Strange Loop Conference Courses

Recreating Forgotten Programming Languages, for Art

Explore the revival of early computer graphics languages, focusing on ART 1's recreation to understand vintage digital art techniques and limitations.

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

Alda's Dynamic Relationship with Clojure

Explore the intertwined history of Alda music programming language and Clojure, discussing their complex relationship, ZeroMQ, Open Sound Control, and native executable creation.

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

Typing the Untyped - Soundness in Gradual Type Systems

Explore tradeoffs in gradual type systems for untyped languages, examining soundness vs. completeness in type refinement, array errors, and variance across different implementations.

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

Observability - Superpowers for Developers

Explore how integrating observability into development enhances productivity, transforms production environments, and empowers developers with practical superpowers for debugging and improving systems.

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

Behind the New York Times Crossword

Explore the tech behind The New York Times Crossword: serverless architecture, Go rewrite, traffic management, and innovation driving the popular puzzle from creation to solving.

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

It's Just Matrix Multiplication - Notation for Weaving

Explore weaving notation, from basic terminology to complex network drafting, revealing connections between textile patterns and mathematical concepts like matrix multiplication.

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

For AI, By AI - Freedom & Evolution of the AlgoPoetic Avant-Garde

Explore AI-generated poetry and its impact on language as a social practice. Delve into the New Yorken Poesry Magazine's approach to machine-created art and the importance of community in algorithmic poetry.

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

Flare - Optimizing Apache Spark for Scale-Up Architectures and Medium-Size Data

Optimizing Apache Spark for medium-size data on single powerful servers. Flare accelerator module delivers significant speedups using code generation techniques inspired by main-memory database systems.

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

Musical Steganography - Hiding Things in Music

Explore techniques for concealing messages in music, from Bach's compositions to modern digital methods. Learn to apply steganographic principles using TidalCycles and Haskell.

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

Hazel - A Live Functional Programming Environment with Typed Holes

Explore Hazel, a web-based environment for functional programming with typed holes, enabling continuous type-based services and live debugging during development of incomplete programs.

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

The Search for a New Visual Search - Beyond Language

Exploring AI-powered visual search beyond text, focusing on composition-aware technology for precise image retrieval using machine vision, NLP, and information retrieval techniques.

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

Software Performance - A Shape Not a Number

Explore the evolution of software performance measurement, from averages to percentiles to unsampled histograms, and learn how latency histograms provide clearer insights for modern microservice architectures.

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

Understanding TypeScript's Structural Type System

Explore TypeScript's structural type system, its benefits for JavaScript development, and how it balances flexibility with type safety through shape-based typing.

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

Mapping Imaginary Cities

Explore algorithms and techniques for procedurally generating fictional city maps, including topography, landscape, populations, and street plans. Dive into maps as a creative tool for conveying ideas about space and inhabitants.

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

Puzzles, Problems, and Programs

Explore mental model alignment in puzzles, problems, and programming through interactive techniques and informative failure, enhancing cognitive abilities and problem-solving skills.

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