Explore a 42-minute conference talk from Strange Loop Conference on "Function Passing Style: Typed, Distributed Functional Programming" presented by Heather Miller. Dive into a new paradigm of asynchronous and distributed programming that combines recent advances in type systems research with new Scala language features. Learn how to pass safe functions to distributed, stationary, immutable data in stateless containers, and discover how lazy combinators can eliminate intermediate data structures. Understand the benefits of moving computation to data in big-data applications, and gain insights into distributable lambdas and types. The talk covers topics such as actor systems, silos, spores, fault tolerance, and performance intuition, providing a comprehensive overview of this innovative approach to distributed functional programming.