Signals and Threads
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| Oct 3 | #115 |
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Learning Goals and the Goals of Learning: Teaching in the Age of AI with Aaron Bauer
September 23, 2026 · 1 hr 37 minAaron 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, he taught computer science at Carleton…
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Wrestling the world into rows with Eric Mannes
September 2, 2026 · 1 hr 25 min"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 decade at Jane Street, first as a…
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Building a data warehouse from scratch with Jacob Baskin
June 24, 2026 · 1 hr 34 minIn 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 practice at Google, where he worked on ad…
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The Network as a Program with Nate Foster
June 1, 2026 · 1 hr 35 minNate 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 happens when you bring a software…
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Why Testing is Hard and How to Fix it with Will Wilson
March 17, 2026 · 1 hr 48 minWill 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 intelligently (and deterministically) explores the…
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Why ML Needs a New Programming Language with Chris Lattner
September 3, 2025 · 1 hr 13 minChris 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 modern GPUs productive and fun? In this…
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The Thermodynamics of Trading with Daniel Pontecorvo
July 25, 2025 · 59 minDaniel Pontecorvo runs the “physical engineering” team at Jane Street. This group blends architecture, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and construction management to build functional physical spaces. In this episode, Ron…
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Building Tools for Traders with Ian Henry
May 28, 2025 · 1 hr 20 minIan 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 this episode, Ron and Ian explore what…