@ccshan Simply superb. Thank you. As far as I’m concerned, you can submit as is.

I’ve made some comments on the google doc

I agree that moving the scope paragraph up is a good idea.

Y’all won’t miss locating the snap “draft reviews” at the very end? Go ahead then.

Where? I assumed on our papers’ hotcrp page, but don’t see this.

I think @ccshan meant that he referred to the reviews as “draft reviews” at the end of the “we are in scope” section

I moved it up

Indeed.

I still think we should say more about how Anglican/Figaro are different (shallow embedding, not performing transformations, etc)

I have 0 knowledge of those matters. Sounds like a job for @ccshan.

I’m trying to write some specific comparisons between JAGS+MALLET+oldHakaru and Anglican+Figaro+STAN.

Meanwhile, @samth, you seem to have suggested that Rajan perform some benchmarks in Anglican/Figaro/STAN. I agree that it would be nice to have, say, benchmark results for Gibbs sampling GMM in Figaro, but Rajan and I doubt that can be done in a day. Did we misunderstand your suggestion?

Rajan and I will both be in the office this afternoon.

@carette, we Hoosiers are done editing and have moved the text over to https://icfp18.hotcrp.com/paper/30#response , so please read the draft there to see if you approve.

hotcrp had sent me an email with the response already. I most definitely approve. If a response ever has any chance of making a real difference, this one ought to!

NB The first couple of paragraphs have changed

Wait, Jacques are you promising to give up on author responses altogether if this one makes no difference?

I did read it carefully (and noted the changes).

Submitted. Thanks.

I don’t think I am making that promise, at least not quite yet. Though I will seriously consider it.

I would consider having either of the reviewers A or B upping their score by 1 level “making a difference”.

Or, for that matter, getting a new X review.

Well, getting that would be from your email to Eric Tanter, not the author response per se…

I would welcome such a review nevertheless. Well, as long as it was objective. [Even if it was negative].

@ccshan @samth I still have a ‘to do’ to put the draft on the arxiv. [The list is long…] which is almost at the top. Should I still do so?

yes, imo