Julia Programming Language
What is the difference between rand and sample?
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Tamas_Papp
December 24, 2020, 9:15am
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Personally I think that using
StatsBase.sample
for MCMC is bad style (“punning”).
Allowing the object.method(args...) syntax as an alias for method(object, args ...)
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