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PyCon AU 2023 Call For Proposals
We’re looking for talks on everything Python, open source, and tech-related. If it would be of interest to someone, anyone, in the Python community, it’s of interest to us! The PyCon AU call for proposals (CFP) is open until the end of Sunday 14 May, anywhere on earth.

Articles, Tutorials and Talks

Building Your 1st AI App with Replit!

Learn to code your 1st AI app in 21 lines of Python in ~30min!

Run ChatGPT-Style Questions Over Your Own Files Using the OpenAI API and LangChain!
The article explains how to use Langchain and the OpenAI API to run ChatGPT-style questions over your own files. It provides a step-by-step guide to using these tools and discusses the potential applications and limitations of this approach.

Compromising Garmin’s Sport Watches: A Deep Dive into GarminOS and its MonkeyC Virtual Machine
The article provides a detailed analysis of how Garmin's sports watches were compromised through their MonkeyC virtual machine, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code and potentially access sensitive user information. The author describes the vulnerabilities and outlines steps that Garmin could take to improve the security of their products.

Debugging a Mixed Python and C Language Stack
This post shows how a RAPIDS team approached debugging multiple programming languages, including the use of GDB to identify and resolve deadlocks. The team is dedicated to designing software to accelerate and scale data science solutions

Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500,000 group chat messages
The author trained an uncensored large language model on the college-era group chat that he and his best friends still use, with LlaMa, Modal, and Hex.

Introducing 'Trusted Publishers'
The post introduces a new feature called Trusted Publishers for the Python Package Index (PyPI) which aims to improve the security of the package distribution process by allowing package maintainers to verify their identities. The author describes how the feature works and highlights its potential impact on the PyPI community.

Introducing Delphic —a Production Grade Starter App to use LLMs to Query Your Own Documents
The post introduces Delphic, a starter application for using low-latency model serving (LLMS) to query your own documents. It provides an overview of the features and benefits of Delphic, as well as instructions for getting started with the application.

PyTorch Performance Features and How They Interact
PyTorch has many performance features that can be tuned to improve the speed of your model. The best way to tune your model is to experiment with different settings and measure the results.

Solve Schrödinger Equation in Seconds with Python & GPU

The second episode of the Python GPU series explores the Schrodinger equation and how it can be optimized using GPU hardware.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

MiniGPT-4
Enhancing Vision-language Understanding with Advanced Large Language Models.

rye
An experimental alternative to poetry/pip/pipenv/pyenv/venv/virtualenv/pdm/hatch/…

Bark
Text-Prompted Generative Audio Model.

jupyter-ai
A generative AI extension for JupyterLab.

gptdeploy
Turn your natural language descriptions into fully functional, deployed AI-powered microservices with a single command! Your imagination is the limit!

pyautoenv
Automatically activate and deactivate Python environments as you move around the file system.

pdfGPT
PDF GPT allows you to chat with the contents of your PDF file by using GPT capabilities.

Agent-LLM
An Artificial Intelligence Automation Platform. AI Instruction management from various providers, has an adaptive memory, and a versatile plugin system with many commands including web browsing. Supports many AI providers and models and growing support every day.

segment-geospatial
A Python package for segmenting geospatial data with the Segment Anything Model (SAM).

krr
Prometheus-based Kubernetes Resource Recommendations.

msm
Improved statistical classifier for immune repertoires.

griptape
Python framework for AI workflows and pipelines with chain of thought reasoning, external tools, and memory.

Chat-with-Github-Repo
This repository contains two Python scripts that demonstrate how to create a chatbot using Streamlit, OpenAI GPT-3.5-turbo, and Activeloop's Deep Lake.

Track-Anything
Track-Anything is a flexible and interactive tool for video object tracking and segmentation, based on Segment Anything, XMem, and E2FGVI.

semantra
Semantra is a multipurpose tool for semantically searching documents. Query by meaning rather than just by matching text.

New Releases

Flask 2.3.0

Upcoming Events and Webinars

PyData London Meetup May 2023
There will be following talks

Billion-Scale Facial Recognition
How to build a scalable robots ensemble to collect big microscope imaging data
LangChain, GPT-3, and Me: Promises and Perils of Language Models
Software Engineer to Machine Learning Engineer

PyData Prague Meetup May 2023
There will be following talks

Sign language recognition: Enabling communication for the hearing-impaired through machine learning
A unified interface for machine learning with time series - an introduction

PyData Hamburg Meetup May 2023
There will be following talks

Embedding code expressions in backend services
Advanced Demand Forecasting Techniques for Business Value Creation

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