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

There Are No Shortcuts in Organizing, but Technology Sure Does Help

Explore how tech skills enhanced workplace organizing efforts, featuring data visualization, automation, and web development techniques used by the Times Tech Guild to boost solidarity.

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

Diagrammar - Simply Make Interactive Diagrams

Explore Diagrammar, a tool for creating interactive STEM diagrams using Elm. Learn its primitives, design principles, and insights from thousands of diagrams across various courses.

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

Modern B-Tree Techniques

Explore advanced B-Tree techniques in databases and file systems, covering efficiency improvements, new functionalities, and hardware adaptations. Learn about PostgreSQL implementations and other database applications.

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

The Education of a Civic Technologist

Explore how U.S. Digital Response partners with governments to address COVID challenges, focusing on problem discovery, suitable tool selection, and creating scalable civic tech solutions.

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

Reviving 1990's Digital Dress-Up Dolls with Smooch

Explore the revival of 1990s digital dress-up dolls using JavaScript and Haskell. Dive into the Kisekae Set System's specifications, custom image format, and scripting language for a nostalgic journey through digital art history.

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

Data Driven Investigation in Defense of Human Rights

Exploring data-driven methods for exposing human rights abuses, combining code, design, and analysis to develop new investigative techniques and foster interdisciplinary collaborations.

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

Demystifying Privacy Preserving Computing

Explore cutting-edge Privacy-Preserving Computing techniques like secure multiparty computation, fully homomorphic encryption, and differential privacy for protecting data confidentiality during processing.

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

JavaScript Ahead-Of-Time Compilation Performance

Exploring JavaScript AOT compilation optimization techniques and performance analysis, focusing on Hopc compiler's innovative approach to efficient code generation without complex static analyses.

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

Time Travel Debugging JavaScript Applications

Explore time travel debugging for JavaScript applications, learning to pause, rewind, and fast-forward execution to efficiently investigate and resolve common bugs using Replay.io.

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

AVIF - Creating a New Image Format in the Open

Explore the creation of AVIF, a groundbreaking image format, its technical innovations, and the collaborative process behind its development and implementation in major browsers.

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

Architecting Decentralized Data

Explore alternative architecture for decentralized data ownership, covering identity, privacy, storage, and analysis. Learn about tradeoffs, tools, and emerging standards for user-controlled data in consumer applications.

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

Blueprints for a Universal Reasoning Machine

Exploring the concept of a universal reasoning machine, combining probabilistic and causal inference, computational languages, and deep learning to automate all forms of inference across domains.

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