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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def _initialize_distance_grid(self):
 """Initialize the distance grid by calls to _grid_dist."""

        p = [self._grid_distance(i) for i in range(self.num_neurons)]
        return np.array(p)