hakaru - Programming language

hakaru is a programming language created in 2014.

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Download source code:

git clone https://github.com/hakaru-dev/hakaru

Hakaru is a simply-typed probabilistic programming language, designed for easy specification of probabilistic models and inference algorithms. This type of language is useful for the development of machine learning algorithms and stochastic modeling.

Tags: programming language
hakaru is developed on GitHub and has 309 stars
Early development of hakaru happened in Indiana University and McMaster University
hakaru is written in Haskell, Markdown, XML, YAML, Bourne shell, Tex, Vim script, Perl, Make, Python, CSS, Lisp, JavaScript
Read more about hakaru on the web: 1.

Example from the web:

def pulls(strength real):
    normal(strength, 1)

def winner(a real, b real):
    a_pull <~ pulls(a)
    b_pull <~ pulls(b)
    return (a_pull > b_pull)

alice <~ normal(0,1)
bob   <~ normal(0,1)
carol <~ normal(0,1)

match1 <~ winner(alice, bob)
match2 <~ winner(bob, carol)
match3 <~ winner(alice, carol)