Weights copy code

It looks like weight initialization code where the weights are being initialized to a distribution returned by truncnorm. Below is your above code with comments:

Get the standard dev value. Allows for per-layer customization and defaults to 0.1 if none specified
stddev = m.stddev if hasattr(m, ‘stddev’) else 0.1
Builds a handle for the distribution we want to sample from
X = stats.truncnorm(-2, 2, scale=stddev)
Produces a random array containing as many elements as my weight matrix
values = torch.Tensor(X.rvs(m.weight.data.numel()))
Reshapes the random matrix to have the same shape as the weight matrix
values = values.view(m.weight.data.size())
Copies it into the weight variable data
m.weight.data.copy_(values)