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GenExperimental.jl
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GenExperimental.jl

Featherweight embedded probabilistic programming language and compositional inference programming library

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What it is

Featherweight embedded probabilistic programming language and compositional inference programming library

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by week6 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-01-10 22:38:36 UTC to 2019-07-14 21:49:18 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

012342019-01-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJan 72019-01-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-28 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-28 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-02-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-02-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-02-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-02-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-02-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-02-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-02-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-02-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-03-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-03-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-03-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-03-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-03-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-03-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-03-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-03-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-04-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-04-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-04-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsApr 82019-04-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-04-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-04-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-04-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-04-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-05-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-05-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-05-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-05-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-05-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-05-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-05-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-05-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-06-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-06-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-06-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-06-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-06-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-06-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-06-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-06-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 2 submissions, 2 comments2019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-07-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-07-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-07-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJul 8

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Jan 72019-01-07 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-14 00:00:00 UTC101
Jan 142019-01-14 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-21 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 212019-01-21 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-28 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 282019-01-28 00:00:00 UTC2019-02-04 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 42019-02-04 00:00:00 UTC2019-02-11 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 112019-02-11 00:00:00 UTC2019-02-18 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 182019-02-18 00:00:00 UTC2019-02-25 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 252019-02-25 00:00:00 UTC2019-03-04 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 42019-03-04 00:00:00 UTC2019-03-11 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 112019-03-11 00:00:00 UTC2019-03-18 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 182019-03-18 00:00:00 UTC2019-03-25 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 252019-03-25 00:00:00 UTC2019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 12019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-04-08 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 82019-04-08 00:00:00 UTC2019-04-15 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 152019-04-15 00:00:00 UTC2019-04-22 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 222019-04-22 00:00:00 UTC2019-04-29 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 292019-04-29 00:00:00 UTC2019-05-06 00:00:00 UTC000
May 62019-05-06 00:00:00 UTC2019-05-13 00:00:00 UTC000
May 132019-05-13 00:00:00 UTC2019-05-20 00:00:00 UTC000
May 202019-05-20 00:00:00 UTC2019-05-27 00:00:00 UTC000
May 272019-05-27 00:00:00 UTC2019-06-03 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 32019-06-03 00:00:00 UTC2019-06-10 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 102019-06-10 00:00:00 UTC2019-06-17 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 172019-06-17 00:00:00 UTC2019-06-24 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 242019-06-24 00:00:00 UTC2019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC422
Jul 12019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-07-08 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 82019-07-08 00:00:00 UTC2019-07-15 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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byt143·Jan 10, 2019
Thanks for writing up your thoughts! I find Julia's core design to be excellent for general purpose programming, better than python in fact since it essentially solves the expression problem with it's type system and multiple dispatch. It's external program interop is also more pleasant than Python's :https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/running-external-pro... Sure, it doesn't have the same general library ecosystem, but even that is being remedied for core areas like web programming: http://genieframework.com/ (a full MVC framework), https://github.com/JuliaGizmos/WebIO.jl (write front end code without javascript) and I'm particularly excited for https://github.com/Keno/julia-wasm, which will allow Julia programs to be compiled for the browser. For any packages than are python only, it has excellent python interop using the pyca
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ll.jl package, which even allows users to write custom python classes in Julia. With regards to numerical programming, it's obviously already far ahead of swift, and IMO much better placed to beat it in the long run. For example the WIP zyogte package is able to hook into Julia's compiler to zero overhead diff arbitrary code. Using Cassette.jl, package authors can write custom compiler passes outside the main repo and in pure Julia: https://julialang.org/blog/2018/12/ml-language-compiler In addition, it's macro system, introspection, dynamic typing and value types through abstract typing approach allows for natural development of advanced probabilistic programming languages: https://github.com/TuringLang/Turing.jl, https://github.com/probcomp/Gen, https://github.com/zenna/Omega.jl/pulse
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