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Yihyun Lim
Speaker 1: Okay. Thank you for having me here today. So I’m going to take a step back actually turn the other way and talk more about the design processes. So about how we’ve been doing it at the design lab, observing interfaces, interactions, and also experiences. Not only using bio, like biotech but also with other materials, responsive materials, adaptive materials and so forth. So it’s going to be somewhat different from very science heavy presentations that we’ve been hearing, but more about the methods and processes that we have been thinking about and also adopting in our work.
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baby WOGUE Voice - Community Ratings
First thanks everyone for completing this, and time to go to the results! Before though, many people will say these results come from subscribers and people that like this channel, so I want to show you something from baby WOGUE analytics. That’s the last 4 weeks analytics, and I want to compare the behavior of subscribers versus non-subscribers. Speaking of which, baby WOGUE subscribers are more resistant to Ubuntu Virus!
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!!Con West 2020 - Kathleen Tuite: The hacks behind my 3D reconstructed wedding cake topper!
Okay. Thank you very much. I’m Kathleen. My pronouns are she/her. And I’m gonna tell you a little story. It’s part love story. I met my partner here at UCSC, right in the Baskin Engineering Area in a computer graphics class. And one of the first lab activities was like bringing in an object from home. And 3D scanning it with a structured light sensor, and I brought this garden gnome that my roommate had, that we called No-Pants Dan, because his legs were flesh-colored, but it’s also a story of overengineering my way into a problem and then overengineering my way out of it again.
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!!Con West 2020 - Matías Lang: Delete all code! 100% testing coverage, the lazy way!
Okay. Hi, everyone! So my talk idea started one day at my company, while reviewing year end bonuses. This is a monetary compensation. Based on the accomplishment of certain objectives the company had. So as any good employee, I tried to find a way to automate this thing. Oh, not working. Okay. To automate this thing. Let’s find a way to minimize the work I had to do.
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!!Con West 2020: Dr. Kate Compton - Of Muppets, Metaballs, and Ballroom Dance!
And I’m your emergency speaker for today. They asked me to give this talk on Thursday. I have not practiced this, but it does have a lot of animated JIFES in it. So prepare yourself. JIFES is the RC Cola of GIF pronunciation. It angers everyone. So a little about me, I’m galaxykate, recently graduated from UC Santa Cruz, I’m now Dr. Galaxy Kate. I’m probably best known for creating the language called Tracery which powers the website called cheapbotsdonequick so I’m the proud grandmother of 10,000 Twitter bots that we know of, including Infinite Scream, the greatest ever Twitter bot.
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!!Con West 2020: Sarah Nguyen - linkRot!! Dancing the patterns of digital decay
(one-second bursts of unintelligible human voices glitching in and out) (discordant computery bleeps and bloops) (electronic beat joins the chaos) (percussive glitchy machine-gun-like beats) (whistly static) (applause) Thank you. Okay. Hi! Okay. This is gonna be breathy because… I’m catching my breath. My name is Sarah Nguyen. Thank you for watching and being a part of linkRot, Dancing the digital decay. I’d like to start with a big thank you to Rameen Rami.
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!!Con West 2020: Tom Verbeure - Cisco Purses Cubed!
So Project Mc² was a TV program for kids, where high school girl spies would save the world using science and technology. And the project and the TV show had merchandise, and one of them was this fabulous pixel purse. (Oooooh!) (laughter) So the pixel purse uses an LED matrix, and so I didn’t know anything about this, until I saw this tweet, saying that, you know, they were on sale for $6.
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!!Con West 2020 - Jeremy Apthorp: Curses!!
All righty. Hi. My name is Jeremy. Let me just start my presentation here. So I want to talk to you today about terminals. So if you’re a programmer, you’ve probably encountered the terminal before. Looks like this. It’s a prompt. You know, the computer asks you to type something in. And then maybe you type something, and the computer does something and prints a response back. So if you’ve written code before, you might have written something that looks like this.
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!!Con West 2020 - Aaron Wood: The Ancient Greeks and Their Restless Cattle: 2300 years of Bigints!
I thought I would talk about the joy, surprise, and excitement of soap operas. Okay. So previously, on The Ancient and the Restless, Nicky tries to share a tender moment with Archimedes, but he breaks the social rules, and “well actually”s her about the finite versus the infinite. And then computes the upper bound on the number of grains of sand that would fit in the universe. And what’s interesting about this is that they had… The Greek numeral system had a myriad, which was 10^4, and they could go up to a myriad myriad, and that’s kind of as high as it would go.
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!!Con West 2020 - Opening remarks
Hi, everyone! Welcome to !!Con West 2020! (applause) I apologize for the slightly late start. My name is Lindsey Kuper. I’m Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering here in the Computer Science and Engineering department at the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. I want to give a particular welcome to to everyone who is at a !!Con for the first time. So, if you’re here for the first time, can I see a show of hands?