Presentations
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- Cognitive Psychology for Hackers
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Experience firsthand some of the most interesting, surprising, and perspective-changing findings from cognitive and social neuropsychology. With perceptual illusions, priming, biases, heuristics, and unconscious influences, humans have tons of firmware "bugs". All have exploits; some even have patches.
Learn how to improve your own thinking, use others' bugs to your advantage, and gain new perspective on the unconscious and often illusory processes involved in your perceptions.
- TSA Screenings & Your Rights
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- Meditation for Hackers
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2 hour applied workshop practicing 5-7 very different meditation techniques, discussing dozens of variants, and giving detailed account of actual dissociative-hypnotic brainwashing techniques used by Scientology and other cults.
- Conlanging 101
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Introduction to history and typology of constructed languages. In full talk, the audience co-creates a very simple language on the spot.
- TEDxUChicago finalist
- 26th Chaos Communications Congress video workshop audio feedback
- Notacon 7
- Toorcamp 2009
- Noisebridge Five Minutes of Fame video
- Free Space File System
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proposal of a novel thin steganographic file system that stores data in the “free” space of a host file system
- Introduction to anti-telemarketer law
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discussion of US federal & California laws regulating telemarketers, and how to track down and take action against abusive telemarketers who behave improperly
- Intro to American Sign Language
- Massage techniques
- How to run a conference
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- Why blocking cookies won't save you
- A gripping language
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the unique tactile phonology of our gripping language, which is communicated entirely by finger presses
- Applied Morphology & Vocabulary Generation
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2 1-hour workshops teaching a creative approach to morphology; first using tinker toys to allow participants a more abstract view of potential interactions of morphemes, then applying these ideas to standard phonology using nonce morphemes.
- Non-Linear Fully 2-Dimensional Writing Systems video
