Ram Rachum

I had an idea for a debugging solution for Python that doesn't require complicated configuration like PyCharm. I released PySnooper as a cute little open-source project that does that, and to my surprise, it became a huge hit overnight, hitting the top of Hacker News, r/python and GitHub trending. In this talk I'll go into:

* How PySnooper can help you debug your code.
* How to make your open-source project go viral.
* What kind of things happen when your open-source project becomes popular, and how to deal with them.

I'm a software engineer turned ML researcher. In my software engineer hat, I've worked in web backend, infrastructure, devops, virtualization, and more. Over the last 12 years I've been an activist in the Python open-source community. I authored popular projects like PySnooper and PythonTurtle, and contributed to existing projects like CPython, Django, PyPy, Matplotlib, PyLint and more. I'm a PSF Fellow.

I'm currently working on research in Bar-Ilan University, with the goal of showing that multi-agent reinforcement learning can be used to achieve AI Safety.

I had an idea for a debugging solution for Python that doesn't require complicated configuration like PyCharm. I released PySnooper as a cute little open-source project that does that, and to my surprise, it became a huge hit overnight, hitting the top of Hacker News, r/python and GitHub trending. In this talk I'll go into:

* How PySnooper can help you debug your code.
* How to make your open-source project go viral.
* What kind of things happen when your open-source project becomes popular, and how to deal with them.

I'm a software engineer turned ML researcher. In my software engineer hat, I've worked in web backend, infrastructure, devops, virtualization, and more. Over the last 12 years I've been an activist in the Python open-source community. I authored popular projects like PySnooper and PythonTurtle, and contributed to existing projects like CPython, Django, PyPy, Matplotlib, PyLint and more. I'm a PSF Fellow.

I'm currently working on research in Bar-Ilan University, with the goal of showing that multi-agent reinforcement learning can be used to achieve AI Safety.