# Steven Rude These are self-reported registration answers, not an assessment or a verified identity. ## Background 20+ years basic science biomedical research in vestíbulo-ocular reflex and the neural physiology of cerebellar sensory prediction and error correction, overlapping with 10+ years teaching general human anatomy and physiology and neuroanatomy, 18 years Vipassana meditation ## Active Inference Application still learning; applying techniques to TVB (https://thevirtualbrain.org), conf. Virtual Brain Inference (VBI), a flexible and integrative toolkit for efficient probabilistic inference on whole-brain models ## Learning Needs Practical tutorial on mathematical nomenclature. ## Provided resources Starting points supplied by the organizers; relevance and suitability have not been assessed. Generalized Notation Notation A text-based notation system for communicating generative models and Active Inference systems that provides a shared language for describing models in a human-readable and machine-processable way. https://github.com/ActiveInferenceInstitute/Generalized_Notation_Notation pymdp Community Python library implementing Active Inference for POMDPs. https://github.com/infer-actively/pymdp Active Inference Ontology Maintains and develops the public ontology for Active Inference and decentralized science with structured, machine-readable definitions. https://github.com/ActiveInferenceInstitute/Active_Inference_Ontology GEO-INFER Geospatial modeling using Active Inference and spatial data analysis techniques. https://github.com/ActiveInferenceInstitute/GEO_INFER Cognitive Agent Modeling Developing minimal cognitive agent models using Active Inference principles. https://github.com/ActiveInferenceInstitute/ActiveInferenceImplementations Reproducible publication template Manuscript infrastructure used to render this Symposium abstract book as PDF and Word documents. https://github.com/docxology/template