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Welcome to the emergent wiki!

Getting Started:

• Install -- how to install and first run the software.
• Email List: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/emergent-users

End-user Help:

• NetView -- tips for using the network viewer
• Tutorials -- helpful guides
• Projects -- collections of simulations providing useful examples and science of neural modeling

Coding Simulations:

• Design -- overall design notes.
• Naming -- naming conventions.
• Params -- the emer system for managing parameters.
• Env -- an interface to encapsulate environments.
• Weights -- saving and loading weight values: formats, etc
• Prjns -- all about projections -- types, how to access, etc
• VirtEnv -- notes on virtual environment plans
• GUI -- misc gui tips for using GoGi
• Embed -- how to embed weights, etc in an executable
• Tutorial: Building Projects -- Overview of Building Projects
• Python -- how to write simulations in Python.

Advanced:

• Threads -- How to allocate layers to separate processing threads (goroutines) for parallel processing
• MPI -- Message Passing Interface distributed memory computation
• Parallel Runs -- How to run multiple runs in parallel (e.g., on a compute cluster)
• Compartments -- how to treat different Prjns as separate neural compartments
• GPU -- graphical processing unit computation

Misc:

• Rationale -- Narrative rationale for developing new version of emergent in Go.
• History -- Historical info about previous versions of emergent.
• Standards -- Notes on various neural network standards that we should consider interoperating with..