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We're working on something like this: https://causal.app https://causal.app :) Guesstimate is awesome, but their team sadly stopped working on it a while back.
by refrigerator 7y ago
We're working on something like this: https://causal.app https://causal.app :)
Guesstimate is awesome, but their team sadly stopped working on it a while back. It's definitely early days for automated inference, but I think giving people the tools to build "static" (non-learning) models that can account for uncertainty is hugely valuable in itself. You need serious gymnastics to do this in spreadsheets right now, and I wouldn't wish Excel's probabilistic plugins (Palisade @RISK, Oracle Crystal Ball) on anyone.
But progress towards the "inference button" dream is starting to accelerate:
- Tensorflow recently got its own PPL [1]
- The first international conference on probabilistic programming was held (PROBPROG 2018) [2]
- Lots of PPL development going on in tech companies: Uber, FB, Google, Microsoft, Stripe, Improbable, etc.
[1]: https://www.tensorflow.org/probability https://www.tensorflow.org/probability
[2]: https://probprog.cc/ https://probprog.cc/
- cheerlessbog 7y agoMicrosoft recently released a probabilistic programming library for .NET named Infer.NET [1] [1] https://github.com/dotnet/infer https://github.com/dotnet/infer
- rahulravu96 7y agoThey recently open sourced it. It was previewed in lectures from Christopher Bishop more than 10 years ago. 1) https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/infernet/ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/infernet/ 2) http://videolectures.net/mlss09uk_bishop_ibi/ http://videolectures.net/mlss09uk_bishop_ibi/