Podcasts about quantopian

We are on the verge of massive change where innovations in mobile, digital money and machine learning are changing how we move money and manage our finances. An expert on these technologies is Alex Rampell, who plays a significant role in building the future of financial services. A General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, Alex also serves on the board of Branch, Brightside, Descript, Divvy, Earnin, FlyHomes, Loft, Mercury, PeerStreet, Point, Propel, Sentilink, Super Evil Mega Corp, Transferwise, and Very Good Security. Alex additionally led the firm's investments in OpenDoor ($OPEN), Plaid, Quantopian (acquired by Robinhood), and Rival (acquired by LiveNation). Prior to joining the firm, Alex co-founded multiple companies, including Affirm ($AFRM), which he co-founded with Max Levchin, FraudEliminator (acquired by McAfee in 2006), Point, TrialPay (acquired by Visa in 2015), TXN (acquired by Envestnest in 2019), and Yub (acquired by Coupons.com in 2013). Join Willy Walker and Alex Rampell on this week's Walker Webcast as they explore the ins and outs of fintech, the right mindset in approaching investments, censorship-resistant technology, lessons from a dental software story, the future of financial services, and so much more. Willy invites Alex to share his Andover boarding school experience, getting to Harvard and starting his little software business when students are prohibited from doing it from their dorm room. "It was a part-time thing, but I used to sell software on the internet in the 90s when this was not really a mainstream thing, which ironically made it much easier to do because you were not competing with millions of software developers around the world." From being an undergrad to jumping right into entrepreneurship, Alex attributes luck, common sense, and not being afraid to fail as his ingredients of starting a company in college and making his way to success. Alex emphasizes the importance of empathy and a grounded understanding, especially in venture capitalism. He brings this mindset and experience to Andreessen Horowitz as an outstanding investor. He also uses an example of looking at the video of Tiger Woods as a kid hitting his 25-yard drive. "One can think, hey, I'm 40, I can hit a drive much further than that little kid, I'm much better than him." or "Wow if that kid keeps it up, he could win 15 majors in the future." In a venture mindset, you have to default to that latter category and realize that you're not looking at Baby Tiger Woods; you're looking at something that will not work. But you can't judge it on the present because it is an extraordinarily easy way to never really win." Tune in to this new episode of the Walker Webcast — FinTech and Venture Capital Alex Rampell, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz.

Alex Rampell is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) where he focuses on financial services. He serves on the board of Branch, Brightside, Descript, Divvy, Earnin, FlyHomes, Loft, Mercury, PeerStreet, Point, Propel, Sentilink, Super Evil Mega Corp, Transferwise, and Very Good Security. Alex additionally led the firm's investments in OpenDoor ($OPEN), Plaid, Quantopian (acquired by Robinhood), and Rival (acquired by LiveNation).Prior to joining the firm, Alex co-founded multiple fintech companies including Affirm ($AFRM), which he co-founded with Max Levchin, FraudEliminator (acquired by McAfee in 2006), Point, TrialPay (acquired by Visa in 2015), TXN (acquired by Envestnest in 2019), and Yub (acquired by Coupons.com in 2013).————————————————————————— For podcast transcripts and show notes, visit salt.org/talksWatch this video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/cjgEDJqdn4MDeveloped, created and produced by SALT Venture Group, LLC. Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci.

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¿Conocéis a alguien que haya ganado cientos de miles de euros en competiciones de inteligencia artificial? Antes de esta semana yo no, pero ahora sí; y esa persona es Jordi Villar, que ha competido en dos plataformas de trading algorítmico ganando en total $350.000 tal cual describe en su artículo https://jordivillar.com/pursuing-non-conventional/ Jordi desvela que sus algoritmos encierran una sencillez casi paradójica y nos explica cómo funcionan Numerai y Quantopian.

