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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 perturbParams(self, pertSize=1e-3):
 """ slightly perturbs the values of the parameters """

        params = self.getParams()
        self.setParams(params+pertSize*sp.randn(params.shape[0]))