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Topics

• Goals for version 0.6-6 and future releases
• Core feature ideas
• Statistical algorithm ideas
• Features for nimbleFunction programming and compilation (DSL)
• Linear algebra, multivariate, spatial modeling enhancements
• Internal implementation ideas
• Places for more informative error messages
• Examples/case studies
• Cleanup work
• Minor improvements
• Bayesian nonparametrics

Developer manuals and tutorials

• We've just started putting bits of content into a NIMBLE Developer Guide.
• Random tips and tricks
• Various feature ideas/requests

Experimental features

• Automatic differentiation in NIMBLE
• Using Tensorflow as a back end

Design documents

Our design documents are spread across Google Docs (G) and Wikis (W).

• G Saving, loading, and related redesigns
• G Speeding up tests
• G Tensorflow as a backend
  • W Task list
• W Support optim() and optimize()

Old and out-of-date documents

• W Dynamic Indexing BUGS processing design document
  • W Planning dynamic indexing implementation