If you've ever been interested or curious about quant finance - which is the the next frontier of investing and the nexus of top finance & technology, this is the discussion for you. Even if you haven't thought about it yet, you will still find it fascinating. This week's guest is ridiculously accomplished - an Olympic (Rio 2016) & World-championship-level athlete, while concurrently, building his equally successful finance career in quant at Citadel, one of the foremost hedge funds in the world. It also has amazing lessons on developing the mindset to become the best at anything - be it in business, career, sports or life. 04:25 Pursuing his Olympic aspirations05:00 How he got into Quantopian - applied to 8 start-ups via Angelist, knew very little about quant07:00 Got the opportunity to be a part of Quantopian's push to become a crowd-sourced hedge fund & building a HF product from ground up08:30 His experience at Citadel10:00 Quant finance more of a tech job than a finance job11:00 Feedback cycle from quant investing product is quick12:30 Working with data fits well 13:30 Coming to Citadel was a game-changer, realized it was possible to have an edge, have alpha14:30 What is quantitative finance? Deep-dive into what a quant does (Building & Weighting Datasets, Fitting / portfolio construction, Predictions, Mapping to Positions)20:00 Why Citadel? To learn, you have to work with the best. World-class education in quant. Citadel is a pioneer in so many areas23:30 Advantage of scale will be critical in next 5 years26:00 Looking for an edge in quant & trading, comparisons to rowing29:30 Need Mindset that things are out of your control. It's just part of the game. 35:00 How to balance demands of Olympic athlete and working at Citadel35:30 Dealing with disappointment of missing London Olympics in 201238:30 What has helped me accelerate in my career: Be fearless enough to dig into the details and be self-sufficient to figure out tough problems42:30 Common misconception: You don't have to be a STEM major to be in quant or in technical roles. Don't be intimidated by engineering. If you like it, learn more about it and inch closer to those types of roles45:30 Interviews at Citadel: What he looks for in behavioral cues in interviews, why communication skills are critical even for technical interviews49:00 Two main tracks in Quant: Quant Development (QD) and Quant Research (QR)52:30 Rapid Fire: Favorite Book (Man Who Solved the Markets, Flash Boys); and more

This episode is brought to you by TIKR. Join the free beta today at TIKR.com/hive. Our 30th episode was one of the most esoteric conversations yet. This week, I had the pleasure of chatting with Ryan Doherty. Ryan was a former professional baseball pitcher (and at one point, the tallest professional player ever) turned professional volleyball player. Ryan went from never playing volleyball to beating gold medalist team Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers. We spend over an hour discussing passion, competition, mental edge and process improvement. I had a blast. Here's the outline: [1:30] Who is Ryan Doherty [7:19] Meeting Hall of Famer Randy Johnson [10:58] Ryan’s Dark Days & Identity Crisis [20:29] Leaving For CA w/ $5K and Nothing Else [26:29] Burnout & Losing The Love of The Game [29:55] The Pressure of Being The Weak Link [34:32] Lessons from Traveling >20 Countries [40:55] Ryan’s Start in Investing [46:26] How Ryan’s Investment Philosophy Changed [50:05] 2020 Doesn’t Look Like The CFA Exams [54:54] Competitiveness as an Edge [57:41] How To Keep Your Ego in Check [65:00] Figure Out What You’re Working On [68:00] Progression Through Self-Reflection [71:10] How To Track Your Investment Progress [74:35] Learning Python for Software Investing [78:10] Closing Questions If you want to learn more about Ryan, follow him on Twitter @ryandoherty47 Also, if you want to learn more about Python for Investing, check out Quantopian.

Diesmal unterhalten uns mit Thomas Wiecki über Quantitative Finance, Probabilistic Programming und die Corona-Pandemie. Thomas hat übrigens einen eigenen Podcast namens PyData Deep Dive den wir wärmstens empfehlen  können. So ab Minute 36 wird das mit den Audio-Knacksern übrigens auch besser :). Shownotes Unsere E-Mail für Fragen, Anregungen & Kommentare: hallo@python-podcast.de Quantitative Finance Quantopian Backtesting Quantopian auf github zipline (backtesting library) Linear Regression statsmodels ARIMA Probabilistic Programming pymc Markov chain Monte Carlo The Best Of Both Worlds: Hierarchical Linear Regression in PyMC3 Bayesian Statistics COVID-19 Thomas covid-19 repository Some covid19 dashboards Compartmental models in epidemiology Student's t-distribution Using epidemiological models is like counting spoons  tweet by @nntaleb "Thousands of lines of undocumented c code" tweet by @neil_ferguson Johns Hopkins Daten aus WHO Pdfs European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control Our world in data (coronavirus) Hackathon Coronavirus COVID19 Global Forecasting Kaggle-Competition COVID-19 Open Research Dataset Challenge Kaggle-Competition CCC Cert Informationssammlung CERT Bulletin Datasette Datasette Query für Italien auf der covid-19 datasette Glitch Öffentliches Tag auf konektom

