Advanced guide

This section has additional information on details not covered in the User’s guide.

• Functions
  • Default functions
  • User-provided functions
• Preferences
  • Accessing and setting preferences
  • Preference files
  • List of preferences
• Logging
  • Showing/hiding log messages
  • Preferences
• Namespaces
• Scheduling and custom progress reporting
  • Scheduling
  • Progress reporting
• Random numbers
  • Seeding and reproducibility
• Custom events
  • Scheduling
• State update
  • Explicit state update
  • Choice of state updaters
  • Implicit state updates
• How Brian works
  • Clock-driven versus event-driven
  • Code overview
  • Syntax layer
  • Computational engine
• Interfacing with external code