Maximizing Python Code Efficiency: Strategies to Overcome Common Performance Hurdles

This article talks about performance issues caused by nested loops and memory allocation issues. It provides strategies to overcome these issues while improving efficiency.

https://towardsdatascience.com/maximizing-python-code-efficiency-strategies-to-overcome-common-performance-hurdles-c6292610d785

kotaemon

An open-source RAG-based tool for chatting with your documents.

https://github.com/Cinnamon/kotaemon

Taming the beast that is the Django ORM - An introduction

The Django ORM, how it compares to raw SQL and gotchas that you should be aware of when using it

https://www.davidhang.com/blog/2024-09-01-taming-the-django-orm/

Building LLMs from the Ground Up

This tutorial guides coders through the fundamentals of large language models (LLMs), explaining how they work and how to build them from scratch in PyTorch. It covers coding a small GPT-like model, its data pipeline, architecture, pretraining, and fine-tuning using open-source libraries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quh7z1q7-uc

supertree

supertree is a Python package designed to visualize decision trees in an interactive and user-friendly way within Jupyter Notebooks, Jupyter Lab, Google Colab, and any other notebooks that support HTML rendering.

https://github.com/mljar/supertree

uvtrick

A fun party trick to run Python code from another venv into this one.

https://github.com/koaning/uvtrick

Multimodal Data Analysis with LLMs and Python – Tutorial

The tutorial teaches how to analyze multimodal data using Large Language Models (LLMs) and Python, covering text classification, image-based question answering, audio transcription, and creating a natural language query interface for SQL databases.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-4qAkFRpAk

Classifying all of the pdfs on the internet

The article describes an attempt to classify a massive dataset of 8.4 million PDFs from Common Crawl using various machine learning techniques. The author experiments with different approaches, including deep learning models and traditional machine learning methods like XGBoost, ultimately achieving the best performance with an XGBoost model trained on embeddings, reaching 85.26% accurac...

https://snats.xyz/pages/articles/classifying_a_bunch_of_pdfs.html

Mini-Omni

Mini-Omni is an open-source multimodel large language model that can hear, talk while thinking. Featuring real-time end-to-end speech input and streaming audio output conversational capabilities.

https://github.com/gpt-omni/mini-omni

How to Create a Pre-Commit Hook

A step-by-step guide to developing your own pre-commit hook.

https://stefaniemolin.com/articles/devx/pre-commit/hook-creation-guide/

pipefunc

Lightweight function pipeline (DAG) creation in pure Python for scientific workflows.

https://github.com/pipefunc/pipefunc

smartcut

Cut video files with minimal recoding.

https://github.com/skeskinen/smartcut

Using GPT-4o for web scraping

The article discusses using GPT-4 with OpenAI's structured outputs feature to create an AI-assisted web scraper, exploring its capabilities in parsing complex tables and generating XPaths. While the author found GPT-4 effective at extracting data from various HTML tables, they also noted challenges with merged rows, high API costs, and the need for further refinements to improve accuracy...

https://blancas.io/blog/ai-web-scraper/

Integrating Stripe Into A One-Product Django Python Shop

In the first part of this series, we created a Django online shop with htmx. In this second part, we'll handle orders using Stripe.

https://blog.appsignal.com/2024/09/04/integrating-stripe-into-a-one-product-django-python-shop.html

My Favorite Error Handling Technique

This video presents a surprising “Let it burn” approach to error handling, demonstrating how allowing code to fail fast can result in simpler, clearer, and more robust software. Discover the benefits of this method and its impact on improving overall code quality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA0Wq1rcs6U