# Journal Club

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## [About the Journal Club category](https://discourse.pymc.io/t/about-the-journal-club-category/221)

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**Author:** [@bwengals](https://discourse.pymc.io/u/bwengals)\
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Every month the PyMC developers meet virtually to talk about a recent or particularly interesting article. Threads tagged under this category or meant for discussion about the upcoming topic/paper. We thought we would …

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## [Feb 5th Bayesian Data Analysis Meetup Virtual Event](https://discourse.pymc.io/t/feb-5th-bayesian-data-analysis-meetup-virtual-event/17534)

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**Author:** [@Brian\_Parbhu](https://discourse.pymc.io/u/Brian_Parbhu)\
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**Last updated:** [February 23, 2026, 2:10am UTC](https://discourse.pymc.io/t/feb-5th-bayesian-data-analysis-meetup-virtual-event/17534 "2026-02-23T02:10:29Z")

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Hi All, On Feb 5 we have a virtual event for the Bayesian Data Analysis Meetup. We’re excited to host Ian Costley (Wegmans Food Markets) for an upcoming talk on Bayesian Models in Production. Ian will share hands-on ex…

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## [Next Journal Club meeting: November 12!](https://discourse.pymc.io/t/next-journal-club-meeting-november-12/8144)

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**Author:** [@martinacantaro](https://discourse.pymc.io/u/martinacantaro)\
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**Last updated:** [October 10, 2021, 3:34pm UTC](https://discourse.pymc.io/t/next-journal-club-meeting-november-12/8144 "2021-10-10T15:34:04Z")

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The article to be discussed will be “Bayesian hierarchical stacking: Some models are (somewhere) useful”. Link: \[2101.08954\] Bayesian hierarchical stacking: Some models are (somewhere) useful Comment if you’re intereste…

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## [Is the journal club still alive or ready to be revived?](https://discourse.pymc.io/t/is-the-journal-club-still-alive-or-ready-to-be-revived/6960)

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**Author:** [@harcel](https://discourse.pymc.io/u/harcel)\
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**Last updated:** [March 16, 2021, 1:30pm UTC](https://discourse.pymc.io/t/is-the-journal-club-still-alive-or-ready-to-be-revived/6960 "2021-03-16T13:30:43Z")

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I am pretty new on the discourse and came across this tag. I, for one, would be interested in a journal club like described in the first post with this tag. Is it still alive? If not: why did it die out and would it be v…

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## [12/2017: Tensorflow distributions](https://discourse.pymc.io/t/12-2017-tensorflow-distributions/769)

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**Author:** [@junpenglao](https://discourse.pymc.io/u/junpenglao)\
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**Last updated:** [October 30, 2018, 7:08am UTC](https://discourse.pymc.io/t/12-2017-tensorflow-distributions/769 "2018-10-30T07:08:41Z")

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Collection of notes and related information on the discussed paper: TensorFlow Distributions The bijector class of tfb is quite a powerful concept. For example, two recent blog post \[1\] \[2\] from Eric Jang demonstrated…

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## [01/2018: Notes on "Generalizing Hamiltonian Monte Carlo with Neural Networks"](https://discourse.pymc.io/t/01-2018-notes-on-generalizing-hamiltonian-monte-carlo-with-neural-networks/768)

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**Author:** [@colcarroll](https://discourse.pymc.io/u/colcarroll)\
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**Last updated:** [January 21, 2018, 2:18pm UTC](https://discourse.pymc.io/t/01-2018-notes-on-generalizing-hamiltonian-monte-carlo-with-neural-networks/768 "2018-01-21T14:18:51Z")

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Hi all! I wrote up some notes and computational experiments while reading Generalizing Hamiltonian Monte Carlo with Neural Networks, by Levy, Hoffman, and Sohl-Dickstein. Hoffman might sound familiar as one of the autho…

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## [10/2017: RealNVP](https://discourse.pymc.io/t/10-2017-realnvp/411)

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**Author:** [@junpenglao](https://discourse.pymc.io/u/junpenglao)\
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**Last updated:** [November 1, 2017, 8:54pm UTC](https://discourse.pymc.io/t/10-2017-realnvp/411 "2017-11-01T20:54:45Z")

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This Monday, @ferrine presented Density estimation using Real NVP. It’s a set of invertible transformation: you can think of it as a more expressive version of normalizing flow. You can find an implementation in Tensorf…

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## [9/2017: what's the topic?](https://discourse.pymc.io/t/9-2017-whats-the-topic/250)

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**Author:** [@bwengals](https://discourse.pymc.io/u/bwengals)\
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**Last updated:** [August 17, 2017, 1:04pm UTC](https://discourse.pymc.io/t/9-2017-whats-the-topic/250 "2017-08-17T13:04:19Z")

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Anybody read any neat papers lately?

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## [8/2017: HMC and discrete parameters](https://discourse.pymc.io/t/8-2017-hmc-and-discrete-parameters/222)

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**Author:** [@bwengals](https://discourse.pymc.io/u/bwengals)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [August 4, 2017, 8:21pm UTC](https://discourse.pymc.io/t/8-2017-hmc-and-discrete-parameters/222 "2017-08-04T20:21:05Z")

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The paper is… :drum: Discontinuous Hamiltonian Monte Carlo for sampling discrete parameters by Akihiko Nishimura, David Dunson and Jianfeng Lu. We’ll shoot for a call on Aug 11. Has anyone read the paper yet? First i…