Make BaseRunner an abstract base class

Closes #107

See merge request !111

Because it breaks the examples in the docs

exponentially decay message frequency in live_info

See merge request !108

Closes #118

The code is posed on https://github.com/python-adaptive/adaptive/issues/1

See https://stackoverflow.com/a/24946631/3447047

See http://help.zenodo.org/#versioning for more information.

and remove the code to find the complete author list from git  because
our CI job will ensure that all the contributors will be included
in that file.

Related:
* https://github.com/rtfd/readthedocs.org/issues/4778
* https://docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guides/build-using-too-many-resources.html

add tutorials

See merge request !129

add documentation

Closes #91

See merge request !120

Joseph Weston authored 6 years ago and Bas Nijholt committed 6 years ago

Also replace index.rst with a verbatim copy of the readme (for now).