<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Inferogenesis writing</title><description>Technical posts on active inference and the software that runs it.</description><link>https://inferogenesis.com/writing/</link><item><title>Active Inference, Part 2: From Survival Equations to the Living Brain</title><link>https://www.dj-elliott.com/blog/active-inference-part-2</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.dj-elliott.com/blog/active-inference-part-2</guid><description>A guided tour of Da Costa et al. (2020), &apos;Active inference on discrete state-spaces: a synthesis&apos; — why survival forces an organism to model the world, the Markov blanket, perception as variational free energy, action as expected free energy, and how the maths maps onto real neurons.</description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How to derive Variational Free Energy: A Software Engineer&apos;s Guide - Part 1</title><link>https://www.dj-elliott.com/blog/derive-vfe</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.dj-elliott.com/blog/derive-vfe</guid><description>A guide on deriving Variational Free Energy following &apos;A tutorial on the free-energy framework for modelling perception and learning&apos;(Bogacz 2017)</description><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Active Inference: The Predictive Brain</title><link>https://www.dj-elliott.com/blog/active-inference</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.dj-elliott.com/blog/active-inference</guid><description>A post about Active Inference, the brain as a prediction engine, prediction error, perception vs action, and the free energy principle.</description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>