v0.40.4

Turing v0.40.4

Diff since v0.40.3

Fixes a bug where initial_state was not respected for NUTS if resume_from was not also specified.

Merged pull requests:

• Do not take an initial step before starting the chain in HMC (#2674) (@penelopeysm)
• no coveralls (#2677) (@penelopeysm)
• pass initial_state through for NUTS sampling (#2680) (@penelopeysm)

Closed issues:

• Allow user to disable unnecessary model evaluations after #2202 (#2215)
• Integrating Turing and MarginalLogDensities (#2398)
• Simplify the tilde-pipeline in DynamicPPL (#2422)
• Rethinking Threaded/Multichain Callbacks (#2568)
• Gibbs / dynamic model / PG + ESS reproducibility (#2626)
• Fixing initial_params when using NUTS does not fix the initial parameters (#2673)
• initial_state is not used when resume_from is not specified (#2679)