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janwillem

HN member

Assistant Prof @ Northeastern University. Co-creator of the Anglican Probabilistic Programming System.

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/jwvdm/

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Comment #17224300
Just to clear up further confusion: Frank was indeed at Oxford previously – he moved to UBC this Spring. The tutorial actually took place at NIPS 2015 in Montreal.

Mon, Jun 04, 2018, 3:15 AM UTC
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Comment #17222620
Just a quick correction – Frank Wood is not at Microsoft, but at UBC: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~fwood/index.html Microsoft Research does have multiple excellent researchers working on …

Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 10:15 PM UTC
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Comment #13056103
Anglican dev here. We always welcome feedback. Could you explain what you find strange about the workflows? We taught a summer school on Anglican last August. The materials are ava…

Mon, Nov 28, 2016, 3:45 PM UTC
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Comment #11509906
Anglican dev here. Systems like Anglican perform Bayesian inference in user-defined models, which are expressed as programs in a general-purpose language – in our case a subset of …

Sat, Apr 16, 2016, 9:11 AM UTC