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Articles, Tutorials and Talks

Python.jl—Seamlessly blend Python and Julia

The talk introduces Python.jl, a Julia package that seamlessly blends Python and Julia syntax, allowing users to write code that mixes elements from both languages in a single environment. While presented as a lighthearted experiment, the project demonstrates Julia's flexibility in creating domain-specific languages and highlights the challenges of integrating two different programming languages.

The Python Package Index Should Get Rid Of Its Training Wheels
This article discusses challenges with storing pre-built binaries for Python packages on PyPI and proposes a solution for creating them on-demand to save space and make PyPI more sustainable.

Automatic async to sync code conversion
The article describes how Psycopg 3 implemented an automatic conversion system to generate synchronous Python code from asynchronous code, reducing code duplication and maintenance efforts. The process involves using Abstract Syntax Trees (AST) to transform async code into equivalent sync code, with custom transformations and helper functions to handle complex cases.

Inside Bento: Jupyter Notebooks at Meta

Meta has developed Bento, an internal platform that enhances Jupyter notebooks with features like version control, collaborative editing, and automated dependency management. This system, which handles over 150,000 notebooks and supports 18,000 monthly active users, aims to improve productivity and collaboration for data scientists and engineers across Meta's various teams and projects.

How to Use FastAPI for Machine Learning
Learn how to use FastAPI for machine learning. Explore the framework's benefits and why it's popular, and understand how to integrate it into your ML workflows.

Building RAG with Postgres
A step by step guide to building a RAG system with Postgres.

How to Design an AWESOME Function Signature in Python

This video demonstrates how to design a great function header in Python, highlighting aspects that are often overlooked but can significantly impact the quality of the code. Important considerations will be discussed to enhance coding practices and improve overall functionality.

Multi-dimensional Sparse Arrays in SciPy
The article explores multi-dimensional sparse arrays and their implementation in scientific computing, focusing on their efficiency in handling large datasets with mostly empty or zero-valued elements. It emphasizes the benefits of sparse arrays for memory optimization and computational performance in various data-heavy applications.

An In-Depth Guide to Contrastive Learning: Techniques, Models, and Applications
Discover the fundamentals of contrastive learning, including key techniques like SimCLR, MoCo, and CLIP. Learn how contrastive learning improves unsupervised learning and its practical applications.

rerankers: A Lightweight Python Library to Unify Ranking Methods
Re-ranking is an integral component of many retrieval pipelines; however, there exist numerous approaches to it, all with different implementation methods. To mitigate this, we propose rerankers, a Python library which provides a simple, easy-to-use interface to all commonly used re-ranking approaches.

Python Tutorial: Build a Course Platform with Django, HTMX, TailwindCSS and Cloudinary

Learn how to build a Course Platform from scratch. Host video-based courses, manage thumbnails, restrict access to confirmed emails only, optimize thumbnails, customize the Django admin and much more.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

nanodjango
Full Django in a single file - views, models, API ,with async support. Automatically convert it to a full project.

Moshi
A speech-text foundation model for real time dialogue.

MemoRAG
Empowering RAG with a memory-based data interface for all-purpose applications!

httpdbg
A tool for Python developers to easily debug the HTTP(S) client requests in a Python program.

Spiderweb
A small web framework, just big enough for a spider. Also check an article introducing it.

SurfSense
Personal AI Assistant for World Wide Web Surfers. Research & Never forget anything you see on the Internet.

streamable
Stream-like manipulation of Python iterables: fluent, typed, lazy, concurrent.

skrub
A Python library that facilitates prepping your tables for machine learning.

weather_landscape
Visualizing Weather Forecasts Through Landscape Imagery.

RoboTwin
Dual-Arm Robot Benchmark with Generative Digital Twins.

Upcoming Events and Webinars

PyData London Meetup October 2024
There will be following talks

Cosmos: Translating dbt to Apache Airflow
Real-time plane-spotting with Apache Druid and Python
Seamless array computation using ndonnx
DSPy - A new way of prompting with LLM

Hybrid: Michigan Python Meetup October 2024
There will be a talk, Automating eBay with Python.

PyData Lausanne Meetup October 2024
There will be following talks

Machine Learning and Computational Chemistry: Tackling the Complexities of Chemical Reactivity in Condensed Phases
A friendly guide to Python packaging

PyData Riyadh Meetup September 2024
There will be a talk, Writing (Machine) Friendly Code.

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