HBC: Hierarchical Bayes Compiler

#1

Post by morpheism » Tue, May 05, 2009, 3:20 PM UTC

HBC: Hierarchical Bayes Compiler
cs.utah.edu

Re: HBC: Hierarchical Bayes Compiler

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Post by jimbokun » Tue, May 05, 2009, 6:58 PM UTC

Looks very cool. Anyone actually use this?

I'm thinking that looking at the compiled code for some of the example models might actually be a good way to learn more about Hierarchical Bayesian models.

Re: HBC: Hierarchical Bayes Compiler

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Post by andreyf » Tue, May 05, 2009, 8:18 PM UTC

This seems like the path languages will come to evolve in. Especially with the advent of "cloud computing", I imagine a compiler which distributes processing among a remote resources can use a combination of a large company's internal code base and open source code to train ML algorithms can either provide either great code completion or build entire "ambiguous languages".

Re: HBC: Hierarchical Bayes Compiler

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Post by tb » Wed, May 06, 2009, 1:58 AM UTC

andreyf wrote: post #3

This seems like the path languages will come to evolve in. Especially with the advent of "cloud computing", I imagine a compiler which distributes processing among a remote resources can use a combination of a large company's internal code base and open source code to train ML algorithms can either provide either great code completion or build entire "ambiguous languages".

I don't know if you misunderstood or just didn't read the linked page, but this is a compiler for hierarchical Bayesian models, not a compiler that uses Bayesian inference in the process of compiling, neat as that would be.

Re: HBC: Hierarchical Bayes Compiler

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Post by andreyf » Wed, May 06, 2009, 4:09 AM UTC

tb wrote: post #4

andreyf wrote: post #3

This seems like the path languages will come to evolve in. Especially with the advent of "cloud computing", I imagine a compiler which distributes processing among a remote resources can use a combination of a large company's internal code base and open source code to train ML algorithms can either provide either great code completion or build entire "ambiguous languages".

I don't know if you misunderstood or just didn't read the linked page, but this is a compiler for hierarchical Bayesian models, not a compiler that uses Bayesian inference in the process of compiling, neat as that would be.

Guilty - I opened it in a separate tab to read later (and just got home).