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Intel Publishes Blazing Fast AVX-512 Sorting Library, Numpy Switching To It For 10~17x Faster Sorts
Intel recently published an open-source C++ header file library for high performance SIMD-based sorting, which initially is focused on providing a lightning fast AVX-512 quicksort implementation. As of today that code has been merged to Numpy and is providing some 10~17x speed-ups.

Articles, Tutorials and Talks

Data Classification
Does Python still have a need for class without @dataclass?

Migrating from Flask to FastAPI, Part 2
Here's the second part of the blog series about the migration from Flask to FastAPI. In this one we'll see all the main code changes and refactors you would need to do.

Man and machine: GPT for second brains
In this post, I discuss how I used GPT embeddings to build a smart search tool for my second brain note-taking system.

How to Use FastAPI: A Detailed Python Tutorial

In this tutorial, I'll show you how to get started with FastAPI in Python. By the end of this video, you'll know everything you need to get started with developing your own APIs!

The state of Python in blockchain - 2023 report
This report provides an overview of the current state of Python programming language technologies in blockchain software development ecosystems for 2023. We examine blockchain projects and tooling that use Python or are related to Python and why this overlap is significant. We highlight new and exciting projects and opportunities for Python developers.

Analyzing How Much Time I Spend in Meetings
I will show you how I ran some simple analytics on my Google Calendar history over almost 7 years. I used SingleStoreDB for this, but it should be straightforward to do this with any database.

Understanding and Coding the Self-Attention Mechanism of Large Language Models From Scratch
In this article, we are going to understand how self-attention works from scratch. This means we will code it ourselves one step at a time.

GPT in 60 Lines of NumPy
In this post, we'll implement a GPT from scratch in just 60 lines of numpy. We'll then load the trained GPT-2 model weights released by OpenAI into our implementation and generate some text.

The Heisenbug lurking in your async code

Caching a lot of methods in Python

What's New in SQLAlchemy 2.0?

How to Build a Dividend Investing Dashboard in Python and Streamlit

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

ResearchGPT
An open-source LLM based research assistant that allows you to have a conversation with a research paper.

NoteSH
NoteSH fully functional sticky notes App in your Terminal!

milli-py
Python bindings for Milli, the embeddable Rust-based search engine powering Meilisearch.

ControlNet
ControlNet is a neural network structure to control diffusion models by adding extra conditions.

EdgeGPT
Reverse engineered API of Microsoft's Bing Chat.

Polymath
Convert any music library into a music production sample-library with ML.

pyCirclize
Circular visualization in Python (Circos Plot, Chord Diagram).

LAVIS
A One-stop Library for Language-Vision Intelligence.

New Releases

Django security releases issued: 4.1.7, 4.0.10, and 3.2.18

Upcoming Events and Webinars

Python Barcelona Meetup February 2023
There will be a talk, Python and ChatGPT: (chuckles) I'm in danger.

PyLadies Amsterdam Meetup February 2023
There will be following talks

A tale of machine-learning operations: From organically grown infrastructure, to a mature ML platform
MLOps: why and how to build end-to-end product teams
Distributed Learning Opportunities and Challenges

PyData Amsterdam Meetup February 2023
There will be following talks

DuckDB: Bringing analytical SQL directly to your Python shell
Se*y Enterprise Data Orchestration

PyData Lancaster Meetup February 2023
There will be following talks

Let's Chat about ChatGPT
Data Science with DevOps: What is "good"?"

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