March Madness for Python and AI
Crazy AI releases and cool Python tutorials and news from last month
Hi friends,
Welcome to another edition of my monthly newsletter. Let’s dive right in:
❓What can you expect?
This newsletter features tutorials, news, cool repos, and educational nuggets related to Python & AI.
📺📚Tutorials
Here’s a short selection of interesting tutorials from last month that are worth watching:
Python for AI developers: A free course on YouTube from me and my colleague Mısra that helps you to build with AI
GPT-4 Developer Livestream from OpenAI
Generative AI and LLMs - Playlist from James Briggs
Harvard CS50’s Web Programming with Python and JavaScript – Full University Course available on freeCodeCamp’s YouTube channel
🐍 News from the Python Ecosystem
PyTorch 2.0 is officially here. See the announcement.
PyTorch Lightning 2.0 is here. Among other changes, the team is introducing Fabric, a fast and lightweight way to scale PyTorch models with just a few lines of code.
Python 3.12.0 alpha 6 released - In case you missed it, you can already play around with the next Python version.
Pandas 2.0 is almost here! Keep an eye out in the coming days. See the What’s New blog post and watch the releases page.
🤖AI Month
This month was absolutely crazy in the AI space. I summarized the most important releases in this tweet:
I won’t cover all the details in this newsletter, but if you want to follow a newsletter that is focused on AI only, I created a list of 15 great AI newsletters here.
🤝Cool Repos
python-github-action-template: A template that lets you easily schedule a Python script with GitHub Actions
langchain: LangChain is a framework for developing applications powered by language models. It facilitates building applications with LLMs through composability.
💡Python Tip
Use more dataclasses in your Python code. Gets rid of so much boilerplate:
from dataclasses import dataclass
@dataclass
class Student:
age: int
name: str
student = Student(22, "Anna")
print(student)
# Student(age=22, name='Anna')I hope you enjoyed the read!
Patrick