Welcome to Learning at Lambert Labs session #13. This week, Guy King, explains how React updates State asynchronously in a component. In Today’s Learning Session: What is State in a React component? useState hook in React 16+ Callbacks for setting State Why use callbacks? Normal case vs. unexpected case with setTimeout When should you bother with callbacks for asynchronous updates to State Q&A from our developers!

Welcome to Learning at Lambert Labs session #12. This week, Rafiq Hilali, takes us asyncio, part of the Python standard library, and how you can use it to achieve concurrency with asynchronous coroutines. In Today’s Learning Session: Different types of concurrency (threading, multiprocessing, asynchronous coroutines). What are asynchronous coroutines? When should you use asyncio? Demo using app that uses IP address to find local weather

Welcome to Learning at Lambert Labs session #11. This week, our founder George Lambert, takes us through the runtime typing checking with MonkeyType (made by Instagram) and how you can use it to make your code more readable. In Today’s Learning Session: History of dynamic and static typing in Python Argument names, docstrings and the typing modules Problem: old legacy code is hard to type Solution: use MonkeyType to generate typing stubs or even annotate your code.

Welcome to Learning at Lambert Labs session #10. This week, Tom Schafer shows us how to train machine learning models on language and actually produce code snippets using trained neural networks. In Today’s Learning Session: Quick breakdown of neural networks, deep learning and transformers What are language models? Demonstration of language model using Keras library Training and testing the model using Django docs

Welcome to Learning at Lambert Labs session #9. This week, Amelia Crowther, explains how to use pre-existing C code from Python modules. In Today’s Learning Session: Reasons to use C code from Python (old legacy apps, performance, access to the C standard library) Two methods: ctypes and creating a C extension Demo using ctypes ctype function annotations Creating a C extension module Demo using setup.py to create a C extension

Welcome to Learning at Lambert Labs session #8. This week, Aaron Elijah gives an introduction to using the Cython project to overcome bottlenecks in Python applications. In Today’s Learning Session: CPython PyObjects. Machine code vs. Bytecode. Python garbage collection and CPU caching. Introduction to Cython programming language. Advantages of Cython vs. Python Demo with Flask and Mandelbrot sets.

Welcome to Learning at Lambert Labs session #7. This week, Ramin Tawab gives an introduction to the first steps of making a decentralised app using the Ethereum blockchain. In Today’s Learning Session: Client-Server model. Decentralised model. What is a Blockchain? How all regular Web API requests and messages are eventually handled by the backend server. Ethereum blockchain (gas and transactions per blocks).

Welcome to Learning at Lambert Labs session #6. This week, Tom Kobialka, takes us through how the popular business communication platform, Slack, suffered a disastrous outage on 4th Jan 2021 and what could have been done to prevent it. In Today’s Learning Session: The origins of the Slack outage…

Welcome to another Learning at Lambert Labs session. Each week we release videos, presented by our developers, giving quick lectures on a chosen topic in technology. This week’s presenter is Guy King and his presentation takes us through a simple demo of how to use a Docker container as your…