As a Python developer, you might be familiar with lambda functions, which provide a simple and concise way to create anonymous functions. However, when it comes to asynchronous programming, you may wonder if it is possible to use async and await within lambda functions to create “async lambdas.” Currently, Python does not natively support async … Read more
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If you’re like me, you’re using OpenAI API a lot in your Python code. So the natural question arises: “How to use OpenAI’s API asynchronously by issuing multiple requests at once?” I will give you my code for asynchronous OpenAI API requests for copy and paste below. But first, allow me to give you a … Read more
The following answer is based on my experience as a doctoral researcher in distributed systems. Computer science is a big field with vast differences in the quality and quantity requirements of your Ph.D. supervisor. Having said this, you’ll probably need somewhere between two to five publications to get a Ph.D. in computer science. I have … Read more
Asyncio Overview Asyncio is a Python library that allows you to write asynchronous code, providing an event loop, coroutines, and tasks to help manage concurrency without the need for parallelism.With asyncio, you can develop high-performance applications that harness the power of asynchronous programming, without running into callback hell or dealing with the complexity of threads. … Read more
I just got an early copy of Prof. Porter’s and Prof. Zingaro’s “Learn AI-Assisted Python Programming with GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT”. In this quick blog, I’ll share my 5-star review: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Programming in 2023 looks a lot different than programming in 2022. The transformational development of powerful large language models (LLMs) has brought new challenges … Read more
Billionaire investor Charlie Munger is famously quoted as saying, “The first $100,000 is a bitch, but you gotta do it. I don’t care what you have to do – if it means walking and not eating anything that wasn’t purchased with a coupon, find a way to get your hands on $100,000”. For most people, … Read more
As a Python developer, you may often deal with making HTTP requests to interact with APIs or to retrieve information from web pages. By default, these requests can be slow and block your program’s execution, making your code less efficient. This is where Python’s async requests come to the rescue. Asynchronous HTTP requests allow your … Read more
The LlamaIndex Python library is a mind-blowing 🤯 tool that lets you easily access large language models (LLMs) from your Python applications. Overview 🦙 LlamaIndex is a powerful tool to implement the “Retrieval Augmented Generation” (RAG) concept in practical Python code. If you want to become an exponential Python developer who wants to leverage large … Read more
Both Python and Go are extremely relevant today. Both languages are widely used. Golang fans argue that people flock from Python to the newer and faster language Golang, also known as Go. Is this true? Not really. See this search volume comparison from Google Trends: 👇 Go is a much newer language than Python, released … Read more
In Python, the async for construct allows you to iterate over asynchronous iterators, which yield values from asynchronous operations. You’ll use it when working with asynchronous libraries or frameworks where data fetching or processing happens asynchronously, such as reading from databases or making HTTP requests. The async for loop ensures that while waiting for data, … Read more
Install LlamaIndex with PIP Note that we assume you’re using OpenAI API. If you don’t want to use OpenAI, LlamaIndex automatically uses Meta’s Llama model. However, this would require roughly 12GB of your memory across GPU and CPU (at the time of writing) and run the Llama LLM models locally. 🧑💻 Tip: I recommend you … Read more