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by wcbeard10 3572 days ago
I occasionally use probabilistic programming systems, and find this project fascinating, but I've been wondering for a while what the vision is.

Is it meant mainly as a research project/proof of concept (seems I've seen elsewhere that it's funded by the DARPA PPAML project), or is it intended to become a commonly used piece of software with a community like pymc3 and stan?
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probinso 3572 days ago
The PPAML project yielded a lot of cool work, I think that many people are still figuring out the most impact use case. I believe that the most mature new production language is Figaro, out of Charles River. They have some good example projects and a introductory text for their language.

https://www.cra.com/technical-expertise/probabilistic-modeli...

https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Probabilistic-Programming-A...

That being said, I'm very happy that Hakaru is getting attention.

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ccshan 3572 days ago
A good way to see the vision of Hakaru may be to search for "2016" on my Web page http://homes.soic.indiana.edu/ccshan/

Whether it is intended to become a commonly used piece of software depends on what you mean by "become" :)

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