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Computational Neuroscience Community,</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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would like to point you to a potentially useful<span> </span></span><span data-markjs="true" class="markrs55kolx1" style="font-size: 15px; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Python</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;"><span> </span>Package
that might be of interest for your research, especially in the realms of "Biologically-inspired Neural Networks", "Shallow Learning" and "Recurrent Neural Networks" in general.</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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Machine Learning with Echo State Networks, a scikit-learn compatible package.</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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Repository:<span> </span></span><a href="https://github.com/fabridamicelli/echoes" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" style="font-size: 15px; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://github.com/fabridamicelli/echoes</a><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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few interesting features:</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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scikit-learn compatible, i.e. scikit-learn tools such as GridSearchCV should work out-of-the-box</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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It is light-weight and fast (`numba` accelerated), i.e. many experiments can be simply run on a laptop</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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Flexible and customizable, e.g. use arbitrary connectivity, add custom activations, visualize neurons activity, etc.</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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Installation and getting started is easy: `pip install echoes`</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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Example notebooks:<span> </span></span><a href="https://github.com/fabridamicelli/echoes/tree/master/examples/notebooks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1" style="font-size: 15px; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://github.com/fabridamicelli/echoes/tree/master/examples/notebooks</a><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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Documentation:<span> </span></span><a href="https://fabridamicelli.github.io/echoes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="2" style="font-size: 15px; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://fabridamicelli.github.io/echoes/</a><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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of today, a few people already trust it and the package registers >18K total downloads, ~500/month (</span><a href="http://pypi.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="3" style="font-size: 15px; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">pypi.org</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">)
and has been used already in a few research projects:</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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Hadaeghi et. al. (2021) Spatio-temporal feature learning with reservoir computing for T-cell segmentation in live-cell Ca2+ fluorescence microscopy:<span> </span></span><a href="http://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-87607-y#Sec4" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="4" style="font-size: 15px; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-87607-y#Sec4</a><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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Damicelli<span> </span></span><a href="http://et.al/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="5" style="font-size: 15px; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">et.al</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">.
(2021) Brain Connectivity meets Reservoir Computing:<span> </span></span><a href="http://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.22.427750v1.abstract" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="6" style="font-size: 15px; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.22.427750v1.abstract</a><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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Fakhar et. al. (2022) Causal Influences Decouple From Their Underlying Network Structure In Echo State Networks:<span> </span></span><a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/2205.11947" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="7" style="font-size: 15px; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">arxiv.org/abs/2205.11947</a><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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it out and any feedback/suggestions/bug reports are more than welcome (simply open an issue:<span> </span></span><a href="https://github.com/fabridamicelli/echoes/issues" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="8" style="font-size: 15px; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://github.com/fabridamicelli/echoes/issues</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">).</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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the best,</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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