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The NLP Cypher | 12.26.21

Merry Christmas 🎄 for those celebrating. And Happy New Year! Even OpenAI is feeling the holiday spirit: they open sourced their photorealistic GLIDE model several days ago. Includes three notebooks: The text2im notebook shows how to use GLIDE (filtered) with classifier-free guidance to produce images conditioned on text prompts. The inpaint notebook shows how to use GLIDE (filtered) to fill in a masked region of an image, conditioned on a text prompt. The clip_guided notebook shows how to use GLIDE […]

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Python Zip Imports: Distribute Modules and Packages Quickly

Python allows you to import code from ZIP files directly through Zip imports. This interesting built-in feature enables you to zip Python code for distribution purposes. Zip imports also help if you often work with Python code that comes in ZIP files. In either case, learning to create importable ZIP files and to import code from them will be a valuable skill. Even if your day-to-day workflow doesn’t involve ZIP files containing Python code, you’ll still learn some fun and […]

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Raising and Handling Python Exceptions

A Python program terminates as soon as it encounters an error. In Python, an error can be a syntax error or an exception. In this course, you’ll learn what an exception is and how it differs from a syntax error. After that, you’ll learn about raising exceptions and making assertions. Then, you’ll learn how to catch exceptions to prevent your program from unintentionally ending and to change the control flow of your program: You’ll learn about the basic use of […]

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Dependency Management With Python Poetry

When your Python project relies on external packages, you need to make sure you’re using the right version of each package. After an update, a package might not work as it did before the update. A dependency manager like Python Poetry helps you specify, install, and resolve external packages in your projects. This way, you can be sure that you always work with the right dependency version on every machine. Using Poetry will help you start new projects, maintain existing […]

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It’s time to stop using Python 3.6

Upgrading to new software versions is work, and work that doesn’t benefit your software’s users. Users care about features and bug fixes, not how up-to-date you are. But there is only so much time you can delay upgrading, and for Python 3.6, the time to upgrade is right now. Python 3.6 is reaching its end of life as of December 2021. No more bug fixes. No more security fixes. “It’s dead, Jim.” As of mid-December 2021, 15% of packages downloaded […]

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Host Your Django Project on Heroku

As a novice web developer, you’ve built your portfolio app and shared your code on GitHub. Perhaps, you’re hoping to attract technical recruiters to land your first programming job. Many coding bootcamp graduates are likely doing the same thing. To differentiate yourself from the crowd and boost your chances of getting noticed, you can start hosting your Django project online. For a hobby Django project, you’ll want a hosting service that’s free of charge, quick to set up, user-friendly, and […]

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Natural Language Processing, NLP, Python

The NLP Cypher | 12.12.21

Here’s a collection of papers by your favorite big tech and educational institutions. “The Generalist Language Model (GLaM), a trillion weight model that can be trained and served efficiently (in terms of computation and energy use) thanks to sparsity, and achieves competitive performance on multiple few-shot learning tasks. GLaM’s performance compares favorably to a dense language model, GPT-3 (175B) with significantly improved learning efficiency across 29 public NLP benchmarks in seven categories, spanning language completion, open-domain question answering, and natural […]

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Java vs Python: Basic Python for Java Developers

Python is a general-purpose programming language. You can understand its growth in the last couple of years by considering its approachability for learning and its high suitability for data analysis, machine learning, and web development. But what kind of programming language is it? What are some differences when you compare Java vs Python? What can you do with it? And is it really as “easy to learn” as some people claim? You’ll explore Python from a Java perspective in this […]

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Creating a better flamegraph visualization

How do you visualize performance data so you can easily spot bottlenecks? Brendan Gregg’s flamegraphs are a great solution, adopted by a large number of profilers and performance tools. However, even great solutions can be improved. With a few small tweaks, you can make flamegraphs much easier to read. To see what I mean, I’ll start with a default flamegraph, and then make it better step by step. Most of the improvements can be achieved by using the right tool […]

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Binary, Bytes, and Bitwise Operators in Python

Computers store all kinds of information as a stream of binary digits called bits. Whether you’re working with text, images, or videos, they all boil down to ones and zeros. Python’s bitwise operators let you manipulate those individual bits of data at the most granular level. Python isolates you from the underlying bits with high-level abstractions. You’re more likely to find the overloaded flavors of bitwise operators in practice. But when you work with them in their original form, you’ll […]

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