Scott Linderman

There's a bug in the ARS code that isn't apparent in the demo. Lines 86 and 91 of ars.m should be: ``` matlab if log(U)

Clarify some points of confusion in the Allen Visual Behavior notebooks

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@dougollerenshaw: Thanks for the Allen Institute notebooks! Some confusions arose during TA training, and I think some extra text explanations could help address them. 1. The [`load_Allen_Visual_Behavior_from_pre_processed_file.ipynb`](https://github.com/NeuromatchAcademy/course-content/blob/master/projects/neurons/load_Allen_Visual_Behavior_from_pre_processed_file.ipynb) notebook seems to...

Make GSL and OpenMP optional

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A lot of people are having trouble installing due to the dependencies on GSL (via `gslrandom` package) and OpenMP. I think we can make both of these optional, but the...

asserts currently pass with mu transposed

- [ ] Some labs say to submit the ipynb, and others don't. - [ ] Simplify the ipynb -> pdf conversion process

Lab 2: use cvx.sum_squares

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Make clear that students should use `cvx.sum_squares` in the `deconvolve` implementation. Otherwise CVX makes some weird decisions about which solver to use. Can we explicitly tell CVX to try ECOS...

I removed the old Lab 1 (Simple spike sorting) and jumped straight to Spike Sorting by Deconvolution (previously Lab 2). I forgot that it was one of the hardest labs...

Lab 1 should not use deprecated torch.norm and torch.svd functions.

The current versions of information form message passing for LGSSMs use a hybrid representation of dynamics parameters and information form emission parameters. It is often helpful to have routines that...

This PR is still a WIP toward addressing issue https://github.com/probml/dynamax/issues/99