'Set up the attributes that ticker needs to see.
Arguments:
seq_len_max (int): Longest allowable sequence length
vec_size (int): Width of the bit-vector to be copied (this was 8 in paper)'

def __init__(self, seq_len_max, vec_size):

    self.seq_len_max = seq_len_max
    self.vec_size = vec_size
    self.nout = self.vec_size
    self.nin = (self.vec_size + 3)
    self.time_steps_func = (lambda l: ((2 * l) + 2))
    self.time_steps_max = self.time_steps_func(self.seq_len_max)
    self.max_columns = (self.time_steps_max * self.be.bsz)
