Publications by Bob Carpenter
Stan Roundup, 6 October 2017
I missed last week and almost forgot to add this week’s. Jonah Gabry returned from teaching a one-week course for a special EU research institute in Spain. Mitzi Morris has been knocking out bug fixes for the parser and some pull requests to refactor the underlying type inference to clear the way for tuples, sparse matrices, and higher-order ...
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Stan Biweekly Roundup, 6 October 2017
I missed last week and almost forgot to add this week’s. Jonah Gabry returned from teaching a one-week course for a special EU research institute in Spain. Mitzi Morris has been knocking out bug fixes for the parser and some pull requests to refactor the underlying type inference to clear the way for tuples, sparse matrices, and higher-order f...
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Halifax, NS, Stan talk and course Thu 19 Oct
Halfiax, here we come. I (Bob, not Andrew) am going to be giving a talk on Stan and then Mitzi and I will be teaching a course on Stan after that. The public is invited, though space is limited for the course. Here are details if you happen to be in the Maritime provinces. TALK: Stan: A Probabilistic Programming Language for Bayesian Inferenc...
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Halifax, NS, Stan talk and course Thu 19 Oct
Halfiax, here we come. I (Bob, not Andrew) am going to be giving a talk on Stan and then Mitzi and I will be teaching a course on Stan after that. The public is invited, though space is limited for the course. Here are details if you happen to be in the Maritime provinces. TALK: Stan: A Probabilistic Programming Language for Bayesian Inferenc...
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Halifax, NS, Stan talk and course Thu 19 Oct
Halfiax, here we come. I (Bob, not Andrew) am going to be giving a talk on Stan and then Mitzi and I will be teaching a course on Stan after that. The public is invited, though space is limited for the course. Here are details if you happen to be in the Maritime provinces. TALK: Stan: A Probabilistic Programming Language for Bayesian Inferenc...
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Stan Roundup, 27 October 2017
I missed two weeks and haven’t had time to create a dedicated blog for Stan yet, so we’re still here. This is only the update for this week. From now on, I’m going to try to concentrate on things that are done, not just in progress so you can get a better feel for the pace of things getting done. Not one, but two new devs! This is my fav...
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Stan Roundup, 27 October 2017
I missed two weeks and haven’t had time to create a dedicated blog for Stan yet, so we’re still here. This is only the update for this week. From now on, I’m going to try to concentrate on things that are done, not just in progress so you can get a better feel for the pace of things getting done. Not one, but two new devs! This is my fav...
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Stan Roundup, 27 October 2017
I missed two weeks and haven’t had time to create a dedicated blog for Stan yet, so we’re still here. This is only the update for this week. From now on, I’m going to try to concentrate on things that are done, not just in progress so you can get a better feel for the pace of things getting done. Not one, but two new devs! This is my fav...
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Stan Roundup, 10 November 2017
We’re in the heart of the academic season and there’s a lot going on. James Ramsey reported a critical performance regression bug in Stan 2.17 (this affects the latest CmdStan and PyStan, not the latest RStan). Sean Talts and Daniel Lee diagnosed the underlying problem as being with the change from char* to std::string arguments—you can�...
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Stan Roundup, 10 November 2017
We’re in the heart of the academic season and there’s a lot going on. James Ramsey reported a critical performance regression bug in Stan 2.17 (this affects the latest CmdStan and PyStan, not the latest RStan). Sean Talts and Daniel Lee diagnosed the underlying problem as being with the change from char* to std::string arguments—you can�...
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