Databricks has released an open source language model calledDolly, which has been trained on a small corpus of instruction data and fine-tuned to exhibit ChatGPT-like interactivity. Despite being only 6 billion parameters and two years old, Dolly exhibits instruction-following capabilities such as .. read more  

This article is a guide for experienced developers who need to do asynchronous processing many times, such as scraping data or calling an API multiple times. It discusses ways to limit the concurrency in asyncio to avoid loading everything in memory at once and overloading the services being called.. read more  

Using type hints in Python helps with autocomplete, refactor, static analysis, and tool checks while working with annotated libraries like Pydantic, FastAPI, etc. Type hints can distinguish immediate error checking and type checking for build & deployment processes. Different use cases require awar.. read more  

dbtis a powerful data transformation tool that supports SQL transformation and model creation. It was originally created in Python but is intended for SQL transformation. However, with the trend towards language convergence among various data warehouse vendors, the trend towards support for Python i.. read more  

Twitter has announced that they are inviting the community to submit GitHub issues and pull requests to improvetheir recommendations algorithm. They have also shared two new repositories containing the source code for many parts of Twitter, including their recommendations algorithm, which controls t.. read more  

The author discusses their experience with using build systems in frontend projects, and why they don't find them necessary for small, simple projects that they don't plan on maintaining regularly. They provide examples of the difficulties they've had in building old projects and note that some libr.. read more  

The article provides a comparison between Rust, C#, and Go in terms of performance benchmarks for web APIs deployed on Kubernetes. It creates two web APIs, one in Rust and one in C#, each with two methods to store and retrieve information, and explores the code to make necessary changes for the proj.. read more  

The author of the post is an experienced developer who spends most of their time writing code in a full screen terminal. During their breaks, they like to read books and use Project Gutenberg to access over 70,000 free books that are copyright-free. They created a program called burgr, which allows.. read more