Python

Probabilistic Programming from Scratch

What do you want someone to leave your talk with? 

The audience will leave with a strong non-mathematical intuition for how Bayesian inference allows us to quantify the strength of conclusions drawn from real-world data. They’ll hopefully be excited to solve other toy problems with the tool we put together during the talk, and keen to check out PyMC3.

Is probabilistic programming a real thing? Can you give me an example of where it's being used today? 

Yes, it's a real thing! The most prominent examples of tech companies using these ideas in the real world are Facebook's Prophet time series forecasting system (which I'll discuss in the talk), and Uber's release of Pyro, an open source deep probabilistic programming system built on top of PyTorch. And Google are now getting involved with Tensorflow Probability