3 ms·
IBAL is quite old; you're probably better off learning something that's still being actively maintained. The natural choice would be Avi Pfeffer's new language,
by davmre 12y ago
IBAL is quite old; you're probably better off learning something that's still being actively maintained. The natural choice would be Avi Pfeffer's new language, Figaro (https://www.cra.com/commercial-solutions/probabilistic-modeling-services.asp https://www.cra.com/commercial-solutions/probabilistic-model...).
- JadeNB 12y agoThank you! I will have a look at it. Do you know if there's any analogue of the 99 Haskell / Lisp / Prolog problems list geared toward probabilistic programming?
- davmre 12y agoNot as far as I know. The closest I can think of is Josh Tenenbaum and Noah Goodman's online book "Probabilistic Models of Cognition", https://probmods.org https://probmods.org, which has lots of examples of simple models, written in Church; these could be a good set of exercises to try translating into Figaro. Though these systems are immature enough that there's no guarantee Figaro will actually work on the translated models (or that Church will even work on the originals :-).