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+title: "Lecture updates — June 14–21, 2026"
+author: QuantEcon
+excerpt: "Updates to the QuantEcon lectures."
+tag: [lectures]
+---
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+- 📚 **[Quantitative Economics with Python](https://python.quantecon.org/)** — Rewrote the non-conjugate priors lecture with improved NUTS and variational inference explanations, and enhanced the Kalman filter lecture's opening exposition.
+  - [Add explanatory notes to bayes_nonconj: NUTS and variational inference](https://github.com/QuantEcon/lecture-python.myst/pull/918)
+  - [Rewrite the Non-Conjugate Priors lecture](https://github.com/QuantEcon/lecture-python.myst/pull/913)
+  - [update exposition of first three sections](https://github.com/QuantEcon/lecture-python.myst/pull/903)
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+layout: post
+title: "Website update — June 14–21, 2026"
+author: QuantEcon
+excerpt: "Updates to the QuantEcon website."
+tag: [website]
+---
+
+- 🏠 **[quantecon.org](https://quantecon.org/)** — Added inline news tags for website and software content to improve categorization and visual organization on quantecon.org.
+  - [news tags for website/software, placed inline with title](https://github.com/QuantEcon/website/pull/220)