Since the amount of computation required for each MCMC iteration differs greatly among the samplers, this restriction may affect the performance of each sampler differently.
One hardly knows where to begin, except possibly with the samplers themselves.
We were drawn to the samplers and medleys, which let us try a large number of appetizers.
The samplers range across several cultures and a few centuries and reveal universal practices and local permutations.
Hunched over the samplers, their heads are simply blurs of movement, but they still seem to be communicating with each other every couple of minutes.
The samplers, with sentimental mottoes, are familiar fare at museums and galleries, but the girls' floor coverings have scarcely been studied.
In its third iteration now, Psychic TV is a sextet with guitars and electronics; a guest musician, Hanna Haddix, took over Ms. Breyer's role as manipulator of the samplers.
When sampling first made waves in the mid-80s, most journalistic discussions focused on the legal aspect, typically framing the samplers in punk-like terms as renegade, naughty, larcenous, irreverent.
So we'll maybe spend days just playing various things, wind instruments, strings, guitars, bass, synths, for hours into the samplers and then feeding those sounds through stacks of destructive hardware and resampling them to make unrecognizable new sounds.
But he said the dead laptops have another historical throwback: He said they echo the samplers embroidered by colonial-era schoolgirls, who labored over the letters of the alphabet and an image, often flowers.
Finally, suggestions are made for further improvement of the samplers.
