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Probabilistic Programming

Nov 24, 2015 · 7:00 PM
Codecentric Office Munich

Interested in Probabilistic Programming?

Come over & join our next meetup! We're going to talk about Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Methods.

If you'd like to get prepared and know more, you can read the "Bayesian Methods for Hackers" book: https://github.com/CamDavidsonPilon/Probabilistic-Programming-and-Bayesian-Methods-for-Hackers

We'll host two talks.

One is by Alex Petrov, he's going to talk about Bayesian Inference and how to make machines biased:

Humans have many biases. Let's call them priors. They also have their expertises. Let's call them hypothesis spaces. We often make the conclusions we make swiftly, and without much effort and call it intuition. How do we make machines reason intuitively and what it may end with.

Examples will be given in Probabilistic Programming framework called Anglican, successor of the Goodman & Tenenbaum Church language.

One will be given by Johannes Drever. He will give some examples from the book "Probabilistic Models of Cognition" in the church programming language. The paper "Simulation as an engine of physical scene understanding" serves as an in-depth example on how Monte Carlo simulations may be used as a model of human cognition.

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Michael B.

Heres the recording of yesterday evening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uoCdjbZT6k

1 · November 25
iL_Mattone

Will it be recorded ?

0 · November 24
- Alex P
  
  Yes we are recoding. Live stream available at https://www.youtube.co...
  
  1 · November 24
- Michael B.
  
  Actually that URL won't work "because Youtube". We'll post the correct URL tomorrow, it takes a little time to process until the YT encoder farm has processed all the data.
  
  2 · November 24
Alex P

My slides can be found here: https://speakerdeck.com/ifesdjeen/breaking-bayesian-inference-causes-bias-in-machines

1 · November 24
Alex P

Hi everyone! Meetup is already tomorrow! Really looking forward to see you there. It's going to be fun! If you'd like to give a lightning talk or lead a panel or Q/A discussion, please ping me.
If you end up not being able to join, please update your RSVP so that we could prepare the best experience for the right amount of people!

See you all tomorrow!

0 · November 23
- Stefan S.
  
  I could give a lightning talk about depletion force. It'a (nearly) natural force caused only by randomness and statistics. So you probably have observed it accidentally in random driven simulations (monte carlo, simulated annealing, etc).
  
  1 · November 24
- Alex P
  
  Awesome! Looking forward to it!
  
  0 · November 24