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If you continue reading, the author defines this notation:
Here, $\langle \cdot \rangle_q$ means the expectation or mean under the density $q$ and $D(\cdot\ ||\ \cdot)$ is the cross-entropy or Kullback-Leibler divergence between the two densities.
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