The Network as a Program with Nate Foster
Nate Foster is a professor at EPFL in Switzerland in the Networked Systems Abstractions Lab, and a visiting researcher at Jane Street on the Networking team. In this episode, he and Ron consider what ...
1 Jun 1h 34min
Why Testing is Hard and How to Fix it with Will Wilson
Will Wilson is the founder and CEO of Antithesis, which is trying to change how people test software. The idea is that you run your application inside a special hypervisor environment that intelligent...
17 Mar 1h 48min
Why ML Needs a New Programming Language with Chris Lattner
Chris Lattner is the creator of LLVM and led the development of the Swift language at Apple. With Mojo, he’s taking another big swing: How do you make the process of getting the full power out of mode...
3 Sep 20251h 12min
The Thermodynamics of Trading with Daniel Pontecorvo
Daniel Pontecorvo runs the “physical engineering” team at Jane Street. This group blends architecture, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and construction management to build functional p...
25 Jul 202558min
Building Tools for Traders with Ian Henry
Ian Henry started his career at Warby Parker and Trello, building consumer apps for millions of users. Now he writes high-performance tools for a small set of experts on Jane Street’s options desk. In...
28 Mai 20251h 19min
Finding Signal in the Noise with In Young Cho
In Young Cho thought she was going to be a doctor but fell into a trading internship at Jane Street. Now she helps lead the research group’s efforts in machine learning. In this episode, In Young and ...
12 Mar 202559min
The Uncertain Art of Accelerating ML Models with Sylvain Gugger
Sylvain Gugger is a former math teacher who fell into machine learning via a MOOC and became an expert in the low-level performance details of neural networks. He’s now on the ML infrastructure team a...
14 Okt 20241h 6min
Solving Puzzles in Production with Liora Friedberg
Liora Friedberg is a Production Engineer at Jane Street with a background in economics and computer science. In this episode, Liora and Ron discuss how production engineering blends high-stakes puzzle...
7 Okt 202453min
