#301: PyTorch Grows Up and Moves Out

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Michael #1: PythonAnywhere: Our Commitment to Providing Free Accounts

• via Matthew Kramer
• In light of Heroku’s cancelling their free tiers…
• They believe free tiers are important for beginners
• Two part solution:
  • Limit outbound internet access for free accounts
  • “Proof of life” to keep running - 3 months for apps, 1 yr for accounts
• BTW, they were acquired by Anaconda Inc.

Brian #2: ruff: An extremely fast Python linter, written in Rust.

• Announcement article: Python tooling could be much, much faster
• Charlie Marsh
• Quite the star history, as it’s a new repo as of Aug 30. Now at 1.8k.
• It is extremely fast.
• I installed it and tried it on a small project.
• It ran so fast I thought it didn’t do anything. I went and added some errors to convince myself it was running.

  $ time flake8 src tests     
      ...
      flake8 src tests  0.29s user 0.02s system 98% cpu 0.311 total
  
      $ time ruff src/ tests/   
      ...  
      ruff src/ tests/  0.01s user 0.01s system 162% cpu 0.011 total
  

Michael #3: Meta spins off PyTorch Foundation to make AI framework vendor neutral

• PyTorch, which powers Tesla Autopilot and 150K other projects, will join the Linux Foundation.
• Its governing board includes representatives from Nvidia, Meta, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and AMD.
• The PyTorch Foundation will strive to adhere to four principles,
  • Remaining open
  • Maintaining neutral branding
  • Staying fair
  • Forging a strong technical identity
• According to Meta, the transition to the PyTorch Foundation will not affect any existing PyTorch code

Brian #4: Two string resources

• Python String Methods to Know
  • Trey Hunner
• F-Strings Number Formatting Cheat Sheet
  • Brian Allan

Extras

Brian:

• In Feb, on episode 271, we talked about Seaborn’s new object interface
  • Well, it’s out now in seaborn 0.12
• Interesting discussion about lazy imports.
• Other than that, I’m good with your extra. 🙂

Michael:

• pytest course is out!

Joke: If a developer had to build a horse…