Learning Goals and the Goals of Learning: Teaching in the Age of AI with Aaron Bauer
Aaron Bauer is a software engineer and one of Jane Street's few developer educators—a role that splits his time between writing code and teaching other people how to write it. Before joining the firm,...
23 Sep 1h 36min
Wrestling the world into rows with Eric Mannes
"Alternative data" is Wall Street's name for information that comes from non-traditional sources: satellite photos of parking lots, credit card panels, weather forecasts. Eric Mannes has spent over a ...
2 Sep 1h 25min
Building a data warehouse from scratch with Jacob Baskin
In university Jacob Baskin studied at the intersection of computer science and economics, thinking about systems that incentivize people to express their true preferences. He put those ideas into prac...
24 Jun 1h 34min
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
