Arto's Talks
My recent presentations & interviews, also on SpeakerDeck.
- Interview on the Rowshan Podcast
Rowshan Podcast, September 12, 2026
My conversation with Mehran Rowshan on the Rowshan Podcast, "School Teaches Obedience, Not Intelligence": dropping out of school, dropping in on university, homeschooling, self-learning, Dubai, and AI privacy. (1h12m)
- Roaring Bitmaps at the AI Paper Reading Club
AI Paper Reading Club (Week 14), May 4, 2026
My reading of Daniel Lemire's Roaring Bitmaps papers, with a sneak peek at how we use compressed bitsets at ASIMOV to power complex on-device queries on large social graphs.
- ASIMOV Protocol on NEAR DevHub Live #39
NEAR DevHub Live #39 (February 2025), February 20, 2025
My ASIMOV Protocol primer on NEAR DevHub Live #39: enriching user-owned AI with high-quality structured, linked, and verified knowledge—and how the neurosymbolic synthesis of LLMs with knowledge graphs enables trustworthy and interoperable AI.
- ASIMOV Protocol at the NEAR Town Hall
NEAR Town Hall (February 2025), February 6, 2025
My ASIMOV Protocol sneak peek on the NEAR Town Hall: enriching user-owned AI with high-quality structured, linked, and verified knowledge in order to realize the promise of the neurosymbolic synthesis.
- Interview with The National
March 18, 2024
My interview with The National, a leading English-language print newspaper in the United Arab Emirates.
- Interview with AI Time Journal
December 1, 2023
My interview with AI Time Journal, touching on privacy and on-device AI, open publication instead of patents, building a dream team, fostering a culture of extreme ownership, and more.
- Meet the Team: Arto Bendiken
March 23, 2023
My interview for the Meet the Team blog series, published on the Aurora Labs blog.
- Humans of NEAR: Arto Bendiken
February 16, 2021
My interview for the Humans of NEAR blog series, published on the NEAR Protocol ecosystem blog.
- Building Arweave Smart Contracts with Clarity
Arweave Hack & Tell, November 11, 2020
I present and discuss my work on Sworn, the Clarity compiler for SmartWeave.
- Stacks Grants Demo Day
Stacks Grants Demo Day, October 30, 2020
I present my work on Clarc, the Clarity compiler for the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM).
- Cypherpunk Bitstream: Pandemic II
Cypherpunk Bitstream 0x08 — Police State, March 29, 2020
My guest appearance on a special episode of the Cypherpunk Bitstream podcast regarding the coronavirus pandemic of 2020. (4h27m)
- Cypherpunk Bitstream: Pandemic I
Cypherpunk Bitstream 0x07, March 16, 2020
My guest appearance on a special episode of the Cypherpunk Bitstream podcast regarding the coronavirus pandemic of 2020. (2h58m)
- Make Your Own Neural Network with Ruby
If.rb Meetup, March 6, 2019
How to build a neural network from scratch to recognize handwritten numbers with excellent accuracy.
- Building a Home Security System with Elixir and Nerves
Pivorak Conference 2.0, February 1, 2019
How to get started with Nerves by building a home security system running on a Raspberry Pi.
- In Search of Silver Bullets for Polyglots
Pivorak 33, April 20, 2018
An examination of some force multipliers to reduce the cognitive load of polyglot programming.
- A Post-Libertarian Realpolitik
Hackers Congress Paralelní Polis 2017 (HCPP17), October 8, 2017
My talk at the Hackers Congress Paralelní Polis 2017 (HCPP17) conference.
- Interactive Robotics with Elixir and Nerves
Pivorak 21, March 24, 2017
An introduction to the Nerves embedded framework based on a live-action wargame involving drones.