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Functional Programming in Plain TermsRailsConf 20222022-05-17
Walks through concrete examples: Haskell type signatures like head :: [a] -> Maybe a, shows how fmap maps to Ruby map, and demonstrates accumulation with…
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Interview Them Where They AreRailsConf 20192019-05-01
Argues that technical interviewing is broken and prescribes concrete fixes: refactor job descriptions to state required stack and success metrics (example…
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Value Your Types!!!Con West 20192019-03-25
Types encode concrete properties now: dependent types express “non‑negative” or “length‑N” constraints, shown with Idris vectors where the type carries the…
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Being Good: An Introduction to Robo- and Machine EthicsRubyConf 20182018-11-28
Three concrete failure modes decide whether to watch: a medical irradiator (Therac-25) replaces hardware interlocks with assembly code and concurrent bugs and…
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What If... ?: Ruby 3RubyConf 20172017-11-15
Explores three concrete rewrites: static typing (examples with Crystal and an Idris‑style dependent types sketch, plus RubyVM::InstructionSequence…
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Infinite State Machine Poetry in, with, and by ClojureClojure/conj 20172017-10-12
Clojure code generates poems using a Markov chain on Keats (≈2,000 lines, ~13,660 words, ~80k chars) and a recurrent neural network on Shakespeare (≈125k…
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Do Androids Dream of Electronic Dance Music?RubyKaigi 20172017-09-18
A pipeline converts 110 MIDI files (royalty-free deadmau5 samples) into TFRecords and trains an LSTM via TensorFlow and Magenta (mostly Python with ~5% Ruby…
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Machine Learning with Elixir and PhoenixElixirConf EU 20172017-05-04
Claims a homegrown Elixir neural network can predict 20‑day returns on S&P 500 (SPY) data and be deployed in a Phoenix app. Uses Python to prep data, then…
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Dōmo arigatō, Mr. Roboto: Machine Learning with RubyRubyConf 20162016-11-10
A Ruby implementation trains a neural network on the MNIST dataset using the RubyFann gem and serves a React front end with a Sinatra backend; the model maps…
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Machine Learning with Clojure and Apache SparkEuroClojure 20162016-10-25
Compares Clojure bindings for Spark by building a binary classifier on 600,000 LA police stops using flambo vs sparkling, trains a decision tree (max depth 5…
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Booting Up: Hiring and Growing Boot Camp GraduatesRailsConf 20162016-05-04
States the concrete claim: in 2015 nearly a hundred programming boot camps produce thousands of graduates, and hiring needs change accordingly. Describes which…
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to Ruby GCRubyConf 20152015-11-15
Shows that garbage collection, not just databases or algorithms, is the real culprit: a Sinatra app hits about half a million live objects on boot, Ruby 1.9.3…
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So Long, Hoboken: Migrating a Huge Production Codebase from Sinatra to RailsRailsConf 20152015-04-21
A migration moves a 12–14 small-app Sinatra suite into Rails by choosing between melting/mounting (Rails boots Sinatra, hurting memory and reload performance)…
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