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Snyk finds PyPi malware that steals Discord and Roblox credential and payment info

Learn about the newly discovered PyPi malware that attempts to steal credential and payment information from Discord and Roblox users.

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The spelled-out intro to neural networks and backpropagation: building micrograd 

Andrej Karpathy gives the most step-by-step spelled-out explanation of backpropagation and training of neural networks. It only assumes basic knowledge of Python and a vague recollection of calculus from high school.

Advanced Python: Achieving High Performance with Code Generation

If the phrase “hand-rolled bytecode” makes you laugh maniacally, this article is for you. If it makes you think “this is almost certainly a terrible idea,” then you have the right level of caution to be considering using it. This method is a powerful footgun and should be handled with care.

Introduction to streaming for data scientists

As machine learning moves towards real-time, streaming technology is becoming increasingly important for data scientists. With luck, as a data scientist, you shouldn’t have to build or maintain a streaming system yourself. Your company should have infrastructure to help you with this. However, understanding where streaming is useful and why streaming is hard could help you evaluate the right tools and allocate sufficient resources for your needs.

Event-Driven Architecture with React and FastAPI 

Learn about event-driven architecture by building a real-world project using FastAPI, React, and Redis. 

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SPONSORFrom late-bound arguments to deferred computation, part 1Back in November, we looked at a Python proposal to have function arguments with defaults that get evaluated when the function is called, rather than when it is defined. The article suggested that the discussion surrounding the proposal was likely to continue on for a while—which it did—but it had died down by the end of last year. That all changed in mid-June, when the already voluminous discussion of the feature picked up again; once again, some people thought that applying the idea only to function arguments was too restrictive. Instead, a more general mechanism to defer evaluation was touted as something that could work for late-bound arguments while being useful for other use cases as well.How to Create a Blog Post Title Optimizer with GPT-3 and Hacker News DataMany know GPT-3 as a tool for robust text generation. But a newer, lesser discussed feature that OpenAI allows is fine tuning GPT-3 on data you provide. If I provide GPT-3 with a large dataset of good titles, can I use that to tell me if one of my blog post titles are good? Let’s give it a try.Stardew Valley Game Clone with Python and Pygame Create a Stardew Valley style game with Python and Pyagme. This includes farming and foraging, a day and night cycle, weather effects and a merchant. The game was also made in Tiled so you can expand it yourself.Introducing a project template for modern Python packagesWe open sourced a project template for modern Python packages. In this blog post, we describe what it contains and discuss the choices made while developing it.The Magic of Matplotlib StylesheetsA tutorial on how to make your very own custom stylesheet and level up visualizations with Matplotlib Stylesheets. Interesting Projects, Tools and LibrariessematicPrototype-to-production ML in days not weeks.ergA Python-compatible statically typed language.DeepPurposeA Deep Learning Toolkit for DTI, Drug Property, PPI, DDI, Protein Function Prediction (Bioinformatics).ocrpyUnified interface to google vision, aws textract, azure, tesseract and other OCR tools.DokterThe doctor for your Dockerfiles. It will make sure that your Dockerfiles: build secure images, build smaller images, build faster, follow best practices and are pretty formatted.PyXAPyXA is a wrapper around Apple's Scripting Bridge framework that enables AppleScript- and JXA-like control over macOS applications from within Python.chasing_your_tailTool for using wireless signals to see if you're being followed.AlpaAuto parallelization for large-scale neural networks.LNNA `Neural = Symbolic` framework for sound and complete weighted real-value logic.wtfisPassive host and domain name lookup tool for non-robots.Upcoming Events and WebinarsPythonPune Meetup August 2022There will be following talks

• Checkpoint - Create restore points for your project locally

• How an E-Commerce Tech Works

• Deploying python applications to aws nitro enclaves

PyBerlin 34There will be following talks

• Building a Banking System with Python

• Playwright Comes to Python

• Using Deep Language Models with Txtai and DiscoArt

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