SMC notebook broken

[fonnesbeck]

Sequential MC fails during sampling in the example notebook:

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TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-7-c5f19f1ce5a2> in <module>()
      7     homepath=test_folder,
      8     model=ATMIP_test,
----> 9     rm_flag=True)

/Users/fonnescj/Repos/pymc3/pymc3/step_methods/smc.py in ATMIP_sample(n_steps, step, start, homepath, chain, stage, n_jobs, tune, progressbar, model, random_seed, rm_flag)
    521         draws = 1
    522     else:
--> 523         step = stage_handler.load_atmip_params(stage, model=model)
    524         draws = step.n_steps
    525 

/Users/fonnescj/Repos/pymc3/pymc3/backends/smc_text.py in load_atmip_params(self, stage_number, model)
    195             prev = self.highest_sampled_stage()
    196         else:
--> 197             prev = stage_number - 1
    198         pm._log.info('Loading parameters from completed stage {}'.format(prev))
    199 

TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for -: 'str' and 'int'

Should we remove this notebook for the 3.1 release, given that it is experimental?

[twiecki]

CC @hvasbath

[fonnesbeck]

Done. Will add removed notebooks back to master after 3.1 is tagged.

[hvasbath]

This will be fixed once the other PR is merged, fixed it there. ... #2339

[hvasbath]

PR is merged, can be closed!