I’m new to pymc3, just started looking to use it over the past week. I have been looking at a couple quick examples, but ran into runtimeerror when running sample. I only receive the error when I set cores >1, so this looks like a threading issue. Not sure if I have something installed wrong or i…

If this is just a normal python script (and not a notebook), you need to protect your final code using the standard if __name__ == '__main__'. We are using the multiprocessing module from the std lib, and this will reimport (“execute”) your whole script again, but with __name__ set to a different va…

Sample runtimeerror when cores>1

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AlexAndorra September 11, 2020, 7:49am 9

Can you try the new mp_ctx kwarg: pm.sample(mp_ctx="forkserver") or pm.sample(mp_ctx="spawn")?

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Sample runtimeerror when cores>1

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