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implement in pyro? #5

Open erindb opened 5 years ago

erindb commented 5 years ago

If we ever want to learn meaning functions for the explanans and explanandum someday, it would be nice to have a pyro version, right? And tobi's physics is written in python, so maybe we should just use the same physics engine? But learning meaning functions is a long way off, I'm not sure about the relative speeds or inference options, and we already have a version in javascript. Allen thinks it would be fun to implement this, which is awesome! Does that seem like a good plan?

erindb commented 5 years ago

Pros:

interfaces nicely with python
easy to simplify stickiness as linear combination of continuous functions
great if we end up with big tensors someday (we don't need them now, though)

Cons:

We can't differentiate the physics simulator.
There's not really a good enumerate

I can't remember the other things we talked about...

erindb commented 5 years ago

Actually, those cons aren't really cons.

if the physics simulator is written in tensor operations, we'd be fine. and it probably could be, if it's not already.
pyro has parallel enumeration

Currently talking with Eli about issues with this.