A compilation of talks and lectures given by Clark Brown related to mathematics and computing.

Neighbor Mind Garden Lecture Series, March 2023: Talk about the Soggetto Cavato (carved subject) method of embedding words into music from the 15th century. Included a live demonstration of the python project soggetto-cavato which embeds any string into a simple melody. (Slides)

Neighbor Mind Garden Lecture Series, December 2022: An overview of the Halting Problem and the proof by contradiction that shows Turing machines cannot solve it. Explores the consequences and applications in computing. (Slides | Video)

Neighbor Mind Garden Lecture Series, November 2021: A walkthrough of using the Ruby gem grift for mocking methods in the MiniTest testing framework for Ruby. This was given shortly after the inital release of grift. (Video)

BYU Student Research Conference, February 2020: Talk covering the application of the Perron-Frobenius Theorem regarding an exponential growth model with migration. Covers how that applies to our proof that Talyor's Law holds for the population samples from such a model. (Slides)

Neighbor Mind Garden Lecture Series, October 2020: Lightning talk about how eigenface facial recognition works. Explores the role of the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) in the process. (Poster | Video)

Neighbor Mind Garden Lecture Series, August 2020: Talk about edit distance algorithms and some of their use cases in software. Covers some of the common algorithms and the tradeoffs between different distances. (Slides | Video)

BYU Student Research Conference, February 2020: Talk about then ongoing reserach into Taylor's Law with a population model that incldues exponential growth and migration between sub-populations. Covers Taylor's Law and our approach for proving it holds in a population model with migration. (Slides)

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