Port code to PyMC3

[twiecki]

PyMC3 is coming along quite nicely and is a major improvement upon pymc 2. I thus think a port of PPfH to PyMC3 would be very useful, especially since pymc3 is not well documented yet. All examples should be easy to port.

I don't think such a PR should be merged into master as pymc 2 is probably still around to stay and much more stable. But having a forked book would be quite nice. Certainly this point is up for debate.

[CamDavidsonPilon]

Yes, this is a big one, too. I agree with the two versions, and eventually phasing out pymc2 version when 3 has shown enough stability.

[timini]

Is there any progress on this yet? Even a partially ported version would be very useful to me at the minute as I search for all the pyMC3 examples I can get my hands on.. Documentation is low!

[amelio-vazquez-reina]

I second @timini 's thoughts . There is a branch already for pymc3 it seems though.

[CamDavidsonPilon]

Work on migrating to PyMC3 has begun, though there is no ETA on finishing

[hadim]

Any news here ?

[twiecki]

@hadim Interested in leading the charge here?

[hadim]

Well I already did it for chapter 1 but I just see that it is already done in https://github.com/CamDavidsonPilon/Probabilistic-Programming-and-Bayesian-Methods-for-Hackers/tree/pymc3.

I am sorry but for the others chapters I don't have neither the time and the knowledge to do it in a short term.

Maybe you could add a "call for contributor" on the README of the master branch about the porting to pymc3. You could also open a PR against pymc3 to track progress.

[hadim]

Please see #268.

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