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How to setup Python 3.8 with TensorFlow

• Create conda environment:

$ conda create --name 4thBrain python=3.8
$ conda activate 4thBrain    

• pandas (will install numpy)

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Techniques to improve as a programmer

Do not be the person who has practiced 10,000 things once, but be the person who has practiced one thing 10,000 times.
— Intentionally misquoting Bruce Lee

1. Write a lot of code. Physically type code and run it (if either part is missing, it is not quality code practice).
2. Think of coding practice as a portfolio. It should be a mix:
   • 40-60% Easy-for-you fundamentals. Practicing Pythonic idioms to solve common atomic problems. This develops fluency to solve novel challenges and build up to more advanced coding.

• 20-30% Difficult-but-possible problems. LeetCode and similar is good for this level.

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Find out if each of the following is either an acceptable or not acceptable Python identifier.

Do this by trying to assign them as an identifier for a variable. If you get a SyntaxError: can't assign to operator, fix the error by changing the identifier.

- sumTotal 
- sumtotal
- sum-total 
- sum total

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# Solutions

sumTotal = 42 # Valid

# sum-total = 42 # Invalid. Dashes are a no-no.
sum_total = 42

# sum total = 42 # Invalid. Spaces are a no-no. White space is often meaningful in Python.
sum_total = 42

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Stock Sounds

"It's a little stock"
— Lars Ulrich

Nickname	Gate	Comp	Drive	Stab	Personal Comments
Mellow Mud	2:30	7:00	7:00	9:00	Wall of fuzz with a little bite.
Tone Bender Fuzz	2:00	8:30	9:00+	9:15	Cleans up with guitar volume.

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Machine learning (ML) datasets

• OpenML's data
• "Biggest machine learning datasets from across the web."
• Open Science datasets
• Kaggle
  • Datasets
  • Competitions
• Pointers to other datasets

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Quick start to cleaning text data

What	How
Fix Unicode encoding errors	import ftfy ftfy.fix_text('✔ No problems')
Remove specific words	s = s.replace("foo", "")
Remove punctuation	import string s = s.translate(str.maketrans('', '', string.punctuation))
Remove hyperlinks	import re s = re.sub(r"https?://\S+", "", s)

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"""Check for 3rd party package, if not present, pip install it.

This is potentially dangerous code. It should only be used for educational purposes.
Defining a requirements.txt is one of the much better options.
"""

from importlib import import_module

module_name = 'pytest'

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ML datasets

• OpenML's data
• "Biggest machine learning datasets from across the web."
• Open Science datasets
• Kaggle
  • Datasets
  • Competitions
• Pointers to other datasets

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Instructions

1. Download the wheel called tensorflow-2.4.1-py3-none-any.whl located at this public google drive link:
   drive.google.com/drive/folders/1oSipZLnoeQB0Awz8U68KYeCPsULy_dQ7

2. Assuming you downloaded the wheel to your Downloads folder, install it with pip:
   $ pip install ~/Downloads/tensorflow-2.4.1-py3-none-any.whl --user

3. Test that it works with ipython at the command line: