Python Weekly (Issue 350 - June 7 2018)

Python Weekly - Issue 350

June 07, 2018

Python Weekly

Welcome to issue 350 of Python Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

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Articles, Tutorials and Talks

How to automatically create machine learning features.

Learn the basic data types that are built into Python, like numbers, strings, and Booleans. You'll also get an overview of Python's built-in functions.

An end-to-end example of how to build a system that can search objects semantically.

While quantum computation still seems like science fiction magic, it's nevertheless beginning to enter into mainstream programming in the here and now.

Learn the basics of Elasticsearch, its setup, and implementation in Python.

This post demystifies the process of writing a real-time chat application with Django, Swift, and (most important) a relational database structure. Using a relational database along with ORM to structure your data opens up a world of flexibility, especially hosting options, that aren’t available to you using Firebase. After tinkering with several different implementations, I’ve put together this write-up covering everything from the front-end UI to socket communications.

Learn how to use multiple fully-connected heads and multiple loss functions to create a multi-output deep neural network using Python, Keras, and deep learning.

How we use inspect, ast and the Django system check framework to improve our development process.

In this tutorial, you will discover the five types of plots that you will need to know when visualizing data in Python and how to use them to better understand your own data.

If you use Python, there's a good chance you have heard of IPython, which provides an enhanced read-eval-print loop (REPL) for Python. But there is more to IPython than just a more convenient REPL. Today's IPython comes with integrated libraries that turn it into an assistant for several advanced computing tasks.  We will look at two of those tasks, using multiple languages and distributed computing, in this article.

Python Jobs of the Week

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

Open source platform for the complete machine learning lifecycle.

A Python project where YURI from the game doki doki literature club accesses the webcam and stares directly into the players soul. You can see

here. 

whipFTP is a FTP/SFTP client written in python using the tkinter GUI toolkit. Can upload, download, create, rename, copy, move and search files/folders.

IPSRC is a program that allows you to keep track of your home computer's IP. It allows your server to automatically get its IP, encrypt it, and broadcast it on a platform of your choice. 

An easy-to-use Python wrapper for the Don Best Sports Data API.

Minimal implementation of YOLOv3 in PyTorch.

An interface to manage and control a remote chrome instance via the Chrome Debugging Protocol interface.

A fast, efficient universal vector embedding utility package.

Play your favorite radio station from the terminal.

A tool (and pre-commit hook) to automatically upgrade syntax for newer versions of the language.

New Releases

Upcoming Events and Webinars

This week special guests David Lord and Armin Ronacher, maintainers of Flask, will be joining us to discuss Flask and answer your Flask-related questions.

There will be following talks

  • Controlling a Quantum Computer with Python

  • Keras-Pandas

  • Ethics for the professional engineer

  • Giving Thanks for Python

There will be following talks

  • Making Python decorators as accessible as a sandwich

  • Keep up with the rapid pace of technology & continuously learn new skills to be a better developer

  • CherryPy

There will be a talk, Pseudonymization Techniques in Python.

There will be a talk, Using Python to Generate an OpenAPI CLI Client.

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