Daryl DeFord

I'll add a version of this to my notes for one of the easy ones.

This actually leads to another subtler issue that if you want to do the weighting (and the corresponding waiting :) ) properly, you need to replace the validators with a...

Yeah, it all comes down to which steps get binned (which is to say, this is a software decision - a place where the theory and practice don't come together...

I have versions of this now that I built for Lorenzo and the VA 2.0 thing. We should decide if it is worth adding them here now that we aren't...

Basic outlines of the current versions: https://www.overleaf.com/read/zpmyzqmpvmnx plus some additional code for context: https://github.com/drdeford/Tree_Partitions_Preliminary

This also fits into #296 as the construction of new seeds sits somewhere in between chain runs, data processing, and implementation details. - Do we include seed building in GerryChain?...

Now a week 6 project for vrdi 2019.

I've tested this out a bit and somewhere around 20 seems to work pretty well. **edit:** in terms of minimizing false positives

I missed this at the time but I will have a couple of (longish) docs addressing exactly these issues ready for eyeballs next week. Right now I have it separated...

Ok, here are some drafts. The relevant material from the MCMC_Intro is Section 7. [GerryChain_Guide.pdf](https://github.com/mggg/GerryChain/files/3238249/GerryChain_Guide.pdf) [MCMC_Intro.pdf](https://github.com/mggg/GerryChain/files/3238250/MCMC_Intro.4.pdf) Definitely a work in progress but hopefully this gets us off to a good...