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A probabilistic programming language
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"Simulation vs Inference" #62

Closed JacquesCarette closed 7 years ago

JacquesCarette commented 7 years ago

The documentation has a very short section on this (too short to be useful as is). It should be augmented.

JacquesCarette commented 7 years ago

@zaxtax Could you help us by pointing out some useful source material that we can leverage here?

zaxtax commented 7 years ago

I think the text Probabilistic models of Cognition (https://probmods.org/) should have something to help someone take a shot at this.

GenevaS commented 7 years ago

I've made an attempt (220e52a7822ff871b0945e3586d34f77ed6dbd91) to expand this section. Could someone please have a look at it and check for correctness? Thanks!

zaxtax commented 7 years ago

Great start! I've put some comments on the commit itself. I think the definition of simulation needs a bit of work, but overall it's great.

GenevaS commented 7 years ago

Alright, I've tried revising the definitions of simulation and inference (fd03cfd18be13f95d9c75a52eab7618d2ac958a0). Please let me know what you think.

GenevaS commented 7 years ago

Latest revision in 9e9a10dd02c61507af6f87ed907c2c70a877b10f.

zaxtax commented 7 years ago

Looks great!

GenevaS commented 7 years ago

Awesome! Should I deploy the changes? I would affect the "What is Probabilistic Programming?", "Quick Start", and "Installing Hakaru" pages. The installation page is affected because I added an instruction to alter the Windows PATH variable for cmaple (d915218228ab8ec620e9ca3d0d9f3bf64ba08ff9).

zaxtax commented 7 years ago

Go for it. Also feel free to deploy as you make changes to the docs.

GenevaS commented 7 years ago

Are there any other changes to be made to the "What is Probabilistic Programming?' page?

JacquesCarette commented 7 years ago

I'm happy with it.

GenevaS commented 7 years ago

@zaxtax Is there anything else that should be updated in the "What is Probabilistic Programming?" page? I'm using this issue to track the whole document.

zaxtax commented 7 years ago

Looks great!

GenevaS commented 7 years ago

Ok, I'm going to leave that page alone now. Closing this issue.