Python Weekly (Issue 429 December 26 2019)

Python Weekly - Issue 429

December 26, 2019

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Welcome to issue 429 of Python Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

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Articles, Tutorials and Talks

A pretty cool post that shows you how you can use iPad Pro for software development using the Raspberry Pi 4 as a USB device.

Federal public comment websites currently are unable to detect Deepfake Text once submitted. A Harvard undergrad created a computer program (a bot) that generated and submitted 1,001 deepfake comments regarding a Medicaid reform waiver to a federal public comment website, stopping submission when these comments comprised more than half of all submitted comments. He then formally withdrew the bot comments.

Due to its simplicity, Flask is a very popular web framework for building REST APIs in Python - particularly for serving Machine Learning models. In this post we'll learn how to migrate to the newer FastAPI framework to take advantage of advances in type checking and asynchronous programming.

Not sure which evaluation metric you should choose for your binary classification problem? After reading this post you should have a good idea. You will learn about a bunch of common and lesser-known evaluation metrics and charts to understand how to choose the model performance metric for your problem.

Did a little Christmas special programming project by making an animated Christmas Tree that runs in your terminal. Sometimes programming can be fun, this is one of those times.

This is a tutorial on building the API+UI of NLP text classification web application and deploying it to production.

Whether delivering an executable, a virtual environment, your packaged code, or a full application, this list includes both standard systems and some up-and-comers to keep in mind as we enter 2020.

Creating video is easy, but who’s got time to watch it all? I propose a video search engine to find relevant moments (prototype included).

This article discusses how to build an interactive dashboard to analyze reddit content and display interactive graphs of the result using Voilà.

In this post, you will learn the basic principles of Dependency Injection and how to implement it in Python using the Pinject library.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

Image Polygonal Annotation with Python (polygon, rectangle, circle, line, point and image-level flag annotation).

Checkov is a static code analysis tool for infrastructure-as-code. It scans cloud infrastructure provisioned using Terraform and detects security and compliance misconfigurations.

A minimalistic news aggregator built with Flask and powered by News API.

Utility belt to handle data on AWS.

Turn an image into sound whose spectrogram looks like the image.

A simple tool to make ascii art from an image using excel colored cells.

SharedVault is a small application that allows you to define a secret that will require multiple people to unlock.

A Fully Homomorphic Encryption Brainf**k virtual machine.

masscan is fast, nmap can fingerprint software and vulners is a huge vulnerability database. Silver is a front-end that allows complete utilization of these programs by parsing data, spawning parallel processes, caching vulnerability data for faster scanning over time and much more.

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