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Welcome to issue 405 of Python Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

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Articles, Tutorials and Talks

Python consumes a lot of memory or how to reduce the size of objects?

A memory problem may arise when a large number of objects are active in RAM during the execution of a program, especially if there are restrictions on the total amount of available memory. Below is an overview of some methods of reducing the size of objects, which can significantly reduce the amount of RAM needed for programs in pure Python.

Introducing Dagster

A open-source Python library for building data applications.

Python Machine Learning Tutorial: Predicting Airbnb Prices

Learn about machine learning in Python and build your very first ML model from scratch to predict Airbnb prices using k-nearest neighbors.

Keras ImageDataGenerator and Data Augmentation

In today’s tutorial, you will learn how to use Keras’ ImageDataGenerator class to perform data augmentation. I’ll also dispel common confusions surrounding what data augmentation is, why we use data augmentation, and what it does/does not do.

Heroku Chatbot with Celery, WebSockets, and Redis.

Let’s create a Chatbot which can execute tasks asynchronously using Celery and communicate via WebSockets.

Avoiding speeding tickets with Python, Mapbox and OverpassQL

I got a speeding ticket :( Lets make a bot to display all the speed camera locations in my city using Python and OpenStreetMap data and make sure it never happens again!

Build a Celebrity Look-Alike Detector with Azure’s Face Detect and Python

This article describes how to use Microsoft Azure's Face API with python to identify faces in images and determine if they are of the same person.

The Python Help System

When writing and running your Python programs, you may get stuck and need to get help. You may need to know the meaning of certain modules, classes, functions, keywords, etc. The good news is that Python comes with an built-in help system. This means that you don't have to seek help outside of Python itself. In this article, you will learn how to use the built-in Python help system.

A deep dive on Python type hints

Fastest Way to Load Data Into PostgreSQL Using Python

Spiking Neural Network (SNN) with PyTorch: towards bridging the gap between deep learning and the human brain

Benchmarking TensorFlow Lite on the New Raspberry Pi 4, Model B

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Sneak peek at Python 3.8

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

python_autocomplete

A simple neural network for python autocompletion.

numpy-ml

Machine learning, in numpy.

dlrm

An implementation of a deep learning recommendation model (DLRM)

Tensorpack

Tensorpack is a neural network training interface based on TensorFlow.

more-itertools

More routines for operating on iterables, beyond itertools.

Cocktailmaker_AW

A Python and Qt Based App for a Cocktail machine

HTTP Toolkit

Instantly view & debug all HTTP traffic from any Python tool, script, or server.

TedEval

A Fair Evaluation Metric for Scene Text Detectors.

redis-rogue-server

An exploit for Redis(<=5.0.5) RCE, inspired by Redis post-exploitation.

DarkScrape

OSINT Tool For Scraping Dark Websites.

New Releases

Python 3.7.4

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