GPT Store Faces Delay in Launch Amidst Turmoil

OpenAI, the artificial intelligence powerhouse, has informed eager users that the launch of its GPT store is facing a delay until next year. The company conveyed this update via an email sent to individuals who had signed up for its GPT Builder. In the email, OpenAI cited unforeseen challenges that have kept the team occupied, leading to the postponement of the GPT store’s rollout. Originally slated for a December release, this timeframe was already slightly later than initially promised. At […]

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Serialize Your Data With Python

Whether you’re a data scientist crunching big data in a distributed cluster, a back-end engineer building scalable microservices, or a front-end developer consuming web APIs, you should understand data serialization. In this comprehensive guide, you’ll move beyond XML and JSON to explore several data formats that you can use to serialize data in Python. You’ll explore them based on their use cases, learning about their distinct categories. By the end of this tutorial, you’ll have a deep understanding of the […]

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Tackling sign language data inequity

Access to information is considered a human right by many global organizations and governments. But even though at least 71 countries mandate the provision of services in sign language, most information resources (like search engines or news sites) are presented in written language only. Sign languages are the primary means of communication for about 70 million d/Deaf people worldwide, and are also used by hearing family members, friends, and colleagues. While over 300 sign  

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OpenAI CEO Reinstated Amidst Controversy over AI Chip Deal

Rain AI, located in close proximity to OpenAI’s San Francisco headquarters, specializes in developing NPUs designed to replicate features of the human brain. The nonbinding agreement between OpenAI and Rain AI, dating back to 2019, recently came to light through investor documents and a copy of the deal obtained by WIRED. Altman’s personal investment of over $1 million in Rain AI further complicates the situation. This revelation sheds light on the intricate web of personal investments Altman maintains, potentially influencing […]

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Using Polars in a Pandas world

Polars is a dataframe-based library that can be faster, more memory efficient, and often simpler to use than Pandas. It’s also much newer, and correspondingly less popular. In November 2023: Polars had ~2.6 million downloads from PyPI. Pandas had ~140 million downloads! Because of Pandas’ popularity and decade and a half of availability, there are many third-party libraries with built-in support for Pandas, and others that specifically extend Pandas. Many plotting and visualization libraries will accept Pandas dataframes as an […]

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What is LangChain | Introduction to LangChain for Beginners with Examples

Introduction Ever since OpenAI released ChatGPT last year, the buzz around LLMs (Large Language Models) has grown exponentially, with many new LLMs getting released every other day. As if so many LLMs are not confusing enough for people, there is another growing buzz in the community around an LLM framework called LangChain. In this article,  we will understand what is LangChain, why is it needed, and how it works. We will also show some examples, but will not deep dive […]

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Single and Double Underscores in Python Names

Python has a few important naming conventions that are based on using either a single or double underscore character (_). These conventions allow you to differentiate between public and non-public names in APIs, write safe classes for subclassing purposes, avoid name clashes, and more. Following and respecting these conventions allows you to write code that looks Pythonic and consistent in the eyes of other Python developers. This skill is especially useful when you’re writing code that’s intended for other developers […]

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The Power of Prompting

Today, we published an exploration of the power of prompting strategies that demonstrates how the generalist GPT-4 model can perform as a specialist on medical challenge problem benchmarks. The study shows GPT-4’s ability to outperform a leading model that was fine-tuned specifically for medical applications, on the same benchmarks and by a significant margin. These results are among other recent studies that show how prompting strategies  

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Advent of Code: Solving Puzzles With Python

Advent of Code is an online Advent calendar where you’ll find new programming puzzles offered each day from December 1 to 25. While you can solve the puzzles at any time, the excitement when new puzzles unlock is really something special. You can participate in Advent of Code in any programming language—including Python! With the help of this Code Conversation, you’ll be ready to start solving puzzles and earning your first gold stars. In this video course, you’ll learn: What […]

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