Python

Formatting Floats Inside Python F-Strings

You’ll often need to format and round a Python float to display the results of your calculations neatly within strings. In earlier versions of Python, this was a messy thing to do because you needed to round your numbers first and then use either string concatenation or the old string formatting technique to do this for you. Since Python 3.6, the literal string interpolation, more commonly known as a formatted string literal or f-string, allows you to customize the content […]

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Hardware and devices Leave a comment

Preventing side-channels in the cloud

Cloud computing delivers scalable and cost-effective compute resources to a wide range of customers. The ability for cloud providers to share components of the hardware stack across customers, or tenants, is essential for running efficient cloud systems. For example, modern central processing units (CPUs) pack hundreds of physical hardware threads sharing terabytes of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM), which can be flexibly assigned to many independent virtual machines (VMs). Preventing tenants from snooping on others who  

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Python

Python News Roundup: November 2024

The latest Python developments all point to the same thing—Python is currently thriving. The recent GitHub Octoverse 2024 report has revealed that Python is now the most used language on GitHub. Also, last month saw the release of Python 3.13, which is already laying the groundwork for some exciting future improvements. While Python core developers have been busy exploring the language’s features as they tinker with upcoming enhancements, it’s good to know that working on Python’s source code isn’t the […]

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Collaborators: Prompt engineering with Siddharth Suri and David Holtz

[MUSIC FADES] Today I’m talking to Dr. Siddharth Suri, also known as Sid, who’s a computational social scientist and a senior principal researcher at Microsoft Research. With him is Dr. David Holtz, an assistant professor in the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Sid and David are co-leading a team of researchers who are exploring the fascinating world of prompt engineering as part of the AI, Cognition, and the Economy, or AICE, initiative at Microsoft Research. […]

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Machine Learning

Building a Robust Machine Learning Pipeline: Best Practices and Common Pitfalls

Building a Robust Machine Learning Pipeline: Best Practices and Common PitfallsImage by Editor | Midjourney In real life, the machine learning model is not a standalone object that only produces a prediction. It is part of an extended system that can only provide values if we manage it together. We need the machine learning (ML) pipeline to operate the model and deliver value. Building an ML pipeline would require us to understand the end-to-end process of the machine learning lifecycle. […]

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Python

How to Reset a pandas DataFrame Index

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to reset a pandas DataFrame index, the reasons why you might want to do this, and the problems that could occur if you don’t. Before you start your learning journey, you should familiarize yourself with how to create a pandas DataFrame. Knowing the difference between a DataFrame and a pandas Series will also prove useful to you. In addition, you may want to use the data analysis tool Jupyter Notebook as you work through […]

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From static prediction to dynamic characterization: AI2BMD advances protein dynamics with ab initio accuracy

The essence of the biological world lies in the ever-changing nature of its molecules and their interactions. Understanding the dynamics and interactions of biomolecules is crucial for deciphering the mechanisms behind biological processes and for developing biomaterials and drugs. As Richard Feynman famously said, “Everything that living things do can be understood in terms of the jigglings and wigglings of atoms.” Yet capturing these real-life movements is nearly impossible through experiments.  In recent years, with the development of deep  

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Neural Machine Translation (NMT), NMT Leave a comment

Highlights from Machine Translation and Multilinguality in October 2024

Here are summaries of a few pre-preprints that I noticed on arXiv during October. LangSAMP: Language-Script Aware Multilingual Pretraining Folks from LMU Munich try a relatively simple trick to improve multilingual encoder models, particularly non-Latin-script and low-resource languages. They use additional information about the language identity and the script, but only during training, so at the inference, we can still use the model without caring about what language we feed in. They add static language and script embeddings before the […]

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Programming languages and software engineering Leave a comment

Abstracts: November 5, 2024

HAWBLITZEL: So what we’re trying to address is a very simple problem where we’re trying to help developers write software that doesn’t have bugs in it. And we’re trying to provide a tool with Verus that will help developers show that their code actually behaves the way it’s supposed to; it obeys some sort of specification for what the program is supposed to do.  TINGLE: How does this publication build on or differ from other research in this field, including […]

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Python

Quiz: Variables in Python: Usage and Best Practices

Interactive Quiz ⋅ 16 QuestionsBy Leodanis Pozo Ramos Share In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of Variables in Python: Usage and Best Practices. By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how to create and assign values to variables, change a variable’s data type dynamically, use variables to create expressions, counters, accumulators, and Boolean flags, follow best practices for naming variables, and create, access, and use variables in their scopes. The quiz contains 16 questions and there is no time […]

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