Created: May 16, 2020
Modified: May 16, 2020
Modified: May 16, 2020
delayed sampling
This page is from my personal notes, and has not been specifically reviewed for public consumption. It might be incomplete, wrong, outdated, or stupid. Caveat lector.- Like quantum mechanics! We build up a distribution over variables defined so far. When we need to use a value, we sample from this distribution. This is effectively 'taking a measurement' and 'collapses the wavefunction' so that the remaining distribution is conditioned on the sampled value that we just 'measured'.