RES.9-003 | Summer 2015 | Graduate

Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course

Tutorial 5: Church Programming

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Josh Tenenbaum and colleagues propose that our intuitions about properties like the stability of a stack of blocks, may derive from “probabilistic programs” that can simulate, with some uncertainty, the physics that governs how objects behave in space and time. Such programs can be implemented and tested using probabilistic programming languages such as the Church language.

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Diagram with photos of three types of stacked objects—dishes in a sink, stable tower of blocks and collapsing unstable tower of blocks.
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Josh Tenenbaum and colleagues propose that our intuitions about properties like the stability of a stack of blocks, may derive from “probabilistic programs” that can simulate, with some uncertainty, the physics that governs how objects behave in space and time. Such programs can be implemented and tested using probabilistic programming languages such as the Church language.
Diagram with photos of three types of stacked objects—dishes in a sink, stable tower of blocks and collapsing unstable tower of blocks.

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