Strange Loop Conference Courses

Digital and Social Resilience through the NYC Mesh

Explore NYC Mesh's community-run network, empowering users with high-speed internet access, technical skills, and digital resilience through decentralized infrastructure and educational initiatives.

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

Towards an Open, Reasonable Web

Explore ReasonML's evolution, its benefits for web development, and its growing open-source community. Learn about cross-platform development breakthroughs and challenges in emerging technologies.

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

Declarative APIs in an Imperative World

Explore integrating imperative APIs with declarative UI frameworks, addressing challenges and solutions in modern web development while considering historical software trends.

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

Enhancing Angklung Music Rehearsals with Modern Tech

Explore how technology enhances Angklung orchestra rehearsals, from automating team formation to optimizing note distribution, improving efficiency and musical quality.

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

Deterministic Docker Images with Go Microservices

Explore deterministic Docker image building for Go microservices, covering challenges in infrastructure, code patterns, and design to achieve faster, more efficient deployments.

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

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