nimble, words of introduction

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+/.quarto/

01_nimble.qmd

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-## Quarto
+# Short presentation of `nimble`
 
-Quarto enables you to weave together content and executable code into a finished document. To learn more about Quarto see <https://quarto.org>.
+First, a very good reference: https://r-nimble.org/html_manual/cha-welcome-nimble.html
 
-## Running Code
+The `nimble` package is:
 
-When you click the **Render** button a document will be generated that includes both content and the output of embedded code. You can embed code like this:
+- A system for writing statistical models flexibly (based on bugs).
+- A library of inference algorithms (MCMC, Laplace approximation).
+- A compiler that generates and compiles C++ for your models and algorithms without knowing it is C++.
 
-```{r}
-1 + 1
-```
+There is a `nimble` language with the basics for building statistical models (e.g. the key probability distributions, some key transformation functions).
 
-You can add options to executable code like this 
+But, this remains limited and to have full flexibility, ones need to build its own function -> can be very challenging 
 
-```{r}
-#| echo: false
-2 * 2
-```
+# A simple example with functions being available in `nimble`
 
-The `echo: false` option disables the printing of code (only output is displayed).