Programs and Probability

Posted by jonathansizz on Friday August 14, 2015 @01:52PM
from the americanscientist.org dept.

http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2015/5/programs-and-probability/99999?

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Re:Programs and Probability by ivan_ah on Saturday August 15, 2015 @01:59PM (#10066162)

This got me thinking about the future of ML. Right now ML solutions are like large blocks (centerpiece), which we feed with data and extract "value" from.

Perhaps rather than making ever more powerful ML "monoliths," maybe the future is with "ML modules" that can be glued together meaningfully (i.e. beyond data proc. pipelines). It would make sense that probabilistic programming languages will be useful for gluing such modules together.

Link to church in js book from the article: http://dippl.org/chapters/02-webppl.html#and-inference

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Re:Programs and Probability by nyc_cyn on Friday August 14, 2015 @05:54PM (#10063202)

Practical applications of Probability Programming Languages?

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Re:Programs and Probability by eli_gottlieb on Friday August 14, 2015 @10:50PM (#10064127)

Probabilistic Models of Cognition was mentioned in the article.

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Re:Programs and Probability by johanvts on Saturday August 15, 2015 @09:50AM (#10065357)

Easy implementation of randomized algorithms.

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