Python Weekly (Issue 590 March 2 2023)

Python Weekly - Issue 590

March 02, 2023

Python Weekly

Welcome to issue 590 of Python Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

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Articles, Tutorials and Talks

In this machine learning course, you will learn how to build AlphaZero from scratch. AlphaZero is a game-playing algorithm that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to learn how to play board games at a superhuman level. 

Here you will see the advanced techniques to handle apps with complex patterns that are deeply integrated with Flask's internals. And also additional tips and tricks to do the actual migration work, how to guide yourself in the code base, etc.

If you upgrade to Django 4.2, you may see system check warnings fields.W906. In this post we’ll cover why this has changed, and how to perform the necessary migration. You can actually migrate from Django 3.2, and may want to, because the alternative uses more accurate and flexible Unicode rules.

Exploring multi-quantile regression with Catboost.

Here’s the story of a success story that only required a few hours of work.

A Swiss army knife of the array operations.

In this tutorial, we will extract data from Linkedin, and since it does not provide any open API for us to access this data then are only choice is to scrape it. We are going to use Python 3.x.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

Inference code for LLaMA models.

Python helper tool for building and running a repl with custom commands.

Open source customer notifications in less than 5 minutes.

A fast static code analyzer & language server for Python.

Declarative layer for your database.

A gradio web UI for running Large Language Models like GPT-J 6B, OPT, GALACTICA, GPT-Neo, and Pygmalion.

New ways of breaking app-integrated LLMs.

Upcoming Events and Webinars

There will be following talks

  • Uses of large language model chatbots (i.e. ChatGPT) for Python programmers

  • Review: "The Art of Clean Code" by Christian Mayer"

We'll be getting together to learn and practice creating music using python and python libraries designed for the task.

Join us in March when Tanim Islam returns to demonstrate the work he's done creating a workflow to create and send technical emails from Restructured Text documents.

There will be a talk, How to leverage modern labeling techniques to overcome the cold start problem.

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