TITLE: Strange Loop 6: Index + This and That
AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford
DATE: October 04, 2018  4:46 PM
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 For my convenience and yours, here are all of Strange Loop 2018 posts:
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<LI> <A HREF="http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2018-09.html#e2018-09-29T18_19_10.htm">
        Day One</A>  </LI>
<LI> <A HREF="http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2018-09.html#e2018-09-30T10_31_14.htm">
        Simon Peyton Jones on Teaching CS in the Schools</A>  </LI>
<LI> <A HREF="http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2018-09.html#e2018-09-30T18_40_21.htm">
        David Schm&uuml;dde and the Art of Misuse</A>  </LI>
<LI> <A HREF="http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2018-10.html#e2018-10-01T19_12_17.htm">
        The Quotable Wadler</A>  </LI>
<LI> <A HREF="http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2018-10.html#e2018-10-02T16_04_01.htm">
        Day Two</A>  </LI>
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 ... and few parting thoughts of the non-technical variety:
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<LI> All the images used in these posts are photos I took at the
     conference.  They are licensed
     <A HREF="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">
        CC Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported</A>.  </LI>
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<LI> On Day One, Jason Dagit kept saying H.E., for "homomorphic
     encryption".  For a while I was confused, because my brain
     kept hearing A.G.  </LI>
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<LI> I left my laptop in the hotel room this year, in order to
     engage more with the talks and the people than with a web
     browser.  I'm glad I did: I enjoyed the talks more.  I
     also took fewer and more focused notes.  That made blogging
     easier and quicker.  </LI>
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<LI> I also decided not to acquire swag as greedily as usual,
     and I did a pretty good job of holding back...  except for
     this beautiful hard-bound Jane Street notebook with graphed
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     "Enter the Monad."  Very nice.  They must be doing well.  </LI>
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<LI> I left St. Louis with a lot of plastic.  The Stifel Theater,
     the conference's main venue, does not recycle plastic.  Like
     many conference goers, I went through a fair number of water
     and soda bottles.  I hate to see all that plastic go into
     the landfill and, having driven down, I did not have to
     contribute.  Twice a day, I took whatever bottles I had
     emptied, and whatever other bottles I found lying around,
     back to my car and through them in the trunk.  When I got
     home, they went straight into the recycling bin.  Yet another
     advantage to driving over flying.  </LI>
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I think that's all from Strange Loop 2018.  It was fun.
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