Lightning Talks

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Rapid five-minute demos surface concrete claims and results: a personal anecdote links Stannislav Petrov prevented nuclear war to rescue-cat photos; a Sphinx stack shows Sphinx + Revealjs + pytest producing testable, embeddable slides and live terminals; Declarative DAX proposes YAML manifests that compile to Airflow DAGs for terabyte-scale pipelines; self-hosting lists Jellyfin and Image as drop-in alternatives; an Assembly-of-Experts merge of Deepseek V3 and R1 claims R1-level quality with ~40% fewer tokens and thousands of downloads.

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1. 0:00Lightning Talks format
2. 1:09Lightning talk presenters
3. 3:26Cats and nuclear war story
4. 6:41Sphinx tech presentations
5. 10:15Data pipelines declarative days
6. 13:46Self-hosting privacy open source
7. 17:40AI model merging experts
8. 21:59Closing remarks

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