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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 run_checks(self, b, compute, times=[], **kwargs):
 """ run any sanity checks to make sure the parameters and options are legal for this backend. If they are not, raise an error here to avoid errors within the workers. Any physics-checks that are backend-independent should be in Bundle.run_checks, and don't need to be repeated here. This should be subclassed by all backends, otherwise will throw a NotImplementedError """

        raise NotImplementedError("run_checks is not implemented by the {} backend".format(self.__class__.__name__))