Statistical computing on a shoestring: Stan in the Azure cloud using Cloud-init

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Graphics source: Michael Betancourt at stan-dev/propaganda

Time to explore what the public cloud is all about.
Our goal is to write code (i.e. scripts) using open-source tools to automatically set up cloud infrastructure. In short, …