Interview #3 – Adrien Treuille

(Tyler) Hey, Adrien! Thanks for being willing to be interviewed for this. Before we really get started, do you want to tell me a little bit about yourself? I know you were a professor at Carnegie Mellon, and before that you were working with protein folding. You've also worked on self-driving cars, and now are the founder of Streamlit. So how do you introduce yourself?

(Adrien) First of all, when I was a professor, this whole Python data stack was kind of new. NumPy was certainly pre 1.0, and there was kind of this revelation that there was this amazing library called NumPy, all of a sudden, that made Python as good as MATLAB, and then after a while, way was better than MATLAB. That was the beginning of Python becoming the dominant language of numerical computation, and then ultimately machine learning. Python was a scripting language, a sysadmin language, or maybe a CS 101 language. All of a sudden it had this massive, new, super important...