When should you upgrade to Python 3.11?

Python 3.11 is out now–but should you switch to it immediately? And if you shouldn’t upgrade just yet, when should you? The short answer is that, no, you probably don’t want to switch immediately; quite possibly you can’t switch immediately. To understand why, we need to consider Python packaging, the software development process, and take a look at the history of past releases. We can then make a guess about when Python 3.11 will actually be usable. The problems with […]

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Enterprise conversational chatbot with RASA Open-source Framework — part: 1

a chatbot is a computer program that simulates and processes human conversation (either written or spoken), allowing humans to interact with digital devices as if they were communicating with a real person. Chatbots can be as simple as rudimentary programs that answer a simple query with a single-line response, or as sophisticated as digital assistants that learn and evolve to deliver increasing levels of personalization as they gather and process information.

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Efficient Extractive Question Answering on CPU using QUIP

TLDR — Extractive question answering is an important task for providing a good user experience in many applications. The popular Retriever-Reader framework for QA using BERT can be difficult to scale as it requires the re-processing of candidate documents in the context of a question in real time. By using phrase embeddings, we can process question and context independently which drastically reduces runtime demands. On a limited experiment I found QUIP to be 4x faster than a comparable QA model […]

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Cool New Features in Python 3.11

Python 3.11 was published on October 24, 2022. This latest version of Python is faster and more user-friendly. After seventeen months of development, it’s now ready for production. As in every version, Python 3.11 comes with lots of improvements and changes. You can see a list of all of them in the documentation. Here, you’ll explore the coolest and most impactful new features. In this video course, you’ll learn about new features and improvements like: Better error messages with more […]

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