DDD Melbourne 2019
as the organisers put it
DDD Melbourne is an inclusive non-profit conference for the Melbourne software community. Our goal is to create an approachable event that appeals to the whole community, especially people who usually don’t have the opportunity to attend, or speak at, conferences.
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Mining Music Mentoring to Grow Good Devs | Vanessa Nimmo | 17m |
Argues that music teaching methods map to developer mentoring and gives concrete practices: use Bloom's taxonomy and acceptance criteria as measurable learning… | ||
| The Value of Latin | Celia King | 19m |
Argues that classical Latin directly speeds up learning practical programming skills, showing concrete examples: reading SQL like a sentence (select id from… | ||
| Putting the Fast in fast.ai - Machine Learning Models in 15 mins | Akanksha Malik | 18m |
Fastai plus transfer learning builds an image classifier from scratch using ResNet34 pretrained on 14M images and an image databunch sourced from Google Images… | ||
| Utility vs Sanctity: Designing an ethically acceptable AI | Benjamin Pearson | 15m |
Presents the helmet vs no-helmet car scenario and the trolley problem with five vs one casualties, argues unconscious bias creeps into training data and thus… | ||
| Time Throughout the Ages | Raphael Haddad | 20m |
A concise history links sundials, water clocks and Huygens’ 1656 pendulum to quartz watches (Warren Morrison, 1928) and the atomic definition of the second… | ||
| I was framed! Why learning with frameworks does not work | Leah Eramo | 31m |
Built a Rails app in a day with the generator and scaffold yields a working site but not understanding — common errors like “nil class” and missing model… | ||
| Modern Authentication 101 | Dasith Wijesiriwardena | 47m |
Explains why modern systems use claims-based identity and leveraging existing identity stores rather than homegrown user tables, shows the difference between… | ||
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