How Python Compares Floats and Ints: When Equals Isn’t Really Equal

Another Python gotcha and an investigation into its internals to understand why this happens.

https://blog.codingconfessions.com/p/how-python-compares-floats-and-ints

Gloe

Gloe is a general-purpose library made to help developers create, maintain, document, and test both operational and flow-oriented code.

https://github.com/ideos/gloe

How good is GPT-4o at generating Flask apps? Surprisingly promising

This article summarizes the findings when asking GPT-4o to generate Flask applications, ranging from a simple "Hello, World!" app to a full-fledged CRUD app with three database models and HTML pages with Tailwind. With careful prompting, GPT-4o can produce working Flask applications and follow (some) best coding practices.

https://ploomber.io/blog/gpt-4o-flask/

Koheesio

Python framework for building efficient data pipelines. It promotes modularity and collaboration, enabling the creation of complex pipelines from simple, reusable components.

https://github.com/Nike-Inc/koheesio

Terminal Text Effects

Visual effects applied to text in the terminal.

https://github.com/ChrisBuilds/terminaltexteffects

Pandora

Towards General World Model with Natural Language Actions and Video States.

https://github.com/maitrix-org/Pandora

Blealtan / efficient-kan

An efficient pure-PyTorch implementation of Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (KAN).

https://github.com/Blealtan/efficient-kan

google-deepmind / alphafold

Open source code for AlphaFold.

https://github.com/google-deepmind/alphafold

mistral-finetune

mistral-finetune is a light-weight codebase that enables memory-efficient and performant finetuning of Mistral's models.

https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-finetune

Fire Up Your Logging Needs with Pydantic Logfire

The pydantic team recently introduced logfire, a new logging tool that makes it easy to track and analyze your logs. Simply integrate logfire into your projects with just a few lines of code.

https://kadermiyanyedi.medium.com/fire-up-your-logging-needs-with-logfire-6330d7a08dfe

DataFrames at Scale Comparison: TPC-H

We run benchmarks derived from the TPC-H benchmark suite on a variety of scales, hardware architectures, and dataframe projects, notably Apache Spark, Dask, DuckDB, and Polars. No project wins. This post analyzes results within each project and between projects.

https://docs.coiled.io/blog/tpch.html

How AI Can Help Deaf People Hear

This project facilitates communication between Deaf individuals and hearing individuals who do not understand American Sign Language (ASL). It is designed to respect and preserve ASL as the primary language.

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

Rapidly creating smoke tests for Django views

A management command for quickly generating tests based off Django's URL routing mechanism.

https://daniel.feldroy.com/posts/2024-05-rapidly-creating-smoke-tests-for-django-views

Don't worry about LLMs

The post argues that while large language models (LLMs) are receiving a lot of hype, the engineering systems built around them are similar to previous machine learning systems. It advises practitioners to cut through the hype and treat LLMs as regular engineering and ML problems.

https://vickiboykis.com/2024/05/20/dont-worry-about-llms/

Elia

A snappy, keyboard-centric terminal user interface for interacting with large language models. Chat with ChatGPT, Claude, Llama 3, Phi 3, Mistral, Gemma and more.

https://github.com/darrenburns/elia