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Articles, Tutorials and Talks

5 Horrifying Python Techniques to get you fired

Python is a great language, with a few... exploits. While a lot of implementation details make it easier to work with, they also lead to quirks - quirks which can be exploited for fun (and profit?). Whether it's variables, match statements, type hinting, imports, or even just trying to fit everything on one line, this talk has more than a few slithering tricks up its sleeve.

Extending web applications with WebAssembly and Python
This article shows how you can run a Python program within another application that uses a Wasm runtime (host) and have the Python program talk to the host and vice versa.

“Externally managed environments”: when PEP 668 breaks pip
You’re on a new version of Linux, you try a pip install, and it errors out, talking about “externally managed environments” and “PEP 668”. What’s going on? How do you solve this?

Deploy a Voice-Based Chatbot with BentoML, LangChain, and Gradio
The article provides a tutorial on how to deploy a voice-based chatbot using several open-source tools, including BentoML, LangChain, and Gradio. It covers the steps for building and training a chatbot model, integrating it with voice commands, and deploying the model as a web service for real-time interactions with users.

You probably don't know how to do Prompt Engineering
Features missing from most LLM front-ends that should exist.

Bevy v2.0 - The Simple Python Dependency Injection Framework
Modern software can be complex, with many components that depend on each other. It can be hard to manage those dependencies without your project becoming a mess of spaghetti code. This article introduces you to Bevy v2.0, a robust Dependency Injection framework that will help you simplify your Python applications.

Trusted Publishing; how to publish to PyPI with Github Actions

Polars Crash Course: Python's Library of Big Data Analytics

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

Tabby
Self-hosted AI coding assistant. An opensource / on-prem alternative to GitHub Copilot.

Shap-E
Generate 3D objects conditioned on text or images.

AutoFinetune
TuneAI or "autoFinetune" is an effortless way to fine tune an OpenAI model based on YouTube or text input. Automating transcript cleaning & prompt-completion pair generation

TemporalKit
An all in one solution for adding Temporal Stability to a Stable Diffusion Render via an automatic1111 extension.

llm-foundry
LLM training code for MosaicML foundation models.

ReLLM
Exact structure out of any language model completion.

RasaGPT
RasaGPT is the first headless LLM chatbot platform built on top of Rasa and Langchain.

abacus
A minimal, yet valid double-entry accounting system in Python.

django-docker-quickstart
Your all-in-one Django-Docker starter kit. Pre-configured services including PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery, with Nginx and Traefik for production. Streamlined development with included tools for testing and formatting.

privateGPT
Interact privately with your documents using the power of GPT, 100% privately, no data leaks.

New Releases

Python in Visual Studio Code – May 2023 Release
This release includes the following announcements:

Jupyter extension no longer installed by default
Microvenv support for Create Environment command
Automatic conversion of f-strings with Pylance
Code navigation enabled on strings that contain module names

Upcoming Events and Webinars

PyData Munich Meetup May 2023
There will be following talks

Cutting Through the Hype: Jina AI's Scalable Open-Source Solutions for Multimodal AI
LongForm: Improve instruction tuning with corpus examples and generated instructions

PyData Trojmiasto Meetup May 2023
There will be following talks

Demystifying AI acceleration
Stable Diffusion in practice

PyData Berlin Meetup May 2023
There will be following talks

Bayesian A/B Testing - Is it worth it?
Thinking outside of the Euclidean Space: Graph Machine Learning with Fastgraphml

PyData Cambridge Meetup May 2023
There will be following talks

Faster, Cheaper, and Greener BigData
Taming the open data science stack for the enterprise

PyData Pittsburgh Meetup May 2023
There will be a talk, Small Big Data: using NumPy and Pandas when your data doesn't fit in memory.

PyData Bristol Meetup May 2023
There will be following talks

Open Sourcing AutoML
Building online learners with RiverML
Cooking up a new search system: Inside recipe search at Cookpad

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