I will also look at the legacy code and see what it does — I might be wrong but I have a feeling it works. It __might__ however be sampling!
to) there is a nascent dask version. Although I have no idea if it's a good template to start from! 

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to) there is a nascent dask version. Although I have no idea if it's a good template to start from! 
