior experience, but having heard good things about using Claude Projects… Continue reading Claude Projects: Week 1 – Tactics Learned
AI Is Tummy-Churning
I let AI make me sick this last week. To be more precise, I let my own interactions with AI make me sick – that is, a real tummy-churning episode. More than once. MULTIPLE times. And yeah, literally, multiple “where’s the antacid?” moments. And I handled it … BADLY. Various kinds of AI news finally… Continue reading AI Is Tummy-Churning
World Models: JEPA and VL-JEPA
This blogpost provides a more extensive summary of the JEPA (Jonit Embedding Predictive Architecture) and VL-JEPA (Vision-Language JEPA) architectures developed by Yann LeCun. An earlier world models overview blogpost gave an initial summary and preliminary resource set. This blogpost provides: VL-JEPA: Some Introductory YouTubes This YouTube by AI Revolution provides a very easy-to-understand contrast-and-compare between… Continue reading World Models: JEPA and VL-JEPA