Brian Ward

Allow installation without RStan

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@paul-buerkner and I discussed this at StanCon Oxford, as it would allow users to use BRMS in places like stan-playground: https://github.com/flatironinstitute/stan-playground/issues/202

Add ability to query font character width to led-matrix-c

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This would close #1775

```c // file: include/led-matrix-c.h int character_width_font(struct LedFont *font, uint32_t unicode_codepoint); // file: lib/led-matrix-c.cc int character_width_font(struct LedFont *font, uint32_t unicode_codepoint) { return to_font(font)->CharacterWidth(unicode_codepoint); } ``` I think someone can use something...

The default call (passing `unsafe=True`) leads to the warning `unsafe_ptrs property is deprecated and will be removed in Pillow 12` More information in the [Pillow documentation](https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/releasenotes/11.0.0.html#get-internal-pointers-to-objects), which suggests `Image.Image.getim()` for...

Improve location of some custom operators

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This (maybe?) closes #1915. It adds the same test as #1916, plus a: - Definite fix for `:=` - Just lex this as an operator. - Definite fix for reified...

Go-to-definition does not work on custom operators

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Go-to-definition doesn't work on (all) [custom operators](https://ocaml.org/docs/operators), which would be very useful for navigating DSLs. For example, ```ocaml let ( := ) v a = Printf.printf "%s = %d" v...

Parsing of `:=` and custom indexing operators seems to fail in `reconstruct_identifier`. I'm unsure if I'll be able to look into a fix myself, but some reproducing tests are here.

Right now config.json stores both `full_team_names` and `short_team_names_for_runs_hits` settings, but these should really be in the coordinates file as they are largely layout/size-specific decisions

Laplace: Add mean argument to helper distributions

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## Summary Closes #3202. Note that this is branched off of #3209, since doing the two changes independently would lead to a great many merge conflicts. ## Tests Existing tests...

Laplace: move theta0 to tolerances

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Discussed in https://github.com/stan-dev/math/issues/3202#issuecomment-2968011809, counterpart to https://github.com/stan-dev/stanc3/pull/1521 ## Summary Theta0 is now a tolerance parameter rather than required. When not provided, we assume a vector of 0s is sufficient. This required...