Ask HN: What companies are using probabilistic programming?
Just a quick correction – Frank Wood is not at Microsoft, but at UBC:<p><a href="http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~fwood/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~fwood/index.html</a><p>Microsoft Research does have multiple excellent researchers working on probabilistic programming. Infer.NET in particular is a highly advanced piece of technology for models in which you would use message passing algorithms to perform inference:<p><a href="http://infernet.azurewebsites.net" rel="nofollow">http://infernet.azurewebsites.net</a>