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Jane Street· 26. Okt. 2026Figgie Strategy: Reading Hands, Winning Majorities and Pricing CardsBradley, Mike · Jane StreetJane Street traders Bradley and Mike analyze three games to show how private information, market competition and timing affect card prices.
1:16:29ENJane Street· 26. Aug. 2026Grant Sanderson and Alok Puranik: Positional Encodings Through Group TheoryGrant Sanderson, Alok Puranik · 3Blue1BrownStarting with assumptions about attention, they derive matrix exponentials and connect rotations, decay and Jordan blocks to RoPE and ALiBi.
7:17ENJane Street· 13. Aug. 2024Erik and Martin Demaine on the Mathematics of Curved-Crease SculptureErik Demaine, Martin Demaine · MITThe MIT father-and-son collaborators turn paper folding into art and research, embedding puzzles and mathematical fonts in their sculpture Solve Me.
3:23ENJane Street· 8. Juni 2023Nitya on Training and Working as a Quantitative Trader at Jane StreetNitya · Jane StreetA trader on the New York international ETF desk describes the skills, training and collaboration involved in her work.
25:42ENJane Street· 8. Nov. 2022Graham and Andrea Work Through a Trading Mock InterviewMichael, Graham, Andrea · Jane StreetA 20-sided die game shows how a trading interview can develop through clarification, quantitative estimates and collaborative problem-solving.
11:41ENJane Street· 21. Juli 2020Five Ways to Calculate the Wait for a Successful ShotSawyer · Jane StreetA 20% success rate leads to an expected wait of five attempts—but two consecutive successes take 30. Explore the reasoning through series, recursion and a long-run argument.
10:32ENJane Street· 17. Juli 2020Real Numbers: Expected Time Between Exams and a Half-Court Shot ChallengeSawyer · Jane StreetSawyer solves an exam-scheduling problem in several ways, then asks how many basketball attempts it takes to make one shot or two in a row.
6:04ENJane Street· 14. Juli 2020Finals Week and the Expected Number of Snowboards UsedSawyer · Jane StreetSawyer poses a new exam-scheduling puzzle and uses indicator variables in two ways to solve the previous snowboard problem.
6:16ENJane Street· 10. Juli 2020Indicator Variables: Marching Bands and SnowboardsSawyer · Jane StreetSawyer uses linearity of expectation to count in-step rows, then poses a six-snowboard challenge.
9:40ENJane Street· 7. Juli 2020Real Numbers: A Marching Band Challenge, Expected Damage, and Bayes’ RuleSawyer · Jane StreetSawyer introduces a marching-band expected-value puzzle and uses linearity and Bayesian updating to solve a monster-attack problem.
10:08ENJane Street· 3. Juli 2020Expected Damage and a Golden-Ratio Window PuzzleSawyer · Jane StreetSawyer introduces expected value with an unknown video-game monster, then uses geometry to solve a painting-through-a-window problem.
7:55ENJane Street· 30. Juni 2020The Art Thief’s Window and a Toy Boat’s Return JourneySawyer · Jane StreetSawyer poses a geometric window puzzle and solves the previous episode’s river-crossing problem in two ways.
5:38ENJane Street· 26. Juni 2020Wavey’s Return: Solving a River-Crossing PuzzleSawyer · Jane StreetSawyer solves the first toy-boat crossing with a 5:3 speed ratio, then asks how the answer changes when the return journey starts 60 meters downstream.
6:37ENJane Street· 23. Juni 2020Crossing the River: A Toy Boat Puzzle and a Snow-Cone SolutionSawyer · Jane StreetA toy boat drifts downstream in a steady current. Sawyer poses a navigation puzzle and solves the previous episode’s cone-and-hemisphere problem.
3:35ENJane Street· 19. Juni 2020Snow Cones and Spheres: A Volume Solution and a New Geometry PuzzleSawyer · Jane StreetSawyer derives the height of a cone with the same volume as a hemisphere, then asks how to reshape the ice with minimal movement.
5:39ENJane Street· 16. Juni 2020A Snow Cone Geometry Puzzle and a Piggy Bank ProbabilitySawyer · Jane StreetSawyer poses a cone-design challenge and solves a conditional probability problem in two ways.
7:03ENJane Street· 12. Juni 2020Grandma’s Secret College Fund: A Bayes’ Theorem PuzzleSawyer · Jane StreetA random $20 bill reveals information about a hidden deposit. Sawyer poses the new puzzle and solves a DMV probability problem three ways.
7:23ENJane Street· 9. Juni 2020Bayes' Theorem and a Driver's Test Probability PuzzleSawyer · Jane StreetSawyer derives Bayes' theorem, poses a question about test-takers who studied, and solves an earlier card-game probability puzzle.
8:03ENJane Street· 6. Juni 2020Real Numbers: A Taxi Challenge and Two Ways to Calculate a Sleep ProbabilitySawyer · Jane StreetSawyer poses a consecutive-taxi puzzle and solves a five-night dog-sitting problem with a probability table and a counting argument.
6:50ENJane Street· 6. Juni 2020The Perils of Dogsitting: A Probability Warm-UpSawyer · Jane StreetSawyer introduces a five-night dogsitting puzzle and reviews independence, overlapping events and complements with coins and dice.
7:15ENJane Street· 6. Juni 2020A Balanced Game of War and the Probability of Three TaxisSawyer · Jane StreetSawyer introduces conditional probability through a card-game challenge, then solves an earlier six-car puzzle in two ways.
56:12ENJane Street· 16. Jan. 2018Echoes of Fourier: From Sound Waves to Fast ConvolutionChristopher HardinA practical introduction to Fourier transforms, convolution, and the mathematics of placing a recording in real or imagined acoustic spaces.