The Anglican Probabilistic Programming System

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by jonnybgood • 11 years ago

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chris_wot2• 11 years ago

What's with the name?

xopher• 11 years ago

It is probably a joke as Anglicanism (Church of England, Episcopalian for Americans) is Via_media (i.e. the middle way between Catholicism and Protestant theologies), this is the middle path between Church and Venture.

chris_wot2• 11 years ago

That's so obscure, I love it! Kind of fits with the programming paradigm (ducks).

cl42• 11 years ago

One of the precursors to this type of programming was Church (http://projects.csail.mit.edu/church/wiki/Church), a Scheme-based probabilistic programming language.

I guess they're separating from said Church? :)

Expeditus419• 11 years ago

My Mom would love the name. Clever.

j-pb• 11 years ago

This is super cool, have you thought about turning it into core.probabilistic? It's definitely a great paradigm clojure is missing.

I'd love to see a talk on it :D

The Anglican Probabilistic Programming System

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