Strange Loop Conference Courses

Learnfun and Playfun - A Nintendo Automation System

Explore an innovative approach to automating NES gameplay using lexicographic ordering and time travel. Learn how a program deduces winning strategies by observing human players and searches for optimal button sequences.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Building a Multi-Master Distributed Redis in Erlang

Explore the development of Edis, a highly available NoSQL database using Redis protocol and Erlang. Learn about multi-master architecture, paxos algorithm, and distributed computing concepts.

• YouTube
• 39 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Continuum - A JS - ES6 - VM Written in JS - ES3

Explore an ECMAScript 6 VM built in ECMAScript 3, covering parsing, compilation, linking, and interpretation. Dive into Continuum's architecture, compatibility, and self-hosted standard library implementation.

• YouTube
• 38 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Functional Vectors, Maps, and Sets in Julia

Explore functional data structures in Julia: implementing persistent vectors, hash maps, and sets. Learn optimizations for improved performance in this hands-on coding session.

• YouTube
• 34 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Linear Logic Programming

Explore linear logic programming's unique approach to state change and resource management, with applications in state machines, narratives, and interactive systems using the Celf language.

• YouTube
• 39 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Xiki - GUI and Text Interfaces are Converging

Xiki: Innovative text-based interface combining shell, code snippets, and GUI elements for efficient control of web browsers, databases, and APIs. Simplifies menu creation and tool interaction.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Bust the Android Fragmentation Myth

Learn techniques to overcome Android fragmentation, including responsive design and progressive enhancement, applicable for developers of all team sizes.

• YouTube
• 33 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Creative Machines

Exploring the potential for machine creativity, this talk delves into AI-generated art, examining algorithms and techniques used to exhibit creativeness and their implications for the future of artificial intelligence.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Category Theory - An Abstraction for Anything

Explore category theory's foundations, applications in programming, and powerful abstractions. Learn to recognize category-theoretical patterns and apply them to your projects.

• YouTube
• 36 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

A Relational Exploration of the Chomsky Hierarchy

Explore encoding automata and Turing Machines in miniKanren for relational programming. Learn to generate strings and associated data structures, gaining insights into the Chomsky Hierarchy and automata workings.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

How Developers Can Treat Ovarian Cancer

Explore how developers leverage genomics and bioinformatics to create an evidence-based engine for personalized ovarian cancer treatment, using technologies like Clojure and Neo4J.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

CQRS with Erlang

Explore CQRS implementation in Erlang, highlighting its advantages for distributed systems and eventual consistency. Learn how Erlang's features complement CQRS principles.

• YouTube
• 36 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Dissecting Clojure Reducers

Explore Clojure Reducers through live coding, uncovering functional abstractions and performance improvements for parallel solutions. Learn from ground-up implementation and real-world examples.

• YouTube
• 39 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Scala vs Idris - Dependent Types, Now and in the Future

Exploring dependent types in Scala and Idris: current capabilities, limitations, and future possibilities. Demonstrates rich type systems' potential for program verification and static constraint capture in functional programming.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

The JavaScript Interpreter, Interpreted

Demystifying JavaScript's core concepts: function objects, prototypes, scope, and 'this'. Gain a clear understanding of the language's interpreter for better vanilla JavaScript programming.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk