It's a Jax, Jax, Jax, Jax World

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The article discusses the prevalence of 'Jax' (a placeholder name for a statistical method or result) in research, highlighting issues with research methodology and the replication crisis, with the single comment expressing a nuanced view on the matter.

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sito42

3 months ago

> As much as people like to use NumPyro and sometimes even PyMC to generate JAX code, I think it may be easier in the end to just write JAX directly. That way, nothing gets between you and JAX and you don’t have to figure out how to filter JAX through middleware. When you do that, the models can be organized very much like in Stan.

^much truth. Nascent libraries like distreqx make it much easier to work at a lower level while maintaining some of the log density affordances that PPLs provide.

https://github.com/lockwo/distreqx

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