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A general-purpose neural simulator focusing on topographic maps.
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Lab notebook #457

Closed sf-issues closed 10 years ago

sf-issues commented 12 years ago

Converted from SourceForge issue 3418719, submitted by ceball Submit Date: 2011-10-04 22:50 GMT

For batch runs, we have a good system of keeping track of results. However, for interactive GUI use, we don't have any way to keep track of what simulations were run, what results were collected, and maybe even why the simulations were being run.

Is there something we could use to keep track of exploration? I use a notebook and also save emacs sessions and plots together. Emacs sessions contain all the commands I entered at the command line (to start topographica, and what I typed in to topographica while working.)

There should be some tools available to help a lot with this. What does the new Qt-based shell/CLI window from IPython offer? Can it save into a lab notebook format? Or maybe sage -- to save the notebook from an exploration? What about Sumatra? Is there some kind of workspace tool that will link everything together (plots generated, dataset being used, commands entered, etc)?

sf-issues commented 12 years ago

Submitted by ceball Date: 2012-04-23 09:52 GMT

From "Investigate ipython notebook - ID: 3438739" (closed as duplicate):

Is it something that people could use already with Topographica, e.g. to launch Topographica from it, or would we need some specific support for it?

http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/dev/interactive/htmlnotebook.html this page has screenshot (near the bottom): http://wesmckinney.com/blog/?p=202

(the spyder roadmap includes integrating ipython notebook at some point)

jlstevens commented 10 years ago

We now support IPython Notebook very well. You can even launch the notebook server from Topographica with ./topographica -n. Closing this issue.