Individual Reports:
Matthijs: Progress on OCaml parser for Stan3.
Ben G: RStanArm is ready to go, waiting on RStan next release. Worked on how to do includes of Stan programs in Stan programs.
Charles: Found class of models where the quadratic analyzer does poorly. Interfering with a model that Shosh wanted to fit. Going to post to discourse. Thinks this because of sharp discontinuities. Working on McGill slides.
Lauren: StanCon, hassles getting people to update their talks/slides.
Mitzi: Gotten through some pull requests. More on reference manual. Fully htmlized reference manual. Putting together a wiki page for how to add more documentation. Fixed bug in 2.18.
Breck: SGB admin stuff, proposal went out.
Bob: Wrote and distributed a Stan roadmap. Met with tensor flow probability (TFP). TFP ahead of us on matrix.
Jonah: Working on Andrew’s book. Getting ready for a release of Bayes Plot.
Paul: Keeping Ben and Mitzi busy. Worked on paper with Aki. Working on xval. Using ProdPred with BRMS.
Aki: Done paper with post-doc. Loo, gave Stan talk in Venice, in Marseille now.
Sean: GPU pull request for lower triangular ??. Avoiding copy, sharing dev ops knowledge. Trying to hire a free lancer to do mono-repo.
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Discussion of deep copy bug. Turns out at most to be inefficient, not broken.
Discussion of how are we going to test the new parser.
Charles: Stochastic Gradients and HMC.
Bob: Stan Roadmap discussion.