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1:08:43ENRon Minsky on Types and Why They Matter in SoftwareYaron Minsky · Jane StreetType systems can make programs faster, catch mistakes and guide large refactorings, but their value depends on the language and the work. Ron Minsky explains the trade-offs through practical examples.
1:09:24ENYaron Minsky on Effective ML: Writing OCaml for Code ReadersYaron Minsky · Jane StreetPractical lessons from Jane Street on using types, interfaces and abstraction to keep a large OCaml codebase understandable and correct.
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.