Getting the timing right (scheduling 2)

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Scheduling”: mechanism to determine the order of operations during a simulation

In this video we will look at its importance for:

  • propagating synaptic activity

New release: Brian 2.4

In these very particular times, we are nevertheless happy to announce a new release, Brian 2.4. This release fixes a large number of bugs and includes a number of small improvements. As announced with the previous release, Brian 2.4 is the first release that no longer supports Python 2. For a full list of changes, see the release notes. We recommend all users of Brian 2 to update.

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Getting the timing right (scheduling 1)

Quickstart

To run the code below:
  1. Click on the cell to select it.
  2. Press SHIFT+ENTER on your keyboard or press the play button () in the toolbar above
Feel free to create new cells using the plus button (), or pressing SHIFT+ENTER while this cell is selected.

Scheduling”: mechanism to determine the order of operations during a simulation

In this notebook we will look at its importance for:

  • recording values with a StateMonitor

You can also watch the   screencast video on Youtube.

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New Brian community forum

Ask questions, chat and learn with other Brian users, show off what you’ve done, suggest new features, … We will try out a brand new forum for support questions and general discussion, replacing our previous forums on Google Groups. The new forum builds on the Discourse platform which gives us exciting new features such as giving credit to users for answering questions.

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Brian online tutorial

We will experiment with running a Brian tutorial online. The first tutorial of this kind will take place on Friday, August 7th 2020 from 2pm-6pm BST (UTC+1, see here for other timezones). Free (but mandatory) registration here. We will run the tutorial as a Zoom meeting – registering with the link will give you the URL (please don’t share so we can avoid zoombombing). We will record the meeting and if everything goes reasonably well, we will upload the videos later.

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