PyCon US 2024 Recap, How LLMs Work, Explained Without Math and more

Functional Programming in Data Engineering, A first attempt at DSPy Agents from scratch with some more interesting articles, packages and projects

Jun 08, 2024

Trojan Embedded in crytic-compilers Python Package Targets Popular Blockchain Utility

Be careful with the package names when you use or else typosquatting attacks can bite you. One of the typosquatting attacks discovered by the Socket Dev Team it's for the popular crytic-compile utility package. Attackers named it with a small name change crytic-compilers.

PyCon US 2024 Recap by Katherine Michel

PyCon US is amazing; many love attending at least once. If you didn’t see this year then see it from Katherine Michel’s eyes.

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Articles

Asyncio Run Multiple Concurrent Event Loops

Until I read this article by Jason Brownlee, I didn't know that We can run multiple concurrent asyncio event loops by starting and running each new event loop in a separate thread. If you are like me then you should read this article. It's an interesting concept and it is useful if you want to use machine resources fully or want to do things in isolation.

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Functional Programming in Data Engineering with Python — Part 1

Some people talk about functional programming and they throw words like Monoids, currying, etc. If you don’t have an idea about them and want to get an idea then you should check this article by Stephen David-Williams. He covered many concepts with amazing examples. He wrote a 2 part series, the next one you will find here.

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A first attempt at DSPy Agents from scratch

Now the agent concept is at the centre of the AI/LLM world. If you want to know how we can build them then you should check this article. Bill Chambers explained with simple examples and showed how we can do it using the DSPy framework.

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How LLMs Work, Explained Without Math

If you want to understand LLMs but don’t want to get into the complicated math part then you should check this article. Miguel Grinberg explained how models understand the words, what are tokens & Markov Chains.

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Master Django Caching: Boost Your Website Speed with Memcached Techniques

Ewho Ruth explained the caching concept using the restaurant analogy in this article and covered many things with examples & code using Django & memcached.

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Simple Pretty Maps That Will Better Your Python Streamlit Skills

Streamlit is a go-to option for many data scientists. Knowledge of this framework is becoming a highly desirable skill. In this article, John Loewen explained how we can create interactive & beautiful maps using the prettymapp & Streamlit library.

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Mastering Python: 7 Strategies for Writing Clear, Organized, and Efficient Code

Writing clear & organized code is always better than writing complex code. Kanwal Mehreen covered 7 strategies to write code better. 2nd point/strategy is tough to do everywhere but I feel everyone should imbibe rest.