I bet you already heard about hierarchical models, or multilevel models, or varying-effects models — yeah this type of models has a lot of names! Many people even turn to Bayesian tools to build _exactly_ these models. But what are they? How do you build and use a hierarchical model? What are the tricks and classical traps? And even more important: how do you _interpret_ a hierarchical model? In this episode, Thomas Wiecki will come to the rescue and explain what multilevel models are, how to build them, what their powers are… but also why you should be very careful when building them… Does the name Thomas Wiecki ring a bell? Probably because he’s the host and creator of the PyData Deep Dive Podcast, where he interviews open-source contributors from the Python and Data Science worlds! Thomas is also the VP of Data Science at Quantopian, a crowd-sourced quantitative investment firm that encourages people everywhere to write investment algorithms. Finally, Thomas is a longtime Bayesian and core-developer of PyMC3, a fantastic python package to do probabilistic programming in Python. On his blog, he publishes tutorial articles and explores new ideas such as Bayesian Deep Learning. Caring a lot about open-source software sustainability, he puts all he’s up to on his Patreon page, that you’ll find in the show notes. Our theme music is « Good Bayesian », by Baba Brinkman (feat MC Lars and Mega Ran). Check out his awesome work at https://bababrinkman.com/ ! Links from the show: Thomas’ series on Hierarchical Regression: https://twiecki.io/blog/2013/08/12/bayesian-glms-1/ Non-centered Parametrization with PyMC3: https://twiecki.io/blog/2017/02/08/bayesian-hierchical-non-centered/ Using Bayesian Decision Making: https://twiecki.io/blog/2019/01/14/supply_chain/ PyMC3 - Probabilistic Programming in Python: https://docs.pymc.io/ Symbolic PyMC: https://pymc-devs.github.io/symbolic-pymc/ PyData Deep Dive Podcast: https://pydata-podcast.com Thomas on Twitter: https://twitter.com/twiecki?lang=en Thomas on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/twiecki Thomas on GitHub: https://github.com/twiecki Alex’s Hierarchical Model of Elections in Paris: https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/AlexAndorra/pollsposition_models/master?urlpath=%2Fvoila%2Frender%2Fdistrict-level%2Fmunic_model_analysis.ipynb --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/learn-bayes-stats/message

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with impressive fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the remarkable stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech.   You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio.   In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Tom Ryan, partner at Anthemis.   Anthemis is a leading global venture investment platform with over half a billion in AUM.  A few of their portfolio companies are past guests on the show, such as Farhan Ahmad from Bento for Business, Richard Arundel from CurrencyCloud, James Waldinger from Artivest, Jon Stein from Betterment, Rhian Horgan from Kindur, Fawce from Quantopian and Chris Bruno from Rally Road.      Tune in and Listen.     Subscribe now on iTunes, Google , Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear next Tuesday’s all new episode with James Haluszczak from SteelBridge Labs.       About the host:   John, is the host of the ‘Bank On It’ podcast recorded onsite in Wall Street at OpenFin, and 'Before the A' podcast recorded onsite in Flat Iron at Barclays/Techstars Rise NYC.   He’s a highly sought after fintech, VC and financial services industry enthusiast and connector. He’s in the center of the fintech ecosystem, keeping current with the ever-innovating industry.  Stay in the fintech know by subscribing to ‘Bank On It’, ‘Before the A’  Follow John on LinkedIn, Twitter, Medium  

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the amazing stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can Subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher and iHeartRadio In this episode John talks with Fawce, Co Founder & CEO of Quantopian.  This is one of a few interviews that we recorded on site during Boston fintech week.  Fawce talked on how he went from working in his shed to raising $48,000,000 in venture funding.  It all started with a question that he asked himself constantly and couldn't not answer which was, what if firms could break the 150 Quant limit which seems to be a long lasting self imposed ceiling, instead, what if they could have 10,000?  The implications could change everything. This guiding question if answered could empower firms to get thousands of the smartest people in the world to focus on a particular firms biggest challenges.   Fawce added, if you find a massive inefficiency in a particular model you start asking the right questions, as an example in his scenario; “how do you get the smartest engineers to join your community”? Asking the right questions focuses creates clarity of purpose, something Fawce is full of.  Fawce is a great example of trying to answer the ‘right' questions at the ‘right' time and having the clarity of purpose to systematically collapse the inefficiency in a model. His views on building a company in this manner and the story behind it all is interesting. Tune in and Listen.   Fawce LinkedIn - Twitter Quantopian LinkedIn - Twitter   Subscribe now to hear Thursday's interview with Ron Shevlin, Christina Qi, Jennifer Lum and Mario Hernandez during Boston Fintech Week.  .   About the host: John is the host of the 2x weekly "Bank On It” podcast recorded onsite from the CG offices and a highly sought after fintech, VC and financial services industry enthusiast and connector. He's in the center of the fintech ecosystem keeping current with the ever - innovating industry. Follow John on LinkedIn, Twitter or Medium

