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Welcome to issue 579 of Python Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

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PyCon US 2023 Registration Launch!
The news you’ve been waiting for is finally here - registration for PyCon US 2023 is officially open!

Articles, Tutorials and Talks

Building A Virtual Machine inside ChatGPT
Unless you have been living under a rock, you have heard of this new ChatGPT assistant made by OpenAI. You might be aware of its capabilities for solving IQ tests, tackling leetcode problems or for helping people write LateX. It is an amazing resource for people to retrieve all kinds of information and solve tedious tasks, like copy-writing! But did you know that you can run a whole virtual machine inside of ChatGPT?

The Ultimate Guide to Writing Functions

Over the years, I’ve seen a lot of code by different people, and my conclusion is that writing great, well-designed functions is difficult. So, I made this guide, which includes the 7 most important things you should do when writing functions.

Natural Language Processing Demystified
A free, comprehensive course to turn you into an NLP expert.

I Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language
In which ChatGPT and the author invent a fictional language spoken by slime-people.

The cloudy layers of modern-day programming
Is what we do development anymore?

Learn Python GUI Development for Desktop

Learn how to use Qt for Python using PySide6 to build cross platform desktop apps for Windows, Mac and Linux.

Ready-to-go sample data pipelines with Dataflow
This post is for all data practitioners, who are interested in learning about bootstrapping, standardization and automation of batch data pipelines at Netflix.

Roboflow 100: A New Object Detection Benchmark
Advancing the state-of-the-art in object recognition with a new way to benchmark computer vision models across domains and task targets.

DjangoCon US and Europe 2022 Talks

The complete playlists of talks from each conference are now available on YouTube.

Introducing PyTorch 2.0
In this post, you will find all the information you need to better understand what PyTorch 2.0 is, where it’s going and more importantly how to get started today (e.g., tutorial, requirements, models, common FAQs).

Debug ONNX GPU Performance
This article will review a case of exporting a PyTorch model to ONNX and what was done to improve GPU performance.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

GuardDog
GuardDog is a CLI tool that allows users to identify malicious PyPI packages. It runs a set of heuristics on the package source code (through Semgrep rules) and on the package metadata.

aoc-gpt
Solve Advent of Code puzzles with GPT-3.

KlongPy
KlongPy is a vectorized port of Klong, making it a blazingly fast array language that supports direct Python integration.

FAQtory
FAQtory is a tool to auto-generate a FAQ.md (Frequently Asked Questions) document for your project.

Gymnasium
A standard API for reinforcement learning and a diverse set of reference environments.

CausalPy
A Python package for causal inference in quasi-experimental settings.

ExtremeBERT
ExtremeBERT is a toolkit that accelerates the pretraining and finetuning of BERT on customized datasets.

OpenRepo
Open Source repository management for deb, rpm, and generic packages.

DreamShard
This is the implementation for the paper DreamShard: Generalizable Embedding Table Placement for Recommender Systems. We propose DreamShard, a reinforcement learning approach for embedding table placement.

github-trends
Level up your GitHub profile readme with customizable cards including LOC statistics!

New Releases

Jupyter Server 2.0
Jupyter Server provides the core web server that powers JupyterLab and Jupyter Notebook. This release brings many new features and lays groundwork for a more multi-user, (real-time) collaborative Jupyter experience.

Python 3.11.1, 3.10.9, 3.9.16, 3.8.16, 3.7.16, and 3.12.0 alpha 3 are now available
Six simultaneous releases has got to be some record. There’s one more record we broke this time, you’ll see below.

Django bugfix release: 4.1.4
Django 4.1.4 fixes several bugs in 4.1.3.

PyPy v7.3.10
We have some nice speedups and bugfixes in this release.

Upcoming Events and Webinars

Virtual: XtremePython 2022
XtremePython 2022 is an online conference that includes short sessions, with speakers from all over the world. Use our special coupon code PYTHONWEEKLY2022 to get a free ticket(the first 200 tickets) to this conference.

Virtual: Cleveland Python Meetup December 2022
There will be a talk, Designing and Building Large Applications using FastAPI.

VilniusPY #21 - Vilnius, Lithuania
There will be following talks

Event sourcing & CQRS with Django.
Mystery of AWS ALB timeouts.

PyBerlin 37 - Berlin, BE
There will be following talks

Compiling Python extension modules the hard way
How to Make Your Architecture Shine with DDD
Technical Leadership for everyone
A short history of Python web frameworks

PyLadies London - London
There will be talk, Create a documentation site for your Python API using Sphinx and Github Actions.

PyData London - London
There will be following talks

What's the Itch That Feature Stores Scratch?
Using BERT for Stable, Dynamic Topic Detection
Transcribing Unknown Languages
The Chemically Induced Christmas Experience

PyData Prague #13 - Prague
There will be following talks

Async Python modules in Rust
How we built a Python SDK for our (open) APIs

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