Python Weekly (Issue 537 February 10 2022)

Python Weekly - Issue 537

February 10, 2022

Python Weekly

Welcome to issue 537 of Python Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

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News

DjangoCon Europe 2022 will be held from the 21st - 25th September in Porto, Portugal, hopefully, but we're already looking ahead to next year's conference. Could your town - or your football stadium, circus tent, private island, or city hall - host this wonderful community event?

Articles, Tutorials and Talks

A Zelda-style RPG in Python that includes a lot of elements you need for a sophisticated game like graphics and animations, fake depth; upgrade mechanics, a level map and quite a bit more. 

Some of the tricks we used to speed up calls to our analytical API written in Python: played with asyncio, messed with SQLAlchemy, hacked deep in asyncpg, rewrote parts in Cython, found better data structures, replaced some pandas with pure numpy.

FastAPI, Vercel, Arctype, and Postgres form a potent stack of software technologies. This article will show you how to build a simple task manager that takes advantage of these modern tools.

In this video, we are going to implement the GPT2 model from scratch. We are only going to focus on the inference and not on the training logic. We will cover concepts like self attention, decoder blocks and generating new tokens.

How to seamlessly support typing.Protocol on Python versions older and newer than 3.8. At the same time.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

An open-source big data platform designed and optimized for the Internet of Things (IoT).

The framework which helps you create reactive microservices in Python.

pls is a better ls for developers. 

django-idom allows Django to integrate with IDOM, a reactive Python web framework for building interactive websites without needing a single line of Javascript.

The most delicious API on the web. Just send a request and you'll receive the most mouth watering dish recipe with estimated cooking time and all the necessary ingredients and instructions.

Distributed and decentralized training framework for PyTorch over graph.

scvi-tools (single-cell variational inference tools) is a package for probabilistic modeling and analysis of single-cell omics data, built on top of PyTorch and AnnData.

Dynamo is a computational framework that includes an inclusive model of expression dynamics with scSLAM-seq / multiomics, vector field reconstruction and potential landscape mapping.

An efficient toolkit for training deep models. 

Run Windows Applications on Linux as if they are native, Use linux applications to launch files files located in windows vm without needing to install applications on vm. With easy to use configuration GUI

New Releases

This release includes:

  • Smart Selection

  • Folding support

  • Improvements to the Python interpreters list

  • Improvements when using Anaconda

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There will be a talk, Better Data Governance with Revision Control Workflows.

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