# TODAY JuliaUserGroupMunich: Jay Pottharst - Probabilistic Computation and Gen Primer

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**Created:** [June 3, 2024, 8:38am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/today-juliausergroupmunich-jay-pottharst-probabilistic-computation-and-gen-primer/115101 "2024-06-03T08:38:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![schlichtanders](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/schlichtanders/32/32145_2.png) [@schlichtanders](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/schlichtanders)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2024, 8:38am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/today-juliausergroupmunich-jay-pottharst-probabilistic-computation-and-gen-primer/115101/1 "2024-06-03T08:38:11Z")

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📍online, organized via [meetup](https://www.meetup.com/julia-user-group-munich/events/301177154/) 🗓 TODAY, Monday 3. June 2024 🕡 CEST 18:30

## Probabilistic Programming with Gen.jl

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Finally again some probabilities! Julia has a few packages for probabilistic modeling. Gen.jl, Turing.jl, and RxInfer.jl are just the best known ones. I feel very glad to welcome Jay Pottharst as our speaker to give an introduction to Gen.jl

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🕓 18:30 - 19:30. Jay Pottharst: Probabilistic Computation and Gen Primer

Computing has long excelled at deductive reasoning in situations with complete certainty. More recently, it has been aimed at problems where uncertainty is intrinsic, and where probabilistic reasoning enables more robust solutions. ProbComp aims to provide expressive programming tools and design principles for working our intuitions in in this space. This talk will illustrate these ideas using the probabilistic programming language Gen.jl.

🕔 19:30 - 20:30. Time for further discussion  
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The event is going to be online. The link will be made available 10 min before the actual start. Please join 5 min ahead, the session is going to start on-time,

Looking forward to see you all,  
best,  
Stephan Sahm

sponsored by [Jolin.io](http://Jolin.io)  
[www.jolin.io](https://www.jolin.io/)

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**Author:** ![schlichtanders](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/schlichtanders/32/32145_2.png) [@schlichtanders](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/schlichtanders)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2024, 4:28pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/today-juliausergroupmunich-jay-pottharst-probabilistic-computation-and-gen-primer/115101/2 "2024-06-03T16:28:10Z")

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We are online, join us at

> **[Join conversation](https://teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/launcher.html?url=%2F_%23%2Fl%2Fmeetup-join%2F19%3Ameeting_ZjQ5ODYxODktMjBmYy00NDQwLTgzMjctMGY2NTc1MjdiMjdk%40thread.v2%2F0%3Fcontext%3D%257B%2522Tid%2522%3A%2522353fe535-14d8-46ab-82dd-442d976079e4%2522%2C%2522Oid%2522%3A%2522217553d9-8b46-4e88-8455-f18457998297%2522%257D%26anon%3Dtrue&type=meetup-join&deeplinkId=e329484b-0e14-4292-92b0-87be7527d4b5&directDl=true&msLaunch=true&enableMobilePage=true)**

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**Author:** ![thevolatilebit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@thevolatilebit](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/thevolatilebit)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2024, 4:38pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/today-juliausergroupmunich-jay-pottharst-probabilistic-computation-and-gen-primer/115101/3 "2024-06-03T16:38:34Z")

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Could you please record this, @schlichtanders? I am very interested but cannot join because I am quite busy now.

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**Author:** ![schlichtanders](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/schlichtanders/32/32145_2.png) [@schlichtanders](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/schlichtanders)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2024, 9:32am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/today-juliausergroupmunich-jay-pottharst-probabilistic-computation-and-gen-primer/115101/4 "2024-06-06T09:32:53Z")

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Yes, we got it recorded (not perfect quality, not sure why, but should work) - will be available soon.

For now, thanks to Jay Pottharst here the link to the slides

> **[Julia User Group ProbComp/Gen Primer June 2024](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nAtoyLHDWCT7pup1SSuxmNePb_a8Yb06Ax2rE6Hm6fU/edit?usp=share_link)**
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> ProbComp/Gen Primer Jay Pottharst, CHI FRO

and here some further tutorials about Gen.jl  
[https://www.gen.dev/tutorials/](https://www.gen.dev/tutorials/)