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Re:Probabilistic programming does in 50 lines of code what u... by aet on Monday April 13, 2015 @01:20PM (#9368957)
I agree -- I think lines of code is the wrong measure. A better measure would be how large is the set of problems that occur in practice that normally would take thousands of lines which can now solve be solved with 50 lines of code using a probabilistic programming language.
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Re:Probabilistic programming does in 50 lines of code what u... by nanofortnight on Monday April 13, 2015 @01:29PM (#9369022)
Generally it's anything that you can express using a probabilistic graphical model. It's mainly useful in engineering (real engineering), control systems, robotics, inference, machine learning and artifical intelligence circles.
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