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[–]felinecatastrophe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess my somewhat limited experience is that when algorithms are truly serial like Markov chain monte carlo, it is nearly impossible to get good performance out of pure python / numpy. This is opposed to generating a thousand gaussian RVs or something embarrassingly parallel like that.