August 8, 2019 Stan meeting in NYC at 11am

Hangouts Link: https://meet.google.com/gzm-wmum-pfm

Instructions: Ask to attend in the hangouts interface and someone should let you in in the first 10 minutes of the meeting. Email breck@mc-stan.org if you have problems or want to attend the physical meeting in New York City.

Meeting Agenda:

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Meeting notes:

Andrew: Proposal out to Sloan, work on books.

Yuling: Progress on stacking for multi-modal posteriors. Reported by Andrew.

Bob: Worked on Sloan grant, design docs in for ragged arrays and closures.

Mitzi: PyLadies meetings, working through Bayes Workflow Book. Translating to Python.

Lauren: Working on social work stuff for Columbia.

Ben G: Still working on getting 2.20 out.

Aki: Sub-sampleing loo soon to be added loo package. Model/public db is in public repo. Bunch of visitors to Helsinki.

Charles: Working on tutorial for StanCon.

Sean: Bug fixes in compiler, extensions to compiler as well.

Steve: Draft of sparse matrix spec written. Looking at templating solution.

Breck: StanCon coming along. Funding raising. Electorate discussion.