Modeling Agents with Probabilistic Programs

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Post by abeinstein » Sat, Jul 08, 2017, 6:37 PM UTC

Modeling Agents with Probabilistic Programs
agentmodels.org

Re: Modeling Agents with Probabilistic Programs

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Post by anarchy8 » Sat, Jul 08, 2017, 7:04 PM UTC

A great source, but was creating a subset of Javascript really necessary?

Re: Modeling Agents with Probabilistic Programs

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Post by harperlee » Sat, Jul 08, 2017, 7:24 PM UTC

anarchy8 wrote: post #2

A great source, but was creating a subset of Javascript really necessary?

WebPPL was not created specifically for this book. For example, this other one also uses it: Probabilistic Models of Cognition (https://probmods.org/)

Re: Modeling Agents with Probabilistic Programs

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Post by adamnemecek » Sat, Jul 08, 2017, 7:25 PM UTC

anarchy8 wrote: post #2

A great source, but was creating a subset of Javascript really necessary?

JS is the easiest language to build any sort of demo in.

Re: Modeling Agents with Probabilistic Programs

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Jul 09, 2017, 1:07 AM UTC

harperlee wrote: post #3

anarchy8 wrote: post #2

A great source, but was creating a subset of Javascript really necessary?

WebPPL was not created specifically for this book. For example, this other one also uses it: Probabilistic Models of Cognition ( https://probmods.org/ )

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Re: Modeling Agents with Probabilistic Programs

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Post by earthbeing » Sun, Jul 09, 2017, 11:56 AM UTC

Excuse me for going off-topic, but I have a question regarding the grammar used in the title:

Shouldn't it be "modeling the agents"? Because "Modeling Agents" could also mean "agents whose job is modeling".

I'm sorry, but the usage of "the" has been a question for me recently.