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    1. Dan Piponi  🇳🇿‏ @sigfpe Jan 29
      Replying to @deliprao

      In some C-like language I'd write: float a = unknown; /* Hey, compiler! b is supposed to be as close to 9 as you can make it*/ float b = a*a; And it would compile float a = 3.0f (or on an off day, a = -3.0f).

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    2. Delip Rao‏ @deliprao Jan 29
      Replying to @sigfpe

      isn't that what most probabilistic programming languages aim for?

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    3. Delip Rao‏ @deliprao Jan 29
      Replying to @deliprao @sigfpe

      Unless I am missing a subtler point you're trying to make, you should check out all PyMC3 for a tensorflow based PPL and Pyro for a PyTorch based one.

      2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
    4. Dan Piponi  🇳🇿‏ @sigfpe Jan 29
      Replying to @deliprao

      I'll take a look. But I'm not really after any new technology - I know it already exists. Just better integration with my existing languages.

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    5. Delip Rao‏ @deliprao Jan 29
      Replying to @sigfpe

      oh, these are mostly newer implementations in modern computational graph frameworks of old ideas in PPL. Unfortunately, most PPLs work with Python. There is one that works with Java/Scala. None I know that works with C.

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    6. Dan Piponi  🇳🇿‏ @sigfpe Jan 29
      Replying to @deliprao

      BTW In Haskell it's easy to implement probability monad that'll take code like "do { a <- tossCoin, b <- tossCoin; return (a,b) }" and build the probability distribution on the 4 outcomes. Are there Python libraries that do similar?

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    7. Delip Rao‏ @deliprao Jan 29
      Replying to @sigfpe

      this coin toss example can be done with PyMC3 or Pyro or Stan I believe.

      1 reply 1 retweet 1 like
    8. Delip Rao‏ @deliprao Jan 29
      Replying to @deliprao @sigfpe

      also if you want to use a probability monad, it should be possible to stitch PyMonad with these libs to get the right amount of syntactic sugar. c.f.https://github.com/fnl/pymonad 

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    9. Delip Rao‏ @deliprao Jan 29
      Replying to @deliprao @sigfpe

      Also, @posco is pretty awesome to geek out about this.

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    10. P. Oscar Boykin‏ @posco Jan 29
      Replying to @deliprao @sigfpe

      actually @avibryant is implementing something in this space at @stripe right now (but for scala).

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      Avi Bryant‏ @avibryant Jan 29
      Replying to @posco @deliprao and

      Yeah, what I'm working on is closest to Stan but natively & idiomatically implemented in Scala. Not quite ready for external feedback yet but maybe in a month or two.

      2:29 PM - 29 Jan 2018
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