# Stan: the Gathering April 1st

@martinmodrak :
Notes from last time to check, if it is OK to publish
https://hackmd.io/-3W345C1SHe2TQC-gJGsjw

https://github.com/pgree/fastNoNo

CmdStanPy - random variables
https://cmdstanpy.readthedocs.io/en/v0.9.75/api.html#cmdstanpy.CmdStanMCMC.stan_variable

@benb

- Reviewing threaded cmdstan/stan
- Performance fix for multi_normal_cholesky_lpdf
- cdf functions now use | syntax
- now language uses `normal_cdf(x | mu, sigma)` instead of `normal_cdf(x, mu, sigma)`

@breck
Letter of Intent with PyMC and ArviZ to Chan Zuckerberg Iinst for SGB funds.
Working with Jose and Liverpool folks on CoDatMo.

@storopoli

- Working with @breck and @bob and @simon along with Liverpool Folks for the CoDatMo brazilian model using twitter sympton mention data.
- We have an epidemiologist on board and she is quite stoked to learn bayesian stuff