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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 is_free(self):
 """ returns True if any of the spectral model parameters is set to free, else False """

        return bool(np.array([int(value.get("free", False)) for key, value in self.spectral_pars.items()]).sum())