Interview with Guido van Rossum
Talkpython interview with Guido van Rossum aka BDFL.
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Critical View of few Python 3 Choices / evolution
The people who introduced me to Python chose it because of the elegance of the language, and it's aesthetic qualities. Would they choose it again, I wonder? Would I?.
core-python
Designing Modules in Python - ebook
This book is for people with some experience in an object oriented programming language. This book will help you get better at module/class level design. Hopefully, it will teach you to identify good design from bad.
book
Python Videos for Engineers and Scientists
Python material in data science, analysis, and modeling, and optimization. Here is the youtube video channel of the site https://www.youtube.com/user/APMonitorCom
video
Using Uber's Pyflame and Logs to Tackle Scaling Issues
This time, it was different though. My distributed web crawler seemed to be slowing down over time. Adding more nodes only had a temporary performance boost; the overall crawling speed gradually declined afterwards. So simply put, it couldn't scale. But why?. In this post, you'll find out what techniques and tools I used to diagnose scaling issues - and to an extent, more general performance issues - in my Python-based web crawler.
debugging
A Simple Guide for Python Packaging
Code reuse is a very common need. It saves you time for writing the same code multiple times, enables leveraging other smart people’s work to make new things happen. Even just for one project, it helps organize code in a modular way so you can maintain each part separately. When it comes to python, it means format your project so it can be easily packaged. This is a simple instruction on how to go from nothing to a package that you can proudly put it in your portfolio to be used by other people.
packaging
Closures bind late
closures
Emacs as a Python IDE
Note - The video is old, but worth watching for emacs users.
emacs
A python solution for lung cancer detection with deep learning
deep learning
Using Python to find corrupted images
image processing
5 Python libraries to lighten your machine learning load
PyWren, Tfdeploy, Luigi, Kubelib, PyTorch. Note - We used luigi at my previous workplace and it's a solid library to custom pipelines for batch processing. In our case it was used to enforce database migrations.
machine learning
Is Type Tracing useful for Python
Type Tracing - as a program runs you trace it and record the types of variables coming in and out of functions, and being assigned to variables.
debugging
Data mining with Python on scanned documents:
I've written a Python package called pdftabextract https://github.com/WZBSocialScienceCenter/pdftabextract that contains several helpful functions for that task and I'm explaining how to use them in that blog post.
data mining
Junior Data Scientist at iDatalabs
Pune, Maharashtra, India
iDatalabs (https://idatalabs.com/) is hiring for a junior data scientist (with 0.5-2 years of work experience).
Projects
tkui - 166 Stars, 11 Fork
A visual introspective GUI maker with live editing of the GUI and its editor at the same time
tweetfeels - 18 Stars, 1 Fork
Real-time sentiment analysis in Python using twitter's streaming api
WallpapersFromReddit - 13 Stars, 3 Fork
Download all the hot images from reddit.com/r/wallpaper subreddit every 24 hours to a local device and set an image from those local files as a wallpaper, which updates automatically every 30 minutes!
lda2vec-tf - 12 Stars, 1 Fork
Tensorflow port of the lda2vec model for unsupervised learning of document + topic + word embeddings.
ieighteen - 10 Stars, 1 Fork
Speed up your Localization/Internationalization efforts by automating translation with single script
fish-hook - 8 Stars, 1 Fork
A console tool which manages your github webhooks efficiently.
ipyaml - 8 Stars, 1 Fork
IPython notebooks with YAML file format
Scrapstagram - 3 Stars, 0 Fork
An Instagram Scrapper
kimo - 3 Stars, 0 Fork
Find OS processes of mysql queries