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Articles, Tutorials and Talks

College Precalculus – Full Course with Python Code

Learn college Precalculus from an experienced university mathematics professor. You will also learn how to implement all the Precalculus concepts using the Python programming language.

Llama 3 implemented in pure NumPy
Understand the exact structure with working implementation of the Llama 3 model.

Curating Custom Datasets for LLM Training with NVIDIA NeMo Curator
NeMo Curator, which is part of NVIDIA NeMo, offers workflows to download and curate data from various public sources out of the box such as Common Crawl, Wikipedia, and arXiv. It also provides flexibility for developers to customize data curation pipelines to address their unique requirements and create custom datasets. This post walks you through creating a custom data curation pipeline using NeMo Curator.

Kafka Consumers in Python - A Walkthrough

Getting data out of Apache Kafka is easy if you know how, so let's go through an example step-by-step. In this walkthrough we take you through the process of creating a simple Kafka Consumer using the Quix Streams library.

Replacing pyinstaller with 100 lines of code
A tale of how I accidentally stumbled upon some interesting tech over time.

Fine Tuning LLM Models – Generative AI Course

Learn how to fine tuning LLM models. This course will teach you fine tuning using using QLORA and LORA, as well as Quantization using LLama2, Gradient and the Google Gemma model. This crash course includes both theoretical and practical instruction to help you understand how to perform fine tuning.

Simple Pretty Maps That Will Better Your Python Streamlit Skills
A simple tutorial on creating beautiful maps using the prettymapp library.

A Beginner's Guide to Unit Testing with Pytest
In this guide, we will explore the core principles of unit testing, delve into Pytest's powerful capabilities, and equip you with the knowledge and skills to write clean, maintainable, and effective tests.

What I've Learned Building Interactive Embedding Visualizations
The post details the author's process for building interactive embedding visualizations from user data, such as representing entities like words, products, or users as points in a high-dimensional space and projecting them down to 2D or 3D for visual exploration. It covers the entire workflow, from data preparation to dimensionality reduction techniques and interactive visualization implementation.

How I made my GitHub profile README dynamic
The blog post explains how to create a dynamic GitHub profile README that displays up-to-date stats and information by leveraging GitHub Actions to periodically fetch data and generate a new README file.

Signals, shells, and docker: an onion of footguns
The post discusses potential security risks and "footguns" that can arise when using Docker containers, signals, and shells together in a development environment. It highlights how certain combinations of these tools can inadvertently grant excessive permissions or expose sensitive data, emphasizing the need for caution and proper configuration.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

llama3.np
A pure NumPy implementation for Llama 3 model.

AgentOps
Open source Python SDK for agent monitoring, LLM cost tracking, benchmarking, and more. Integrates with most LLMs and agent frameworks like CrewAI, Langchain, and Autogen.

llama3-from-scratch
llama3 implementation one matrix multiplication at a time.

LLM Models and RAG Hands-on Guide
This guide is designed for technical teams interested in developing basic conversational AI solutions using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).

FunClip
Open-source, accurate and easy-to-use video speech recognition & clipping tool, LLM based AI clipping intergrated.

cover-agent
An AI-Powered Tool for Automated Test Generation and Code Coverage Enhancement!

New Releases

Django 5.1 alpha 1 released

JupyterLab 4.2 and Notebook 7.2 are available!

Upcoming Events and Webinars

Portland Python Meetup May 2024
There will be a talk, Python, why are you like this? Python Gotchas and how to avoid them.

PyData Sofia Meetup May 2024
There will be a talk, Apache Arrow - Exploring the tech that powers the modern data (science) stack.

PyData Calgary Meetup May 2024
There will be a talk, NoSQL to SQL.. without ETL? A look at Azure Synapse Link.

PyData Stockholm Meetup May 2024
There will be following talks

Advancing one second at the time: Wolt's path optimizing efficient delivery platforms
Design data pipeline with GenAI

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