Thanks to everyone who came to my @EuroPython keynote on LLMs from prototype to production ✨

Here are my slides and a walkthrough of the talk as a Twitter thread 🧵

https://t.co/mvqyCdsr8wspeakerdeck.com/inesmontani/la…
I'm the co-founder of @explosion_ai, best known for our open-source library @spacy_io. It's one of the most popular libraries for building NLP solutions, and it's been around quite a while now — long enough that ChatGPT is pretty good at writing code for it!

Since pre-releasing @spacy_io v3 nightly, we've mostly been talking about the big features like transformer-based pipelines, the config system etc.

But there's also a bunch of smaller details that you'll love if you're a spaCy power user 💪💙

Here are some of my favs! (thread) Matcher.add now supports greedy matches! The value of the greedy attribute can either be "FIRST" or "LONGEST".

📖 nightly.spacy.io/api/matcher#add

I'm trying something new today! 💥

Had a lot of fun giving my keynote talk at @PyConColombia yesterday, so here it is – in tweet form. One tweet per slide.

The future of NLP in Python (thread)
Full slide deck: speakerdeck.com/inesmontani/th… Hi Medellín and shoutout to @tiangolo, who taught me all about local greetings 😉 Sebastián recently moved to Berlin to join our team at @explosion_ai, so he couldn't make it to Colombia. But he says hi!

Someone asked me for tips in the comments, so I might as well make this a thread. Here are my personal recommendations for how to get started with front-end development, APIs, CSS, React, UI design and more 👇

https://twitter.com/joelgrus/status/1143951419151540225

🖼️ APIs: If you're looking to learn one modern framework for building REST APIs, check out FastAPI by @tiangolo. It's fast, easy to use and easy to learn, powered by type hints and it even comes with auto-generated docs. fastapi.tiangolo.com

🎨 A short thread of some cool ways to visualize @spacy_io's output in your terminal! @spacy_io Explacy by @tylerneylon gives you a very nicely formatted dependency tree and a table including part-of-speech tags and lemmas.

github.com/tylerneylon/ex…

The video of my @EuroPython 2018 keynote is now live: "How to Ignore Most Startup Advice and Build a Decent Software Business" ✨

For everyone who's been asking for more readings along the same lines, here are some classics (thread)

1) It's hard to believe this is from 2003. @spolsky (founder of @FogCreek and @StackOverflow) nails the root incentive mismatch. It's the same today, but worse: founders need high median outcome, VC needs high mean outcome. joelonsoftware.com/2003/06/03/fix…