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1:06:39ENWhy Jane Street Uses OCamlA Jane Street talk explains how functional programming and static types support reliable trading software, and examines the costs of choosing a less common language.
23:58ENEffective ML: Errors, Abstraction and Managing ComplexityA Jane Street engineer discusses explicit failure, boilerplate, type-system restraint and the practical role of side effects.
1:04:56ENYaron Minsky on Incremental: From Research Idea to Production LibraryYaron Minsky · Jane StreetA history of the algorithms, memory problems and performance tradeoffs behind Jane Street’s OCaml library for self-adjusting computations.
1:12:41ENRon Minsky on Trading, Correctness and Jane Street’s Shift to OCamlYaron Minsky · Jane StreetA Jane Street technologist explains the market-making business and why readability, types and predictable performance shaped the firm’s choice of OCaml.
51:35ENYaron Minsky on Effective ML: Interfaces, Invariants and Code ReadersYaron Minsky · Jane StreetIn the first part of a 2011 Harvard lecture, Jane Street’s Yaron Minsky shows how OCaml interfaces and types can make long-lived code easier to understand and change.
10:20ENHow C++ Is Standardized: Votes, Consensus and the Move to a Three-Year Release CycleGuest Bjarne Stroustrup · Host Lex FridmanBjarne Stroustrup explains how the ISO committee works, why C++0x slipped to C++11, and how shorter cycles made C++14, C++17 and C++20 arrive on time.
10:24ENConcepts: How C++ Finally Got Compile-Time Constraints on TemplatesGuest Bjarne Stroustrup · Host Lex FridmanBjarne Stroustrup explains what C++ concepts are, why they are real and shippable today, and why it took decades to get them right.
40:25ENA Language That Knows the World: Stephen Wolfram on Computable KnowledgeHost Lex FridmanIn this clip from the Lex Fridman Podcast, Stephen Wolfram explains what makes the Wolfram Language different from ordinary programming languages and how it grew into a computable knowledge base, from Wolfram Alpha to computational contracts.
57:15ENInside Torch and Autograd: How Deep Learning Libraries Compute GradientsHost Lex FridmanAlex Wiltschko of Twitter walks through Lua Torch, then explains automatic differentiation and what separates modern deep learning frameworks.
14:47ENBuild Your Own Types: What Bjarne Stroustrup Learned from Simula, Fortran and LispGuest Bjarne Stroustrup · Host Lex FridmanThe creator of C++ traces how Simula's user-defined types shaped his language, and why he builds for constrained, long-lived systems.







