Abstract - In this talk I share my personal journey to Typelevel as a computational biologist. We'll learn how to model evolution with probability, express those as probabilistic programs, and interpret them with probability monads, then look at why Cats Effect Native is a compelling runtime for this usecase.
Abstract - The Scala Center was a mentor organization in Google Summer of Code 2023, which funds students to work on open source projects. In this series of lightning talks, our students will share their projects, which spanned data visualization, networking, the Scala 3 compiler, and educational materials.