Python Weekly No 212

Articles, Tutorials and Talks

Probability, Paradox, and the Reasonable Person Principle
In this notebook, Peter Norvig covers the basics of probability theory, and show how to implement the theory in Python.  Then he shows how to solve some particularly perplexing paradoxical probability problems.

Episode #28: Making Python Fast: Profiling Python Code
Is that Python code of yours running a little slow? Are you thinking of rewriting the algorithm or maybe even in another language? Well, before you do, you'll want to listen to what Davis Silverman has to say about speeding up Python code using Profiling. 

Podcast.__init__ Episode 25 - uWSGI Core Developers
uWSGI is one of the most versatile application servers available. It was originally written for running Python applications and has since gained functionality to support Perl, Ruby, PHP, and more in addition to the incredible feature set. In this episode Tobias got to interview three of the core developers of this project and find out more about how the different pieces of it fit together and what its future holds.

Learn how to use RethinkDB with Jupyter
This talk demonstrates how to perform ReQL queries in a Jupyter notebook, integrating with matplotlib and other libraries to generate data visualizations.

A Primer on Neural Network Models for Natural Language Processing
Over the past few years, neural networks have re-emerged as powerful machine-learning models, yielding state-of-the-art results in fields such as image recognition and speech processing. More recently, neural network models started to be applied also to textual natural language signals, again with very promising results. This tutorial surveys neural network models from the perspective of natural language processing research, in an attempt to bring natural-language researchers up to speed with the neural techniques. The tutorial covers input encoding for natural language tasks, feed-forward networks, convolutional networks, recurrent networks and recursive networks, as well as the computation graph abstraction for automatic gradient computation.

Getting started with Pandas
This post covers some introductory tips and tricks to help one get started with Pandas.

What Python Tools should I be using on every python project?
A good discussion on Reddit.

LinkedIn Social Authentication in Django
In this tutorial, we'll demonstrate in detail how to integrate Python Social Auth library into your Django Project to provide user authentication through LinkedIn using OAuth 2.0.

PyPy memory and warmup improvements (2) - Sharing of Guards


Books

Mastering Flask

If you are a Flask user who knows the basics of the library and how to create basic web pages with HTML and CSS, and you want to take your applications to the next level, this is the book for you. Harnessing the full power of Flask will allow you to create complex web applications with ease.

Numerical Python: A Practical Techniques Approach for Industry 

Numerical Python by Robert Johansson shows you how to leverage the numerical and mathematical capabilities in Python, its standard library, and the extensive ecosystem of computationally oriented Python libraries, including popular packages such as NumPy, SciPy, SymPy, Matplotlib, Pandas, and more, and how to apply these software tools in computational problem solving.


Python Jobs of the Week

Full Stack Developer at Mailgun
Mailgun is hiring a full stack developer to work on our control panel team. As a member of this team, you will be responsible for helping build a great customer experience for each and every customer who uses our product. 


Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

Weeman

HTTP Server for phishing in Python.

pythonize
Download, install, and configure Python in one line.

intro2stats
Introduction to Statistics using Python.

safe-commit-hook
pre-commit hook for Git that checks for suspicious files. 

jupyter-themer
Apply custom CSS styling to your jupyter notebooks.

DiffPy 
A free and open source software project to provide python software for diffraction analysis and the study of the atomic structure of materials.

Invatar
Invatar provides an "API" for generating fully customizable SVG and image avatars with small text. Inspired from many messaging apps.

receipt-parser
A fuzzy (supermarket) receipt parser written in Python using tesseract.

bqplot
Plotting library for IPython/Jupyter Notebooks.

Pew
A tool to manage multiple virtual environments written in pure python

rc-data
A script to generate question/answer pairs using CNN and Daily Mail articles downloaded from the Wayback Machine.


New Releases

Django Bugfix release issued: 1.8.5

Numpy 1.10.0

PyDev 4.4.0