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Welcome to issue 578 of Python Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

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The past, present, and future of notebooks
Data science notebooks have come a long way since first introduced back in 1988. Here's the 101 on how we got here, where the market is at, and predictions for the future.

Articles, Tutorials and Talks

The Origins of Python
Lambert Meertens, one of ABC’s developers, recounts Python’s origins and how ABC’s design philosophy shaped its successor.

Python and the Future of Programming

Lex Fridman's conversation with Guido van Rossum about Python and the future of programming.

Test factory functions in Django
When writing tests for Django projects, you typically need to create quite a lot of instances of database model objects. This page documents the patterns I recommend, and the ones I don’t.

Getting Started with Mastodon API in Python
With what's happening in Twitter, many people are considering moving to Mastodon. Like Twitter, Mastodon also has an API that can be used to create many useful application, bots, to analyze data, respond to notification or simply post some statuses. In this article we will explore all the things Mastodon API can do and how you can use it to build applications with Python.

Build Web APIs with Python

Django REST Framework is a powerful and flexible toolkit for building Web APIs. In this course for beginner you will learn how to use Python and the Django REST Framework (DRF) to build a web API.

The Essential Django Deployment Guide
Everything you need to know to get your Django app into production.

Building a TensorFlow Lite based computer vision emoji input device with OpenMV
This guide will explore using tinyML on an Arm Cortex-M based device to create a dedicated input device. This device will take real-time input from a camera and applies a machine learning (ML) image classification model to detect if the image from the camera contains a set of known hand gestures (✋, 👎, 👍, 👊). When the hand gesture is detected with high certainty, the device will then use the USB Human Interface Device (HID) protocol to “type” the emoji on the PC.

Database optimisation, analytics and burnout
There's always another millisecond to shave off the execution time, but how long are you going to spend doing it?

Scrape Twitter with 5 Lines of Code

This video shows how you can scrape twitter data using the python library snscrape to easily pull millions of historic tweets and save them off on your computer. Use this to create data for analysis or just archive off your tweets quick and easy.

Reviving an Analog Polysynth with an Arduino, Ghidra, and Python

Make a Mastodon Bot on AWS Free Tier

How to Automatically Transcribe a Notion MP3 File

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

socketify.py
Bringing WebSockets, Http/Https High Peformance servers for PyPy3 and Python3

lumi
Lumi is an nano framework to convert your python functions into a REST API without any extra headache.

TorchScale
TorchScale is a PyTorch library that allows researchers and developers to scale up Transformers efficiently and effectively. It has the implementation of fundamental research to improve modeling generality and capability as well as training stability and efficiency of scaling Transformers.

Aura-Notes
Aura Notes is a Windows based notepad app built with Tkinter and Python. It offers a modern look with menu look and it is completely open source with no ads or trackers. It also packs some advanced features, to know more, check README

photon
A DIY incident light meter.

tiny-training
On-Device Training Under 256KB Memory.

rsyscall
Process-independent interface to Linux system calls.

Upcoming Events and Webinars

Python Atlanta Meetup December 2022
There will be a talk, Terraform Workspaces and Modules. What are they and do I need them?!

Virtual: PyMNtos Python Presentation Night #109
There will be following talks

Pythonic Ask Me Anything (AMA): An Inverted Tech Talk.
Quantum Computing in Python (QisKit)

PyData Munich Meetup December 2022
There will be following talks

Reproducible ML workflows & dev environments with dstack
Why ML should be written as pipelines from the get-go

PyData Cambridge Meetup December 2022
There will be a talk, Introduction to Bayesian Optimisation.

PyData Berlin Meetup December 2022
There will be a talk, The hidden beauty of relational database systems.

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