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Verbose and quiet output flags

Open gully opened this issue 9 years ago • 3 comments

The problem: The code prints lots of info to standard out. Some users might want more or less info, or different info.

Suggested solution: Provide a flag for verbose or quite output. The default can be the existing setup, or whatever is deemed optimal.

gully avatar Jan 21 '16 09:01 gully

I experimented with custom terminal output, namely aligning the sample positions and printing accept/reject in a single line. Looks like this:

screen shot 2016-03-11 at 1 15 19 pm

gully avatar Mar 11 '16 06:03 gully

It is true that the current sampling routines are a bit verbose for a default option.

I like your idea to provide a verbose flag with the output you've demonstrated. I could see how this might be helpful to quickly identify if the tuning of the MH jumps is on the right track or not.

iancze avatar Mar 15 '16 05:03 iancze

I liked that blog post a lot! So yeah, a good default would be no output :mute:, and then users could toggle a flag if they really had to see what was going on. Of course the log.log file could have some of this information too. In either case, a sane formatting scheme will help sort out the significant digits from the insignificant ones.

gully avatar Mar 30 '16 10:03 gully