TITLE: Back from StrangeLoop 2013
AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford
DATE: September 22, 2013 10:27 AM
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I'm back home for StrangeLoop 2013.  It was, again, an outstanding
conference: a great location, excellent amenities, fun side events,
and -- most importantly -- a solid set of talks: diverse topics,
strong technical content, and a some very good speakers.  Alex
Miller and his team put on a good conference.

This year, I went to the talks old school: with a steno notebook
and no technology but a camera.  As a result, a couple of things
are different about how I'm blogging the conference.  First, I did
not write or post any entries during the event itself.  Second,
my notes are a bit shorter than usual and will need to be typed up
before they become blog entries.  I'll write my thoughts up over
the next week or so and post the entries as they emerge.

This entry will serve as a table of contents for my StrangeLoop
posts, a home base for readers who might stumble onto one post
and care to read more.  For now, I'll list a few entries I expect
to write, but I'll only know what belongs here after I have
written them.

Primary entries:

<UL>
<LI> Jenny Finkel on
     <A HREF="http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2013-09.html#e2013-09-22T15_51_52.htm">
        Machine Learning at Prismatic</A> </LI>
<LI> <A HREF="http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2013-09.html#e2013-09-24T16_38_27.htm">
	Compilers, Compilers, Compilers</A> </LI>
<LI> <A HREF="http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2013-09.html#e2013-09-27T16_26_30.htm">
        Add All These Things</A>,
     Avi Bryant's talk on data analytics and...  monoids </LI>
<LI> Rich Hickey on
     <A HREF="http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2013-10.html#e2013-10-04T15_12_57.htm">
       channels and program design</A> </LI>
<LI> <A HREF="http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2013-10.html#e2013-10-07T12_07_34.htm">
	Exercises in Programming Style</A>, by Crista Lopes </LI>
<LI> Martin Odersky on <!A HREF="">the trouble with types</A> </LI>
<LI> <!A HREF="">a bag of unrelated talks</A> </LI>
</UL>

Ancillary entries:

<UL>
<LI> This and That -- the inevitable miscellaneous thoughts
     <UL>
     <LI> <A HREF="http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2013-09.html#e2013-09-23T16_22_47.htm">
             Volume 1</A> </LI>
     <LI> <A HREF="http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2013-09.html#e2013-09-28T12_17_34.htm">
             Volume 2</A> </LI>
     </UL>  </LI>
</UL>

Is it too early to start looking forward to StrangeLoop 2014?
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