Waclaw Ludomir 'Stan' Rumun

No . Stan - M -

The problem with Physical Models and their appeal to composers is not merely perceptual or aesthetic.Furthermore is not a question of understanding the physics and parameters of the actual instrument. Itis a question of achieving musical textures, realistic articulations and extending the qualities of a familyof sounds given by a single characteristic timbre in a Physical Model of a...

Stan Glantz, tobacco warrior.

Stan Glantz’s voice carries the conviction and decibel level one would associate with a man who, with a handful of other courageous souls, has stood up to the mighty tobacco industry. A man who has played a key role in revealing to the world how over the past four decades tobacco executives have concealed the findings of their own scientists that tobacco kills and that nicotine is addictive. Ye...

Stan Modeling Language

Stan Modeling Language

Automatic Variational Inference in Stan

Variational inference is a scalable technique for approximate Bayesian inference. Deriving variational inference algorithms requires tedious model-specific calculations; this makes it di cult for non-experts to use. We propose an automatic variational inference algorithm, automatic di erentiation variational inference ( ); we implement it in Stan (code available), a probabilistic programming sy...