Signals and Threads
Listen in on Jane Street’s Ron Minsky as he has conversations with engineers who are working on everything from clock synchronization to reliable multicast, build systems to reconfigurable hardware.
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- Sep 23, 2026
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- Apple #115 · US
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- Sep 2, 2026
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Learning Goals and the Goals of Learning: Teaching in the Age of AI with Aaron Bauer (opens the original)
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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, he taught computer science at Carleton College, including four straight terms online during the pandemic. In this episode, Ron and Aaron discuss what it takes to teach engineering inside a company with its own language, its own version control, and its own editors, and what changes when an LLM can
Wrestling the world into rows with Eric Mannes (opens the original)
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"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 commodities trader and now helping lead the firm's alternative data team. In this episode, Eric and Ron talk about what it takes to turn messy external data into datasets a trading strategy can rely on. Along the way, they cover the day oil futures settled at a nega
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Apple #115 · US
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