Measuring Bias, Toxicity, and Truthfulness in LLMs With Python

Measuring Bias, Toxicity, and Truthfulness in LLMs With Python

How can you measure the quality of a large language model? What tools can measure bias, toxicity, and truthfulness levels in a model using Python? This week on the show, Jodie Burchell, developer advocate for data science at JetBrains, returns to discuss techniques and tools for evaluating LLMs With Python.

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Supporting Python Open Source Projects and Maintainers

Supporting Python Open Source Projects and Maintainers

How do you define open source software? What are the challenges an open source project and maintainers face? How do maintainers receive financial, legal, security, or other types of help? This week on the show, we have Josh Simmons from Tidelift and the Open Source Initiative to help answer these questions.

13 Elo 20211h

Starting With FastAPI and Examining Python's Import System

Starting With FastAPI and Examining Python's Import System

Have you heard of FastAPI? An application programming interface is vital to make your software accessible to users across the internet. FastAPI is an excellent option for quickly creating a web API that implements best practices. This week on the show, David Amos is back, and he's brought another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects.

6 Elo 202145min

Start Using a Debugger With Your Python Code

Start Using a Debugger With Your Python Code

Are you still sprinkling print statements throughout your code while writing it? Print statements are often clunky and offer only a limited view of the state of your code. Have you thought there must be a better way? This week on the show, we have Nina Zakharenko to discuss her conference talk titled "Goodbye Print, Hello Debugger."

30 Heinä 20211h 5min

What Can You Do With Python and Counting Objects Using "Counter"

What Can You Do With Python and Counting Objects Using "Counter"

How is Python being used today, and what can you do with the language? Do you want to develop software, dive into data science and math, automate parts of your job and digital life, or work with electronics? This week on the show, David Amos is back, and he's brought another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects.

23 Heinä 202156min

Planning a Faster Future at the Python Language Summit

Planning a Faster Future at the Python Language Summit

Do you wonder what the future may hold for the Python language? Are there speed improvements coming soon? What if you could be in the room while the core developers discuss Python's future? This week on the show, we have Joanna Jablonski, who was invited to the Python Language Summit 2021 as a journalist to summarize and document the event.

16 Heinä 202158min

Exploring the functools Module and Complex Numbers in Python

Exploring the functools Module and Complex Numbers in Python

Are you ready to expand your Python knowledge into the intermediate to advanced territory? What tools are awaiting your discovery inside Python's functools module? This week on the show, David Amos is back, and he's brought another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects.

9 Heinä 202155min

Securing Your Python Software Supply Chain With Dustin Ingram

Securing Your Python Software Supply Chain With Dustin Ingram

How well do you know your software supply chain? When you PIP install a package, what steps can you take to minimize the risk of installing something malicious? This week on the show, we have Dustin Ingram, a director of the Python Software Foundation (PSF) and a maintainer of the Python Package Index (PyPI).

2 Heinä 20211h 11min

Practicing Python With CSV Files and Extracting Values With "filter()"

Practicing Python With CSV Files and Extracting Values With "filter()"

Are you ready to practice your Python skills some more? There is a new set of practice problems prepared for you to tackle, and this time they're based on working with CSV files. This week on the show, David Amos is back, and he's brought another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects.

25 Kesä 202155min