I recently read a HacknerNews thread on Stan and probabilistic programming more generally and one user commented that “The next cut of Stan will likely use TFP [Tensorflow Probability] as a backend” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25517374 I see that the thread is from February 2021 so I was…

Are there any plans to depend on tensorflow?

mitzimorris October 11, 2021, 1:31pm 5

the TFP backend was discussed at the most recent Stan Language dev meeting: Monthly language dev meeting - #22 by Bob_Carpenter

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