Topics

• R and Python for regression
  By: Jerry Dumblauskas
  Length: 5 Minutes
  Description: Let's compare our favorite language to an 'upstart' highly focused statistical language.
• Erlang
  By: Garrett Smith
  Description: ULS Erlang entry
• Conway's Game of Life: Programming in a non-language
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  Length: 5 Minutes
  Description: The Game of Life is Turing Complete. That means it can (theoretically) calculate anything that any computer can calculate. What does this mean in practice and how can you program a calculation when the total syntax is just flipping cells in a 2D bit field?
• Postscript. Yes, it's a programming language
  By: Ken Schutte
  Length: 5 Minutes
  Description: I'll describe Postscript - a interpreted, stack-based "page description language" used to produce vector graphics and documents.
• as former C# developer the lessons I learned to become pythonic
  By: JC LatinoTV
  Description: language comparison in 5 minutes
• QML vs. Python
  By: Patrick K. O'Brien
  Length: 5 Minutes
  Description: If you think Python is Pythonic, wait until you see QML from the point of view of an experienced Python developer. QML is the Qt Meta Language or Qt Modeling Language. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QML
• Is True true? : A mini-venture into Python & Ruby truth testing
  By: Lorena Nicole
  Length: 5 Minutes
  Description: Review of truth testing in Python and Ruby. If "Explicit is better than Implicit" then why does Python decide that values like empty sequences are "falsey"? How is it that Ruby only defines false and nil as false values, isn't this more explicit? Highlight how languages embed their own philosophies of what is correct and true with surprising overlaps and at times odd contradictions.
• Swift
  By: Feihong Hsu
  Description:
• Go: Concurrency is Built In
  By: Chris Foresman
  Length: 5 Minutes
  Description: Discussing the pros and cons of Golang from a Python user's perspective, particularly focusing on its built-in support for concurrency and the advantages over asyncio.