I think it's interesting that this submission gained quite a lot of upvotes without any discussion.
Where are those who have read the book, sharing their experience and comparing it to alternatives? The upvotes do not really tell me anything, I am here for the comments.
I've been meaning to take something like a small Scheme interpreter or whatever and run through this book with it. That said, after experimenting with PPL for a while, I'm more interested in variational inference, by which we can approximate the posterior distributions for models with larger hierarchical structure and higher observable dimensionality by turning the numerical integration problem into a gradient-descent problem.
Maybe it goes like this: subject is quite interesting but similarly too opaque to be able to comment on topic. So you give it a +1, in the hope of coming to the first page, the audience grows and so the probability of someone knowledgeable of the subject to add such a comment, so that a discussion may start.
Where are those who have read the book, sharing their experience and comparing it to alternatives? The upvotes do not really tell me anything, I am here for the comments.