btwillard

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   by btwillard 6y ago

   Hello, I'm the person spearheading this Theano fork! Your comments match my experience with the old Theano very well, so I have to respond. > Apparently, the main new feature for Theano will be the JAX backend. The JAX transpilatio
2. 32.▲
   by btwillard 6y ago

   https://github.com/pymc-devs/Theano-PyMC/issues/10
3. 33.▲
   by btwillard 6y ago

   I'm only one person involved, but my primary reason for choosing Theano over TensorFlow has to do with the ability to manipulate and reason symbolically about models/graphs. In order to improve the performance and usability of PyM
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   by btwillard 6y ago

   I'm the author of the JAX backend in Theano, and, no, this didn't have anything to do with NumPyro--especially since I neither use nor know very much about NumPyro. It was just a quick demonstration of how easily one can use Thean
5. 35.▲
   by btwillard 6y ago

   Check out miniKanren ( http://minikanren.org )!
6. 36.▲
   by btwillard 7y ago

   As I recall, patching was simply the most expedient approach. Otherwise, for the changes we needed to make, we would've had to copy a lot of source from the standard loader implementation in CPython for only a few simple changes. htt