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
This article delves into the diverse methods of extracting values from Python’s Enum class. The Enum class in Python offers a platform to define named constants, known as enumerations. These enumerations can be accessed through various techniques: This article underscores the adaptability and multifaceted nature of the Enum class in Python, illustrating the myriad ways … Read more
🦙 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 language models (aka. Alien Technology) to 10x your coding productivity, you’ve come to the right place. Let’s get started with the concept first. … Read more
To download a Zoom video in Python, first install the requests library using pip install requests. Then, use the requests.get() method to fetch the video content from the Zoom URL and save it to a file with .mp4 extension. Ensure you have the necessary permissions and note that some videos may require authentication or additional … Read more
To get historical weather data in Python, install the Meteostat library using pip install meteostat or run !pip install meteostat with the exclamation mark prefix ! in a Jupyter Notebook. If you haven’t already, also install the Matplotlib library using pip install matplotlib. Then, copy the following code into your programming environment and change the … Read more
Python’s async and await are powerful features that enable you to write asynchronous code to improve the performance of your applications, particularly when dealing with I/O-bound and high-level structured network code. Async and await are used with coroutines, which are special functions that can pause and resume their execution at specific points. This allows multiple … Read more