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+# .readthedocs.yaml
+# Read the Docs configuration file
+# See https://docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/config-file/v2.html for details
+
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+version: 2
+
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+build:
+  os: ubuntu-22.04
+  tools:
+    python: "3.12"
+    # You can also specify other tool versions:
+    # nodejs: "19"
+    # rust: "1.64"
+    # golang: "1.19"
+
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+sphinx:
+   configuration: docs/conf.py
+
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 xesn Documentation
 ==================
 
+**xesn** is a python package for implementing Echo State Networks (ESNs), a
+particular form of Reservoir Computing originally discovered by
+[Jaeger_2001]_.
+The implementation makes use of 
+`numpy <https://numpy.org/>`_ and
+`scipy <https://scipy.org/>`_ for an efficient implementation on CPUs,
+and `cupy <https://cupy.dev/>`_ for GPUs.
+
+
 .. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 1
 
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 .. [Arcomano_et_al_2020] Arcomano, T., Szunyogh, I., Pathak, J., Wikner, A., Hunt, B. R., & Ott, E. (2020). A Machine Learning-Based Global Atmospheric Forecast Model. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(9), e2020GL087776. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL087776
 
+.. [Jaeger_2001] Jaeger, H. (2001). The "echo state” approach to analysing and training recurrent neural networks – with an Erratum note. Bonn, Germany: German National Research Center for Information Technology GMD Technical Report, 148(34), 13.
+
+
 .. [Pathak_et_al_2018] Pathak, J., Hunt, B., Girvan, M., Lu, Z., & Ott, E. (2018). Model-Free Prediction of Large Spatiotemporally Chaotic Systems from Data: A Reservoir Computing Approach. Physical Review Letters, 120(2), 024102. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.024102
 
 .. [Smith_et_al_2023] Smith, T. A., Penny, S. G., Platt, J. A., & Chen, T.-C. (2023, September 21). Temporal Subsampling Diminishes Small Spatial Scales in Recurrent Neural Network Emulators of Geophysical Turbulence. arXiv. Retrieved from http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.00100