Randomness in Other Nest Parameters

• You can use a built in random connection mechanism in PyNN.
• You can build parameter lists and create neurons with varying parameters in Nest and PyNN.
• The lab has you do this with the size of the neuron, but it works for all of the parameters.
• Synaptic delay is a widely used use of randomness.
• Note, once the Nest simulator is running, you can't change parameters. So, you can't simply randomly change the threshold to get a Boltzmann machine. How else might you do it?