Main tweaks

[spficklin]

Issue #226

Description

This is a fix for an intermittent problem that sometimes occurs so it's not easy to reproduce. But I'm going to merge it into the dev branch because Cole needs the fix for the class Alex is teaching which uses the dev branch.. If this doesn't work then we can adjust.

[github-actions[bot]]

YAML linting is failing

To keep the code consistent with lots of contributors, we run automated code consistency checks. To fix this CI test, please run:

• Install yaml-lint
  • Install npm then install yaml-lint (npm install -g yaml-lint)
• Fix the markdown errors
  • Run the test locally: yamllint $(find . -type f -name "*.yml" -o -name "*.yaml")
  • Fix any reported errors in your YAML files

Once you push these changes the test should pass, and you can hide this comment :+1:

We highly recommend setting up yaml-lint in your code editor so that this formatting is done automatically on save. Ask about it on Slack for help!

Thanks again for your contribution!

[spficklin]

Whoops... I accidentally pushed some other fixes that I didn't mean to. I should have looked closer before pushing. But these fixes have been tested so probably no big deal. They are fixes to keep exteremely large runs (1000's of samples) from having issues when restarting.