I think these explorations are very worthwhile. People tend to underestimate how much work it takes to implement all the distribution functions.

Looking forward to seeing where this goes.

I'm hoping to see how the lib authors:

1.) deal with model workflow (for example, how do I go from model building to prediction?); 2.) explain what data structures they hope to introduce (if all the authors did was make a strong matrix library for server-side javascript, that would be enough to make everyone's day); 3.) outsource the computational grunt work to C (or Fortran, if they're really adventurous)