Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLearning Goals and the Goals of Learning: Teaching in the Age of AI with Aaron Bauer
Episode 30
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 oth…
18 hours ago
Wrestling the world into rows with Eric Mannes
Episode 29
"Alternative data" is Wall Street's name for information that comes from non-traditional sources: satellite photos of parking lots, credit card panel…
3 weeks ago
Building a data warehouse from scratch with Jacob Baskin
Episode 28
In university Jacob Baskin studied at the intersection of computer science and economics, thinking about systems that incentivize people to express t…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
The Network as a Program with Nate Foster
Episode 27
Nate Foster is a professor at EPFL in Switzerland in the Networked Systems Abstractions Lab, and a visiting researcher at Jane Street on the Networki…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Why Testing is Hard and How to Fix it with Will Wilson
Episode 26
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 insid…
6 months ago
Why ML Needs a New Programming Language with Chris Lattner
Episode 25
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 mak…
1 year ago
The Thermodynamics of Trading with Daniel Pontecorvo
Episode 24
Daniel Pontecorvo runs the “physical engineering” team at Jane Street. This group blends architecture, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering…
1 year, 1 month ago
Building Tools for Traders with Ian Henry
Episode 23
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 sma…
1 year, 3 months ago
Finding Signal in the Noise with In Young Cho
Episode 22
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 …
1 year, 6 months ago
The Uncertain Art of Accelerating ML Models with Sylvain Gugger
Episode 21
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…
1 year, 11 months ago