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It's not a PGM package. It's designed to work with arbitrary Julia programs and can be used for program induction etc. In that regard it's more like WebPPL or C
by Fishysoup 7y ago
It's not a PGM package. It's designed to work with arbitrary Julia programs and can be used for program induction etc. In that regard it's more like WebPPL or Church than Stan.
- scottlocklin 7y agoOP originally linked it to some breathy MIT press release which said "New AI programming language goes beyond deep learning General-purpose language works for computer vision, robotics, statistics, and more" https://news.mit.edu/2019/ai-programming-gen-0626 https://news.mit.edu/2019/ai-programming-gen-0626 I'm pretty sure most sane people agree this is a giant pile of meaningless marketing horse pookey, which is par for the course with MIT these days. That's what I was responding to. And characterizing it as "like stan" is a lot closer to descriptive than anything in that article. I picture whoever writes this stuff for MIT as wearing tap out t-shirts with neck tattoos.
- Fishysoup 7y agoSure, the article is largely meaningless. But I've spent a couple months playing with this package and it is a lot more general than Stan etc.