Stan General Meeting Thursday September 26, 2019 11am EDT

Brief notes:

Matthijs: Some StanC3.

Ben: Uploaded RStanArm, got rejected.

Steve: Met with Dan S, working on Sparse matrix, adding to design doc.

Andrew: Golf case study up, permission to have BDA free online

Charles: Working with Yi to get Newton solver into Stan. Working on monster model.

Rok: Buch of openCL stuff. Working on learning compiler.

Ben B: MRP stuff, had idea that didn’t work out.

Jonah: RStanArm release, RStanTools 2.0 out.

Sean:

General Meeting:

  • Martin Modrak is discourse manager.
  • Utrecht StanCon–answer by Friday
  • Timestep adaptation
  • Stan Weekly Report discussion: Have a wiki? Newsletter? Push tech?
  • Stan Electorate: Has been kicked to SGB