How to Get Normally Distributed Random Numbers With NumPy
Probability distributions describe the likelihood of all possible outcomes of an event or experiment. The normal distribution is one of the most useful probability distributions because it models many natural phenomena very well. With NumPy, you can create random number samples from the normal distribution. This distribution is also called the Gaussian distribution or simply the bell curve. The latter hints at the shape of the distribution when you plot it:
Read morePython Basics: Installing Packages With pip
So far on the Python Basics learning path, you’ve been working within the bounds of the Python standard library. Now it’s time to unlock packages that aren’t included with Python by default. To do that, you’ll need pip. Many programming languages offer a package manager that automates the process of installing, upgrading, and removing third-party packages. Python is no exception. The de facto package manager for Python is called pip. In this video course, you’ll learn how to: Install and […]
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Python’s pathlib Module: Taming the File System
Watch Now This tutorial has a related video course created by the Real Python team. Watch it together with the written tutorial to deepen your understanding: Using Python’s pathlib Module Working with files and interacting with the file system are common tasks for Python developers. Some cases may involve only reading or writing files, but sometimes more complex tasks are at hand. Maybe you need to list all files of a given type in a directory, find the parent directory […]
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Few words on Natural Language Processing and User Autonomy
As natural language processing (NLP) finds its way from university labs and becomes a crucial element of many user-facing technologies (machine translation, search, language-model-based assistants), people start to get concerned about the ethics of this technology. When people talk about NLP ethics, the main topics are: biases that the models get from training data, replication of toxic behavior found on the Internet, underrepresentation of already underprivileged groups, differences between the technology availability between the global north and global south. Now, […]
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