Stan-LRGS hack hour

[abmantz]

Hi watchers,

In a couple weeks, a few local people and I will be doing a short hack, ostensibly to implement the models in LRGS in Stan, a Hamiltonian Monte Carlo package, to see how the performance compares with Gibbs sampling. Also as an excuse to learn how to write Stan models (for some of us).

If anybody out there would like to participate remotely, let me know and I'll see if I can set up some videoconferencing. If you don't care about Stan but there's some other improvement you've been dying to work on, this is also a fine opportunity.

The hack will be Thursday September 13 at 10:30 Pacific time, nominally for an hour or so. At some point before then, I'll push a stan branch with some initial attempts to implement the most basic functionality.