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NLP Forward With Transformer Models and Attention
What’s the big breakthrough for Natural Language Processing (NLP) that has dramatically advanced machine learning into deep learning? What makes these transformer models unique, and what defines “attention?” This week on the show, Jodie Burchell, developer advocate for data science at JetBrains, continues our talk about how machine learning (ML) models understand and generate text.
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“Unstoppable” Python Remains More Popular Than C and Java
“Python seems to be unstoppable,” argues the commentary on August’s edition of the TIOBE index, which attempts to calculate programming-language popularity based on search results for courses, vendors, and “skilled engineers”.
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Adding Auditing to Pip
In light of recent supply-chain attacks on PyPi, people are talking about how to help secure their environments. Discussions on adding a security audit feature to pip have begun, but opinions differ widely. This article summarizes the conversation so far.
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Finding Performance Problems: Profiling or Logging?
Statistical profiling takes a sample of your code at run time and in intervals inspects the performance. Learn how to use this to help determine your performance bottlenecks even in production code.
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Sorting a Python Dictionary: Values, Keys, and More
In this tutorial, you’ll get the lowdown on sorting Python dictionaries. By the end, you’ll be able to sort by key, value, or even nested attributes. But you won’t stop there—you’ll go on to measure the performance of variations when sorting and compare different key-value data structures.
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PEP 682 – Format Specifier for Signed Zero
Somewhat surprising to math people, both floats and the Decimal package support negative zero. As this can cause strange results, Python Enhancement Proposal 682 suggests a change to the string format specification to automatically normalize negative zero to positive zero.
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The Many Flavors of Hashing
As Python has the dict type built-in and hashing is a common part of objects, it is easy to forget that there is more than one way to hash an object. This high-level article describes many ways hashes are used in programming and the associated algorithms.
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Text Extraction Using PyMuPDF
PyMuPDF is an open source Python programming library which provides convenient access to the C library MuPDF. This blog post explores text extraction using PyMUPDF and what differentiates it from other approaches.
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How to Add a Text Editor to Django With Summernote
“No one wants to read unformatted text.” This article teaches you how to use the Summernote WYSIWYG editor plug-in to add formatting and images to your posts.
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10 Malicious Python Packages Found
Ten more malicious packages have been found in a series of supply-chain attacks on PyPi. Increasingly, hosting sites are discussing how to handle the situation, with GitHub creating an RFC on package signing.
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Exploring Special Function Parameters
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The Magic of Matplotlib Stylesheets
With a single line of code, you can integrate a stylesheet with your Matplotlib visualization. This tutorial shows you how to make your very own custom reusable stylesheet.
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Building a Slack-Bot With Python and Supabase
Learn how to use Python and Supabase to build a Slack-bot that consolidates messages from several channels.
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Finding & Fixing Python Bugs, Uncommon Usage, NBA Highlights, and More

Tuesday, August 9, 2022

Finding and Fixing Python Code Bugs #537 – AUGUST 9, 2022 VIEW IN BROWSER The PyCoder's Weekly Logo Finding and Fixing Python Code Bugs Learn how to identify and fix logic errors, or bugs, in your

NLP, Python at Meta, Testing PyPy, and More

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Flashcards in Django, Persistent Auth in CLIs, Replace These Libraries, and More

Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Build a Flashcards App With Django #535 – JULY 26, 2022 VIEW IN BROWSER The PyCoder's Weekly Logo Build a Flashcards App With Django Create your own flashcards app to help you to learn a new

Measuring Python Code Quality, Subtests, Parallel Processing, and More

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TOML in Python 3.11, Django and Angular, Constrain With assert, and More

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Python 3.11 Preview: TOML and tomllib #533 – JULY 12, 2022 VIEW IN BROWSER The PyCoder's Weekly Logo Python 3.11 Preview: TOML and tomllib Python 3.11 will be released in the fall of 2022. In this

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