PyMC Discourse

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The future of PyMC3, or: Theano is dead, long live Theano News There have been many questions and uncertainty around the future of PyMC3 since Theano stopped getting developed by the original authors, and we started experiments with PyMC4. We are happy to announce that PyMC3 on The…	2	2145	February 1, 2021
Frequently Asked Questions Questions Is find_MAP still encouraged in practice? i notice a lot of code samples stopped using find_MAP (asked by @kpei) find_MAP is pretty much discouraged now in most situations. The MAP is not a representative point in high…	10	13772	January 21, 2019
Welcome to PyMC Discourse	0	2486	May 31, 2017
Reducing divergences : Implementation challenges	0	8	July 31, 2021
Using Callbacks in 3.11.2 to test for Divergences Questions	4	45	July 31, 2021
Pymc3 no longer importing Questions	18	692	July 30, 2021
How to verify that uncertainty (estimated from pymc3) is accurate? Questions	29	1782	July 30, 2021
Elegant way to code multi target/output regression with Inference data dims? Questions	2	28	July 30, 2021
How to make a TensorFlow ML model compatible with PyMC3? Questions	6	113	July 30, 2021
Mixture model with sample specific weights Questions bug	0	11	July 30, 2021
A Bayesian Approach to Media Mix Modeling by Michael Johns & Zhenyu Wang PyMCon2020	45	3001	July 30, 2021
Hierarchical model and pandas dataframe Questions	7	199	July 29, 2021
Posterior samples from multi-level model when choosing the index values Questions	3	77	July 29, 2021
Senior data scientist at talpasolutions Jobs	0	25	July 29, 2021
ARVIZ forest plot : is the point indicated by the round marker the mean of the distribution? Questions	2	62	July 29, 2021
Sampling draw time increases massively near "finish line" for 1M observed rows Questions	3	61	July 28, 2021
Simple logistic model: Bad initial energy log p's -Inf and Inf Questions	2	41	July 28, 2021
What is this about?: step_methods/hmc/quadpotential.py:224: Questions	5	58	July 28, 2021
Sampling from a space of trees using CategoricalGibbsMetropolis Sharing	0	21	July 28, 2021
Working with sparse attributed observations Questions	2	47	July 26, 2021
Automatic Conjugacy Detection Questions	5	129	July 26, 2021
Staff Data Scientist at Shopify building Bayesian models Jobs	1	193	July 25, 2021
Behaviour of Gibbs kernel seems off Questions	4	62	July 24, 2021
Convergence with noncentered hierarchical model Questions	6	142	July 24, 2021
Distributions .dist.logp() Questions	1	43	July 24, 2021
Sparse GP with linear covariate? Questions	1	38	July 23, 2021
Hierarchical Pooling but "same level" ie "sibling pooling" Questions	3	51	July 23, 2021
How best to build a model on 200k normally distributed observations without a simple vector relation (rather, a piecewise vector relation, i.e. subsets of data depend on a combination of parameters) Questions	1	41	July 23, 2021
Using Hierarchical Models in Instrumental Variable Analysis for Advertising Effectiveness by Ruben Mak PyMCon2020	5	468	July 23, 2021
Mass matrix contains zeros on the diagonal for messy data Questions	4	84	July 23, 2021

The future of PyMC3, or: Theano is dead, long live Theano

There have been many questions and uncertainty around the future of PyMC3 since Theano stopped getting developed by the original authors, and we started experiments with PyMC4. We are happy to announce that PyMC3 on The…

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2145

February 1, 2021

Frequently Asked Questions

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Is find_MAP still encouraged in practice? i notice a lot of code samples stopped using find_MAP (asked by @kpei) find_MAP is pretty much discouraged now in most situations. The MAP is not a representative point in high…