Python Weekly (Issue 379 December 27 2018)

Python Weekly - Issue 379

December 27, 2018

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Welcome to issue 379 of Python Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

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News

Articles, Tutorials and Talks

Lambda function in Python is an anonymous function. They are a short and powerful functional programming technique in Python. Here is a complete tutorial on the concept of Lambda functions.

This guide provides step-by-step instructions for how to set up TensorFlow’s Object Detection API on the Raspberry Pi. By following the steps in this guide, you will be able to use your Raspberry Pi to perform object detection on live video feeds from a Picamera or USB webcam. 

An explorable explanation of python dictionaries.

Learn how to connect to the Twitch Internet Relay Chat (IRC) using Sockets in Python and stream chat data for text analysis.

Does one directly affect the other?

Learn how to build your own recommendation engine with the help of Python and Surprise Library, Collaborative Filtering.

Take advantage of computing power and empirical data to use Monte Carlo simulation to perform experiment power analysis.

In this article, we are going to quickly build and deploy a blazing fast REST API in Python web framework using Falcon. While walking through this article you will first learn the basics of Falcon framework, installing it on Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS), building a Rest API for the app and finally deploying the app on the cloud.

In this tutorial, you will learn how the Keras .fit  and .fit_generator  functions work, including the differences between them.

Books

The clean architecture is the opposite of spaghetti code, where everything is interlaced and there are no single elements that can be easily detached from the rest and replaced without the whole system collapsing. The main point of the clean architecture is to make clear "what is where and why", and this should be your first concern while you design and implement a software system, whatever architecture or development methodology you want to follow.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

Case studies in successfully shipping Python software.

A Python toolbox for performing gradient-free optimization.

A Python IDE made with PyQt5 + QScintilla.

Python examples of popular machine learning algorithms with interactive Jupyter demos and math being explained.

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A modern Python web framework filled with asynchronous salsa.

Library for training machine learning models with privacy for training data.

A tool to scan Kubernetes cluster for risky permissions.

Python command line wrapper for the shodan.io API.

Fast Python JSON library.

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