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Articles, Tutorials and Talks

Generative AI Full Course – Gemini Pro, OpenAI, Llama, Langchain, Pinecone, Vector Databases & More

Learn about generative models and different frameworks, investigating the production of text and visual material produced by artificial intelligence.

GPT Pilot – what we learned in 6 months of working on a CodeGen pair programmer
The article discusses the learnings from six months of working on a CodeGen pair programmer, GPT Pilot, aiming to have human developers understand the codebase and provide detailed explanations of added code to facilitate collaboration between human developers and AI in coding tasks

Dependency Injection Explained in 7 Minutes

This video explains why dependency injection is a game-changer for your coding projects. Creating loosely coupled code is key to making the code more flexible and more maintainable. This is all possible through the implicit use of dependencies.

Deploy Mistral Large to Azure and create a conversation with Python and LangChain
Step-by-step guide to deploying Mistral Large to Azure.

A Retrospective on Requests
python-requests has been around for a long time. I've been a maintainer for many years and I share some retrospective thoughts on the project.

Mamba: The Hard Way
A post about Mamba, a recent neural architecture that can be roughly thought of as a modern recurrent neural network (RNN). The model works really well and is a legitimate competitor with the ubiquitous Transformer architecture. It has gotten a lot of attention.

Why pandas feels clunky when coming from R
The post discusses challenges and perceptions of transitioning from R to Pandas in Python, exploring reasons why Pandas might feel clunky to users accustomed to R. The author provides insights and tips to ease the transition and improve the Pandas experience.

Advanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation: From Theory to LlamaIndex Implementation
How to address limitations of naive RAG pipelines by implementing targeted advanced RAG techniques in Python.

Build a typing assistant with Mistral 7B and Ollama

In this Python tutorial, we'll build a typing assistant with Mistral 7B and Ollama that's running locally. You'll also learn how to implement a hotkey listener and keyboard controller with Python. Follow along in this step-by-step coding tutorial.

Advanced Web Scraping With Python: Extract Data From Any Site
This article covers how to get and manage cookies and custom headers, avoid TLS fingerprinting, recognize important HTTP headers to send in requests, and how to implement exponential-backoff HTTP request retrying.

Build a Retrieval-Augmented Generation Chatbot in 5 Minutes

In under 5 minutes and with only 100 lines of Python code, Rohan Rao, senior solutions architect at NVIDIA, demos how large language models (LLMs) can be developed and deployed for AI chatbot applications—without needing your own GPU infrastructure.

Python Dependencies Are Fixable
The article critiques the current state of Python's dependency management, emphasizing the need for better defaults and user experience. Drawing parallels with Golang's successful design, the author advocates for a shift in mentality within the Pypa ecosystem to improve the default behavior of tools like Pip and suggests exploring alternatives if necessary.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

ingestr
ingestr is a CLI tool to copy data between any databases with a single command seamlessly.

ok-robot
An open, modular framework for zero-shot, language conditioned pick-and-drop tasks in arbitrary homes.

Evo
DNA foundation modeling from molecular to genome scale.

AutoPrompt
Auto Prompt is a prompt optimization framework designed to enhance and perfect your prompts for real-world use cases.

PyRIT
The Python Risk Identification Tool for generative AI (PyRIT) is an open access automation framework to empower security professionals and machine learning engineers to proactively find risks in their generative AI systems.

gemma_pytorch
The official PyTorch implementation of Google's Gemma models.

justpath
Inspect and refine PATH environment variable on both Windows and Linux.

Mountaineer
Mountaineer is a batteries-included web framework for Python and React.

sqlbind
Lightweight text-based SQL parameter binds.

hotpdf
hotpdf is a fast PDF parsing library to extract text and find text within PDF documents built on top of pdfminer.six

Sensei
Generate Synthetic Data Using OpenAI or MistralAI.

New Releases

JupyterLab 4.1 and Notebook 7.1 are here
JupyterLab 4.1 and Notebook 7.1 are now available! These releases include several new features, bug fixes, and enhancements for extension developers. This release is compatible with extensions supporting JupyterLab 4.0 and Notebook 7.0.

Python in Visual Studio Code – March 2024 Release
This release includes the following announcements:

New Add Imports Code Action heuristics setting
Automatically start your browser when debugging Django or Flask apps
Shell integration for the Python REPL
Language support for locally running Jupyter servers

Upcoming Events and Webinars

PyData London Meetup March 2024
There will be following talks

Building the single-source-of-truth: developing a system for large-scale entity resolution
The future of AI: Opensource LLMs

IndyPy Meetup March 2024
There will be a talk, Eclipse Insights: How AI is Transforming Solar Astronomy.

Python Milano Meetup March 2024
There will be following talks

Python for (Board) Game Design
Python for Designers

Cleveland PyLadies Meetup March 2024
There will be discussion and learning about the field of Prompt Engineering.

PyData Südwest Meetup March 2024
There will be following talks

Going beyond Parquet's default settings – be surprised what you can get - Uwe Korn
Profiling and Optimising Model Prediction Services -Paolo Rechia

PyData Manchester Meetup March 2024
There will be a talk, Developing Valuable ML Products.

PyData Atlanta Meetup March 2024
There will be a talk, Unleashing the Power of Generative AI in Business Applications.

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