Strange Loop Conference Courses

The Truth About Mentoring Minorities

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Explore effective mentoring strategies for minorities in tech, addressing inclusion challenges and career advancement. Learn from real-world experiences and case studies to foster diversity and retention.

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

Playing with Engineering

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Explore innovative approaches to engineering education through play and creativity with insights from AnnMarie Thomas's Playful Learning Lab and research on maker culture.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Architectural Patterns of Resilient Distributed Systems

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Explore architectural patterns for building resilient distributed systems, focusing on adaptation, decomposition, consistency, and safety. Learn strategies for system evolution and testing.

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

Astronaut Horse - Stable Diffusion Artist Collaborations

Explore open-source AI tools for visual art creation, featuring Stable Diffusion collaborations between developers and artists. Learn about innovative techniques and see generated artworks and physical responses.

• YouTube
• 49 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Formal Semantics for Multi-Language Programs

Explores multi-language program semantics, focusing on interoperability, reasoning about mixed-language behavior, and impacts on compiler correctness, secure compilation, and safe FFI design.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Inside the Wizard Research Engine

Explore WebAssembly's potential, challenges, and innovations through the Wizard engine, designed for instrumentation and VM experimentation in various deployment contexts.

• YouTube
• 44 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Concatenative Programming and Stack-Based Languages

Explore stack-based programming languages, their concatenative nature, and mathematical foundations. Learn about their simplicity, Turing-completeness, and applications as low-level assembly languages.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Programming Distributed Systems

Exploring innovative programming language designs to simplify distributed systems development, enhancing performance and correctness while reducing common errors in large-scale applications.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Why Programming Languages Matter

Explore the evolution and impact of programming languages through one expert's 45-year journey, highlighting challenges, opportunities, and the importance of language design in software development.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

An Approach to Computing and Sustainability Inspired From Permaculture by Devine Lu Linvega

Explore low-power computation systems and esoteric programming languages designed for offline use on salvaged devices, inspired by 7 years of Pacific Ocean sailing experiences.

• YouTube
• 55 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

From Geometry to Algebra and Back Again: 4000 Years of Papers

Explore 4000 years of vector algebra history, its applications in art, science, and programming, and discover the potential of Geometric Algebra as a superior alternative.

• YouTube
• 32 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

War Time Proofs and Futuristic Programs

Exploring Gödel's Dialectica interpretation and its connection to linear logic type theory, revealing how past mathematical ideas influence modern programming languages and type systems.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Experimentation - Putting Research Papers into Production

Strategies for implementing research concepts in production through online experimentation, focusing on challenges and solutions for evaluating complex ideas in real-world settings.

• YouTube
• 32 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Swift as C++ Successor in FoundationDB

Exploring Swift's adoption in FoundationDB, showcasing its seamless C++ interoperability, performance, and modern features for high-performance distributed systems development.

• YouTube
• 42 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Supporting Data Journalism Through Compilers for Visual Inputs

Explore innovative compilers for visual inputs in data journalism, focusing on projects that transform data graphics and thematic maps into interactive programs for newsrooms.

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