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docs/tutorials/neurocog/hodgkin_huxley_cell.md

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`m` ($\mathbf{m}_t$) for the probability of sodium channel subunit activation, and
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neurons and muscle cells. It is a continuous-time dynamical system.
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Formally, the core dynamics of the H-H cell can be written out as follows:
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docs/tutorials/neurocog/simple_leaky_integrator.md

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With our JSON configuration in place, go ahead and create a Python script,
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i.e., `run_slif.py`, to write your code for this part of the tutorial.
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Now let's go ahead and set up the controller for this lesson's simulation,
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Now let's go ahead and set up the controller/context for this lesson's simulation,
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where we will a dynamical system with only a single component,
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specifically the simplified LIF (sLIF), like so:
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This node has quite a few compartments and constants but only a handful are important
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for understanding how this model governs spiking/firing rates during
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for understanding how this model governs spiking/firing rates within its simulation window.
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Specifically, in this lesson, we will focus on
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its electrical current `j` (formally labeled here as $\mathbf{j}_t$),
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its voltage `v` (formally labeled: $\mathbf{v}_t$), its spike emission
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(or action potential) `s` (formally $\mathbf{s}_t$), and its refractory
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variable/marker (formally $\mathbf{r}_t$). The subscript $t$ indicates
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that this compartment variable takes on a certain value at a certain time step
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$t$ and we will refer to the ngc-learn controller's integration time constant,
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$t$ and we will refer to the ngc-learn context's integration time constant,
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the amount of time we move forward by, as $\Delta t$. The constants or
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hyper-parameters we will be most interested in are the cell's membrane resistance
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`R_m` (formally $R$ with its capacitance $C$ implied), its membrane time
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In effect, given the above, every time the `sLIF`'s `.advanceState()` function is
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called within a simulation controller (`Controller()`), the above Euler integration of
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called within a simulation controller context (`Context()`), the above Euler integration of
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the membrane potential differential equation is happening each time step. Knowing this,
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the last item required to understand ngc-learn's `sLIF` node's computation is
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related to its spike $\mathbf{s}_t$. The spike reading is computed simply by

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