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September 25, 2020 Python

Python for NLP: Working with the Gensim Library (Part 1)

This is the 10th article in my series of articles on Python for NLP. In my previous article, I explained how the StanfordCoreNLP library can be used to perform different NLP tasks. In this article, we will explore the Gensim library, which is another extremely useful NLP library for Python. Gensim was primarily developed for topic modeling. However, it now supports a variety of other NLP tasks such as converting words to vectors (word2vec), document to vectors (doc2vec), finding text […]

September 25, 2020 Python

Introduction to Reinforcement Learning with Python

Introduction Reinforcement Learning is definitely one of the most active and stimulating areas of research in AI. The interest in this field grew exponentially over the last couple of years, following great (and greatly publicized) advances, such as DeepMind’s AlphaGo beating the word champion of GO, and OpenAI AI models beating professional DOTA players. Thanks to all of these advances, Reinforcement Learning is now being applied in a variety of different fields, from healthcare to finance, from chemistry to resource […]

September 25, 2020 Python

Working with PDFs in Python: Adding Images and Watermarks

This article is the second in a series on working with PDFs in Python: Introduction Today, a world without the Portable Document Format (PDF) seems to be unthinkable. It has become one of the most commonly used data formats ever. Up to PDF version 1.4, displaying a PDF document in an according PDF viewer works fine. Unfortunately, the features from the newer PDF revisions, such as forms, are tricky to implement, and still require further work to be fully functional […]

September 25, 2020 Python

Python for NLP: Working with the Gensim Library (Part 2)

This is my 11th article in the series of articles on Python for NLP and 2nd article on the Gensim library in this series. In a previous article, I provided a brief introduction to Python’s Gensim library. I explained how we can create dictionaries that map words to their corresponding numeric Ids. We further discussed how to create a bag of words corpus from dictionaries. In this article, we will study how we can perform topic modeling using the Gensim […]

September 25, 2020 Python

Brief Introduction to OpenGL in Python with PyOpenGL

Introduction In this tutorial, we’re going to learn how to use PyOpenGL library in Python. OpenGL is a graphics library which is supported by multiple platforms including Windows, Linux, and MacOS, and is available for use in multiple other languages as well; however, the scope of this post will be limited to its usage in the Python programming language. OpenGL, as compared to other similar graphics libraries, is fairly simple. We’ll start with setting it up on our system, followed […]

September 25, 2020 Python

Overview of Async IO in Python 3.7

Python 3’s asyncio module provides fundamental tools for implementing asynchronous I/O in Python. It was introduced in Python 3.4, and with each subsequent minor release, the module has evolved significantly. This tutorial contains a general overview of the asynchronous paradigm, and how it’s implemented in Python 3.7. Blocking vs Non-Blocking I/O The problem that asynchrony seeks to resolve is blocking I/O. By default, when your program accesses data from an I/O source, it waits for that operation to complete before […]

September 25, 2020 Python

Python: Append Contents to a File

In this article, we’ll examine how to append content to an existing file using Python. Let’s say we have a file called helloworld.txt containing the text “Hello world!” and it is sitting in our current working directory on a Unix file system: $ cat ./helloworld.txt Hello world! Now assume we want to append the additional text “It’s good to have been born!” to the end of this file from a Python program. The first step is to obtain a reference […]

September 25, 2020 Python

Python: Check if String Contains Substring

In this article, we’ll examine four ways to use Python to check whether a string contains a substring. Each has their own use-cases and pros/cons, some of which we’ll briefly cover here: 1) The in Operator The easiest way to check if a Python string contains a substring is to use the in operator. The in operator is used to check data structures for membership in Python. It returns a Boolean (either True or False) and can be used as […]

September 25, 2020 Python

Asynchronous Tasks in Django with Redis and Celery

Introduction In this tutorial I will be providing a general understanding of why celery message queue’s are valuable along with how to utilize celery in conjunction with Redis in a Django application. To demonstrate implementation specifics I will build a minimalistic image processing application that generates thumbnails of images submitted by users. The following topics will be covered: The code for this example can be found on GitHub along with installation and set up instructions if you just want to […]

September 25, 2020 Python

Image Recognition in Python with TensorFlow and Keras

Introduction One of the most common utilizations of TensorFlow and Keras is the recognition/classification of images. If you want to learn how to use Keras to classify or recognize images, this article will teach you how. Definitions If you aren’t clear on the basic concepts behind image recognition, it will be difficult to completely understand the rest of this article. So before we proceed any further, let’s take a moment to define some terms. TensorFlow/Keras Credit: commons.wikimedia.org TensorFlow is an […]

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