Srini K 2024-01-18 01:58:53 hey y’all, just a heads up that we have a #in-boston channel, and a small meetup in a few weeks as well! So if you’re in town visiting or live in Boston, join us in that channel 🙂
Tom Lieber 2024-01-20 16:32:29 I’ve been really into probabilistic programming languages (PPLs) lately. I had a few “aha” moments and I’m decidedly in the “hit everything with this hammer to figure out where the nails are” phase.
Anyway, is anybody here in a similar headspace? Or already experienced with PPLs?
Is anybody curious to enter this headspace with me? I reviewed the (online, free, programmable) book that brought me here: micro.alltom.com/2024/01/11/the-cognition-in.html
📝 Tom Lieber -
The “Cognition” in Probabilistic Models of Cognition :books: is the hardest part to get across when I recommend this book. Because the book isn’t “Bayes works, yawn.” It’s so much more interesting if you, like me, exist primarily in ML circles that focus on curve-fitting:
What could be going on in our heads when we can’t tell that the two grid squares in that optical illusion are the same color?
