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Hello all,

I recently came across a wonderful app for iPhone or iPad, call Carnets or, better CarnetsSci with scipy and numpy preinstalled.

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On the GitHub page of this project, the author noted that you can install any Python package, unless it is a pure python one.

So

%pip install brian2

run this cell for almost 5 minutes (on my ancient iPad), then open new notebook and …

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  • Note that it runs on your device, no external connection is needed - amazing, many thanks to
    Nicolas Holzschuch
  • it works only in numpy mode, do not expect too much.

However, it’s quite fun to play with simple models while commuting.

Enjoy,
rth

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That’s very cool :smiley: For things like this (and e.g. pyodide) we should probably have a “proper” pure-Python version, that only comes with numpy support, does not depend on Cython, etc.

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@mstimberg
I wonder whether there is any way to set numpy as default code generator for local installation.

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Yes, you can set the codegen.target preference in a preference file, see Preferences — Brian 2 2.5.1 documentation .

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