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As per Kafka documentation replication factor 0 does not make sense: ``` Kafka is meant to be used with replication by default—in fact we implement un-replicated topics as replicated topics...

General comment: If you are hell bent on using variational methods, consider looking at pyro since that framework originally was conceived for exactly that. SVGD exists, but the implementation claims...

> shellcheck suggests these changes. I imagine you want this as clean as possible since you could really destroy data. Anyways, I just setup a cron job to run this...

Can't wait for this to land, until than I'll have to use an old ubuntu version ;-(