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Is Guix full-source bootstrap a lie?
No, it is not a lie! Guix blog post told me: « today, you get a package graph of more than 22,000 nodes rooted in a 357-byte program ». Mind-blowing! To my knowledge, the story is unique.
For the interested reader, the adventure starts with Mes, Maxwell's Equations of Software – an attempt at dissolving bootstrap binaries, and then it is a journey, such excursion! This guile-bootstrap is not created from nothing, it is the result of a build process (derivation) where the inputs and the builder are clearly and explicitly defined. The package python-pymc is library for probabilistic programming (formerly PyMC3) which helps for Bayesian statistical modeling focusing on advanced Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) or variational inference algorithms.
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