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Gregory Ashton requested to merge parallel-initial-points into master Feb 27, 2020

Closes #14 (closed)

Use a pool to calculate the initial points in parallel
Reduce required likelihood calls by a factor of 2 by removing a redundant call
Add option to calculate initial points ignoring the likelihood (for the ptemcee sampler)