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Pytest Tutorial – How to Test Python Code

Learn how to use pytest, the powerful testing framework for Python. Throughout this course you'll gain a deep understanding of pytest's features, best practices, and the nuances of writing effective tests. And at the end, you'll learn how you can use ChatGPT to help you write tests quicker.

Acoustic Analysis and Prediction of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Using Smartphone-Recorded Voice Segments
To investigate the potential of voice analysis as a prescreening or monitoring tool for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) by examining the differences in voice recordings between nondiabetic and T2DM individuals.

Embeddings: What they are and why they matter
In this article, Simon Willison explores the concept of embeddings in data analysis and machine learning, highlighting their role in representing complex data for efficient processing and providing practical insights on their use.

We Have To Talk About Flask
Miguel Grinberg writes that Flask maintainers often introduce trivial backwards incompatible changes into new releases of Flask and Werkzeug, causing extensions and tutorials to break until they are updated. There is now an update to this post as well.

What are lambda expressions?
Learn what lambda expressions are and how they are used in Python.

Speeding up Cython with SIMD
SIMD is a CPU feature that lets you speed up numeric processing; learn how to use it with Cython.

Plug your application into the Jupyter world
Kernels are a simple but powerful abstraction in the Jupyter architecture. They encapsulate language interpreters and make them accessible through a standardized interface. This is the key to Jupyter’s remarkable versatility, with over 100 supported languages. Embedding a kernel in your custom application can seamlessly expose it to the Jupyter ecosystem. Not only can you attach JupyterLab to your program for e.g. state inspection, as you would do with a debugger, but you can truly extend your application with all the power of the Jupyter ecosystem.

How to deploy conda-based docker images
Learn how to get your conda-based docker images down to a reasonable size using three things.

Infinite scroll with django and htmx
Tutorial on how to implement infinite scroll using django and htmx.

How to add Google sheets as your Django database in 4 minutes

In under 4 minutes, we'll add Google sheets as your Django database. This is ideal for faster prototyping and small products.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

Genv
GPU environment management and cluster orchestration

RIP
Fast, barebones pip implementation in Rust.

LocalPilot
Use GitHub Copilot locally on your Macbook with one-click!

autotab
Build browser agents for real world tasks.

GRID
Platform for General Robot Intelligence Development.

RenderCV
A Python application that creates a CV in PDF from a YAML/JSON input file.

Waymax
A JAX-based simulator for autonomous driving research.

DeepSparse
Sparsity-aware deep learning inference runtime for CPUs.

GenSim
Generating Robotic Simulation Tasks via Large Language Models.

Voyager
Voyager is a library for performing fast approximate nearest-neighbor searches on an in-memory collection of vectors.

pypipe
Python pipe command line tool.

dlt
data load tool (dlt) — the open-source Python library for data loading.

Deep-Learning-Ultra
Open source Deep Learning Containers (DLCs) are a set of Docker images for training and serving models in PyTorch, OpenCV (compiled for GPU), TensorFlow 2 for GPU, PyG and NVIDIA RAPIDS.

higgsfield
Fault-tolerant, highly scalable GPU orchestration, and a machine learning framework designed for training models with billions to trillions of parameters

New Releases

Django 5.0 beta 1 released

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