I'm sympathetic to all this. >> I'm not sure what you mean by ``higher order functions" Ben> Functions that take functions as arguments -- I mean the term in Ben> the sense of functional programming languages like Haskell ...
>> and ``probabilistic programming language", can you spell out >> please? Ben> I mean a language (or code library within another language) sort Ben> of like Prolog, but with probabilistic truth values assigned to Ben> the logical relationships and predicates (and cognition instead Ben> of stupid backtracking on the back end) >> I think it looks like really well written python code. Is there >> some difference with the above? Ben> Yes.... Ben> To run with the programming langage metaphor, I think it looks a Ben> bit more like really well-written Haskell code, with extremely Ben> heavy use of a code library that works like "probabilistic Ben> prolog" and finds -- probabilistic truth values of relationships Ben> -- arguments that probabilistically satisfy probabilistic Ben> predicates. >> My AGIRI Proceedings paper discusses this in more detail. Ben> I look forward to reading it ;-) Ben> ben Ben> ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email Ben> To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: Ben> http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
