1. Requirements --> python 2.7, autograd==1.2, scipy, matplotlib
   
   a. virtualenv --system-site-packages -p python2.7 venv
   b. source venv/bin/activate
   c. pip install autograd==1.2
   d. pip install scipy
   e. pip install matplotlib

2. To Run Sigmoid slope search experiment, run the following command -- it should take a few minutes to complete on a MacBook CPU. 
python outerloop_petridish.py

3. Step 2 can be run a few times to obtain average results. Each run dumps a result file --> results/results_xxx  

4. To visualize the results, you can plot them by running the following command 
python plot_results_for_paper.py results/results_ 1

