Best practice for setting draws, tune, chains & cores

1000 draws is usually sufficient with a well tuned HMC/NUTS for most application, otherwise, the rules of thumb is if you want 1 digit more precision of your estimate you need to 10x your sample size (1000 draw → .001 precision, and technically 1000 effective samples)

As for number of tuning samples, I am quite impatient so 1000 is usually the maximum I do

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