Python Weekly (Issue 484 January 28 2020)

Python Weekly - Issue 484

January 28, 2021

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News

Articles, Tutorials and Talks

We’ve all had a hard drive fail on us, and often it’s as sudden as booting your machine and realizing you can’t access a bunch of your files. It’s not a fun experience. It’s especially not fun when you have an entire data center full of drives that are all important to keeping your business running. What if we could predict when one of those drives would fail, and get ahead of it by preemptively replacing the hardware before the data is lost?

How I (almost) replicated OpenAI's GPT-2 (124M version).

A realistic look at Python web frameworks.

Python native enums are great for what they were designed to do, but we’ve found that they are limited and don’t allow you to grow the complexity and usage in a sane way. 

Learn how experienced developers use environment variables in Python, including managing default values and typecasting.

A complete explanation of the inner workings of Support Vector Machines (SVM) and Radial Basis Function (RBF) kernel.

This is part one of a two-part series and handles all of the hardware and wiring and a Python script for test firing the engines.

A fun project and detailed walkthrough of data analytics steps to help you learn Python, pandas and matplotlib.

In this tutorial, you will discover how to develop a Multilayer Perceptron neural network model for the Swedish car insurance regression dataset.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

Edifice is a Python library for building reactive UI, inspired by modern Javascript libraries such as React. Edifice makes it simple to build a fully reactive UI without ever leaving Python, getting the best of both worlds.

Command-line tool for quickly looking up colors, shades and palettes.

Scrapera provides access to a variety of scraper scripts for most commonly used machine learning and data science domains.

Driving lessons made simpler. Custom scheduling API built with Python.

Timeflake is a 128-bit, roughly-ordered, URL-safe UUID.

Spokestack is a library that allows a user to easily incorporate a voice interface into a Python application.

Python library for using dplyr like syntax with pandas and SQL.

ETL processes for medical and scientific papers.

APT-Hunter is Threat Hunting tool for windows event logs which made by purple team mindset to provide detect APT movements hidden in the sea of windows event logs to decrease the time to uncover suspicious activity.

MushroomRL is a Python Reinforcement Learning (RL) library whose modularity allows to easily use well-known Python libraries for tensor computation (e.g. PyTorch, Tensorflow) and RL benchmarks (e.g. OpenAI Gym, PyBullet, Deepmind Control Suite). 

Classical Aerodynamics of potential flow using Python and Jupyter Notebooks.

New Releases

This was a short release where we closed a total of 13 issues, and it includes a data viewer when debugging and PYTHONPATH support with Pylance.

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