Create a Desktop Application with Python | David Mays
3 More Python Functools Tips, 6 python libraries to make beautiful maps, sqlite-vss: A SQLite Extension for Vector Search with some more interesting articles, packages and projects
Create a Desktop Application with Python
You want to learn desktop applications in Python. It's always good to start with a notes app. If that's what you are looking for then you should check this article by David Mays.
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3 More Python Functools Tips
Many times I mentioned in the newsletter about the cool functionalities that Python has by default. Every time I find something like those default functionalities which I never came across, it amazes me and increases my love towards Python. This article by Sarper Makas also comes into this category. He covered 3 interesting tips for functions - Partial or Predefined Functions, Singledispatch | Generics & Total Ordering.
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6 python libraries to make beautiful maps
At some point, a Data Scientist needs to analyze or model geospatial data and can’t be done without the crucial visual part. Aleksei Rozanov covered 6 amazing Python libraries to make beautiful maps in this article with examples with the code.
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How to run pytest in parallel on GitHub actions
With time we will have a lot of test cases for our application. Especially integration tests take a lot of time to run. If that hinders PRs, the CI/CD pipeline is not a good place to be. Guilherme Latrova dealt with this and shared how he managed in this article.
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Introducing sqlite-vss: A SQLite Extension for Vector Search
Vector search is kind of becoming a must for most AI Applications. If we want to build web applications for experimental usage then we always turn towards SQLite but that’s not the case for Vector search databases don’t worry time has changed. Now we have sqlite-vss which is a new SQLite extension that adds vector search capabilities to SQLite, based on Faiss. Read this article by Alex Garcia for more understanding and how to use it.
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Interesting Packages and Projects to explore
transformers - State-of-the-art Machine Learning for Pytorch, TensorFlow, and JAX.
mwmbl - An open-source, non-profit search engine implemented in python
PyPika - A SQL query builder API for Python
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