karma

I don't know if this makes sense, but one intuition I have for karma comes from the observation that the weights of a least-squares linear regression end up being in the span of the training inputs. That is, the learned artifact that determines how the model will react to new inputs can be written as a weighted sum of all of its previous inputs. This doesn't exactly get at the notion of choice, or free will --- that karma accumulates as a consequence of our decisions, not just our experiences --- but it's

NameRedacted recently told me that a 'karma' in Buddhist philosophy is a task that is yet undone. One must be reincarnated until you've discharged all of your karmas---your duties to the world. Every time you're reincarnated, you gain a new karma; if you die without completing it, it adds to the ever-increasing TODO list of your future self. I can't find another reference for this---is it true?