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make mcmc more efficient! and hopefully better!

Rory Smith requested to merge make_mcmc_better_and_more_efficient into master

This modifies the mcmc sampler in parallel mode. Before, we were appending the initial live point to the list of potential samples. Once we've take a certain number of mcmc walks, we randomly sample from this list to choose a proposal point. The issue is that the list mainly contains samples that are guaranteed to be rejected, and the probability of accepting a good point is greatly reduced. This branch removes that issue, making sampling more efficient and probably more effective at sampling the corners of the posterior.

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