Mitzi: PyCmdStan, work on Python interface. Working on Bayes workflow book. Keeping documentation going. Google has indexed user guide online. Search is working on git books, have PR for search mc-stan.org.
Jonah: Rstan pull requests, edits to long section of work flow document. Book progress.
Andrew: Nothing done in past two weeks.
Breck: StanCon 2019 continues firming up. No executed contracts yet.
Bob: Not much done. Working on intro to stats. Got soil carbon proposal written.
Lauren: Not much done. Working on some papers.
Aki: Not much done. Working on thinning. Working on Rhat paper, horse shoe.
Ben G: Working on BART and GPs with Jennifer on talk she is going. Gearing up for the Stan class at NYU.
Matthijs: Preparing talks for conference. Worked on offset multiplier in math. Worked on Stan compiler, worked more on discrete params project in Stan.
Sebastian: Working on parallel foreach in Stan math, can take any C++ functor that is parallel in execution will work. Alternative to MapRect, not a replacement.
General discussion:
Aki: Algo test bench development, ideas. Has students who could support infrastructure for testing against. Build a framework for others test against our models. Eval infrastructure with meta-data.
Mitzi: Look at performance tests CmdStan in repo, was stat comps benchmarks.
Tests will be run from R/Python.
ESS/sec metrics.
Version numbers on models.
Can replace exampleModels with this body of models.