Probabilistic Programming and Conservation of Information

MIT scientists have improved on a new kind of computer language that enables "probabilistic programing," Larry Hardesty writes for MIT News. The new algorithms allow a programmer to write in fifty lines of code what used to take thousands. Hardesty emphasizes that this advance came at a high cost. And interestingly that is just what William Dembski shows in the chapter on "Conservation of Information" in his newest book, Being as Communion.

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