Strange Loop Conference Courses

Improving Law Interpretability Using NLP

Explore NLP techniques for extracting rules, identifying compliance entities, and organizing legal texts to improve accessibility and interpretation of laws for the public.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Dive into Streams with Brooklin

Explore LinkedIn's Brooklin: a scalable, extensible data streaming service supporting multiple sources and destinations for near real-time data movement and change data capture.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Temporal Databases for Streaming Architectures

Explore Crux, an open-source document database with bitemporal graph queries. Learn about its design, implementation, and future directions for efficient temporal data management in streaming architectures.

• YouTube
• 35 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Beyond Traces - The Insights in Trace Aggregates

Explore how aggregating distributed traces reveals system-wide insights, enabling performance improvements through statistical analysis, latency anomaly detection, and resource contention identification.

• YouTube
• 33 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Finding Bugs Without Running or Even Looking at Code

Discover how model checkers like Alloy can find complex bugs and validate architectural proposals without running or viewing code, through formal specifications and simulations of system operations.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

How to Teach Programming - and Other Things

Explore effective programming education strategies, from exploratory methods to rote learning, and discover innovative approaches to teach coding more efficiently based on research into misconceptions and code phonology.

• YouTube
• 52 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Scala DSLs and Probabilistic Programming

Explore ScalaStan, a type-safe DSL for statistical modeling with Stan, enabling programmatic manipulation and generation of Stan programs within Scala for efficient Bayesian inference and data analysis.

• YouTube
• 33 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Of Data Dropboxes and Data Gloveboxes

Exploring data security through nuclear isolation techniques, this talk presents innovative approaches to protect sensitive information and ensure controlled data manipulation in modern data science.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Soul from Scratch - Designing a More Portable Organ

Explore digital organ synthesis, from Hammond B-3 mechanics to microcontroller implementation. Learn to create a portable, MIDI-controlled organ synthesizer, with insights on audio modeling and optimization techniques.

• YouTube
• 38 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

How We've Made a Global Search Engine for Genetic Data

Explore the Beacon Network, a global search engine for genetic data, and learn about its architecture, challenges, and impact on genetic research and data sharing.

• YouTube
• 35 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

You Are a Program Synthesizer

Explore program synthesis insights to improve coding skills. Learn about code quality, specification-driven development, and advanced analysis techniques for better programming practices.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Designing Augmented Reality Systems for Speed

Explore designing AR systems for speed, balancing complex algorithms with resource limitations. Learn trade-offs, concurrency, real-time interactions, and caching in AR development.

• YouTube
• 38 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Isolation without Containers

Explore software fault isolation techniques beyond containers, focusing on sandboxing compilers for edge computing and IoT. Learn about machine code generation, optimization, and system integration.

• YouTube
• 32 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

The Bots That Help Run Wikipedia

Explore the fascinating world of Wikipedia bots: their crucial role, diverse functions, and the technology behind them. Learn how to create your own bot and contribute to this unique ecosystem.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Freeing the Software That Runs Our Elections

Explore open-source software projects for US elections, focusing on San Francisco's initiative. Learn about voting systems, ballot processing, and the advantages of transparent election technology.

• YouTube
• 35 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk