#477: Awesome Text Tricks with NLP and spaCy

The past few years have seen an explosion of IoT devices. Many of these are for the so-called smart home. Their true potential lies in the ability to coordinate and automate them as a group.

26 Jul 201758min

Do you have big, monolith web applications or services that are hard to manage, hard to change, and hard to scale? Maybe breaking them into microservices would give you many more options to evolve and grow that app.

19 Jul 20171h 5min

This week we'll enter the world of stock markets, trades, hedge funds and more. You'll meet Yves Hilpisch who runs The Python Quants where Python, open- source, education, and finance intersect.

12 Jul 20171h 7min

Think about how you learn most technical or detail-oriented subjects?

6 Jul 201752min

Let's consider the progression we've been on over the past 15 or so years.

27 Jun 201754min

One of the nice things about the Python language is it's at least 3 programming paradigms in one: There's the procedural style, object-oriented style, and functional style. This week you'll meet Evan Hubinger who is taking Python's functional programming style and turning it to 11. We're talking about Coconut. A full functional programming language that is a proper superset of Python itself.

21 Jun 20171h 3min

Whether you got to attend PyCon, there were just too many good talks to attend them all. Luckily our friends at the PSF were on top of publishing the videos online for the whole world to watch for free. On this episode, we'll meet up with Brett Slatkin and replay his path through PyCon. We touch on his top 10 sessions from PyCon 2017.

12 Jun 20171h

When you think of popular Python packages, what comes to mind? There's a good chance that this week's guest, Kenneth Reitz, wrote that package you just thought of. He's the author of so of Python's most popular libraries, including Requests, Records, Maya, and pipenv just to name a few.

8 Jun 201753min