number of breeding steps you take which is actually a very natural thing bei so the more grading steps you take the further away you get from theta that corresponds to a prior with the wider variance next question is there any guarantee or test that Phi is not multimodal as map will assume unimodality yeah so it's certainly yeah this this tribution certainly could be multimodal and this approximation is ignoring that in practice we have found that that mammal can work quite well on multi modal problems where you have like