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btwillardon PyMC: Theano Is Dead, Long Live Theano

I'm the author of the JAX backend in Theano, and, no, this didn't have anything to do with NumPyro--especially since I neither use nor know very much about NumPyro.

It was just a quick demonstration of how easily one can use Theano as a generalized graph "front-end", while also preserving its more unique and programmable symbolic optimization capabilities. JAX was one of a few "backends" I considered, and, due to the JAX Python library, it also looked like the most straightforward one to implement first.

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btwillardon A week with Hy

As I recall, patching was simply the most expedient approach. Otherwise, for the changes we needed to make, we would've had to copy a lot of source from the standard loader implementation in CPython for only a few simple changes.

https://github.com/hylang/hy/pull/1672