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Re:Pyro: The Universal, Probablistic Programming Language by jmugan on Friday July 28, 2023 @03:49PM (#36912323)
I wish Pyro would do a better job of hiding the implementation details. I shouldn't need to understand variational inference and such just to get the probability of a god dang hot dog. I've tried to use Pyro a few times, but every time I spend more effort trying to understand poutines and such instead of modeling my problem.
Re:Pyro: The Universal, Probablistic Programming Language by nerdponx on Friday July 28, 2023 @04:39PM (#36912988)
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Re:Pyro: The Universal, Probablistic Programming Language by jmugan on Friday July 28, 2023 @04:02PM (#36912521)
And I wish they would merge it with the beautiful explanations at https://probmods.org/. We need a practical probabilistic programming language in Python. We have PyMC, but to use that you have to pull out your old notes on Theano.
Re:Pyro: The Universal, Probablistic Programming Language by nerdponx on Friday July 28, 2023 @04:40PM (#36913001)
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Re:Pyro: The Universal, Probablistic Programming Language by jmugan on Friday July 28, 2023 @05:21PM (#36913506)
Those didn't pop up last time I searched in this area. I knew about Stan but not PyStan. I'll check those out.
Re:Pyro: The Universal, Probablistic Programming Language by theptip on Friday July 28, 2023 @05:59PM (#36913931)
Interested in folks’ thoughts on how BeanMachine compares too.
Re:Pyro: The Universal, Probablistic Programming Language by jonathf on Saturday July 29, 2023 @04:40PM (#36924320)
That's not true anymore. Pymc4 switched backend last year. https://www.pymc.io/blog/v4_announcement.html#v4_announcemen...
Re:Pyro: The Universal, Probablistic Programming Language by adammarples on Saturday July 29, 2023 @07:20PM (#36925865)
To a fork of theano