Threads Conference
NNWW One-Day Celebration (June 5, 2016, Las Alas Lodge, Sequoia)
A conference, at a wedding? Why not?!
We invited the N&N community to share their passions and talents with us—and they sure delivered! Some of the threads we called for were showcased in a semi-impromptu conference held in Las Alas Lodge on Sunday morning. (See the original line-up, as of Sunday morning.)
See here for many more photos from the conference (as well as the rest of Sunday’s One-Day celebrations).
Infinite thanks to our amazing presenters, and to Praveen Paritosh and Phing Lee for their organizational panache!
Presenters
Scott Myers-Lipton
Introduction to the Sequoia Retreat Center
James Thomas
Wonder, Control, and Scope (slides)
Clare Lynch
Mind the Gap: Reading the signs when communicating across cultures
(slides)
Jason Horowitz
Bach: Music with Commentary
Mira Bernstein
Magic Trick (Topology)
Katy Masuga
Readings from The Origin of Vermillion
Praveen Paritosh
Spilt Ink (text), feat. Julia Bernd on footnotes
Adam Safron
On the nature of sexual preference (slides; note that slides are on topic)
Josh Tenenbaum
Robots vs. Humans (or, Reverse-engineering the roots of human intelligence)
Huma Dar
Of Love and Revolutions
James Edwards
A Go at Life (or, How I learned to stop worrying and love a mechanical universe) (slides)
Scott FitzGerald
Machines (more info)
Nick & Nancy
N&N WW: Origins
(Or: how not to plan a wedding)
(slides)
Liked what you saw? Want to hear more? Inspired to take part next time? We would be absolutely thrilled to do something like this again and to weave your thread in too. Get in touch: nn@nickandnancy.net