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs through conversation uncovers the amazing stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can Subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher and iHeartRadio In this episode John talks with Mike Massaro, CEO of Flywire.  This is one of a few interviews that we recorded on site during Boston fintech week.  In this episode Mike shared a story that is basically every business leader's worst nightmare.  After burning through $6,000,000 and having the company close to bottoming out, Mike was extremely close to relaying that information to one of his most important stakeholders; his wife. Luckily (luck being defined as dedication and focus) and against all odds he was able to raise an A round that kept the company afloat and on track to the giant it is today.  Mike admitted that it was mis-allocation of funds that was the result of chasing too many opportunities and not focusing fully on the missions/goals that would make a difference. Most investors would not fund this company given the state it was in at that time, but Spark Capital and F-Prime believed in Flywire and did. There's a fascinating story behind it all and was discussed during this episode. Tune in and Listen.   Mike Massaro LinkedIn - Twitter Flywire LinkedIn - Twitter   Subscribe now to hear Tuesday's interview with Fawce from Quantopian during Boston Fintech Week.  .   About the host: John is the host of the 2x weekly "Bank On It” podcast recorded onsite from the CG offices and a highly sought after fintech, VC and financial services industry enthusiast and connector. He's in the center of the fintech ecosystem keeping current with the ever - innovating industry. Follow John on LinkedIn, Twitter or Medium    

Good morning listeners, Today is a very special episode. I am here live with Jared Broad, the founder of Quantconnect. Jared and his team are building a platform for anyone wanting to build quantitative trading strategies and a marketplace for anyone to license their trading strategies using alpha streams. They have done the hard part by building the infrastructure for quantitative traders and a vibrant community to share and learn from each other. We discuss the Quantconnect platform, his story and experiences, and how Quantconnect got started. Below is an excerpt of our conversation about where engineers find inspiration. “That is the beauty about having a big diverse community. If you understand philosophy and psychology, then you will be using your philosophy and psychology experiences to pull into your trading strategy. Maybe you’re a math grad and you will be using mathematical techniques and thinking about things with hard numbers. Everybody got different inspirations by their experiences. That is kind of the beauty of a community of people is that they all have different experiences and they come together to design it in the Quantconnect ecosystem.” 1:14 – Tell me how it got started. What was your background and what led you to create Quantconnect? 4:38 – Can you tell me more about your experience in Chile? 6:13 – How was the startup culture? 7:20 – What is Quantconnect and how are you guys different from the others like Quantopian and Numerai? 9:07 – Can you tell me more about the LEAN program? 12:40 – Can you tell me more about the alpha streams and are your competitors doing anything similar to that? 15:36 – What are alpha signals and can you give examples and strategies that have generated alpha? 17:26 – How do you benchmark those signals? 18:30 – Where do engineers find inspiration for their strategies? 23:47 – Can you tell me about the Jupyter notebook? 26:20 – Do you personally subscribe to a particular investment philosophy and how would you characterize it? 28:33 – Do you seek any inspiration from others investors? 29:11 – What is your objective with Quantconnect? 30:03 – What are your favorite books? You can find more information: https://www.quantconnect.com/ Enjoy and thanks for the listen!

As people begin to gain access to information that was previously left to only trained specialists, a new set of asset classes are being created -- and they are changing the way we think about everything from banking to customizing portfolios and more. But if investing (and most decision making, in fact) is about navigating uncertainty, what can new tools and models do -- and not do -- for investors both big and small? Recorded at a16z's Summit event in November 2017, John Fawcett, CEO of Quantopian and Joshua Levin, co-founder and chief strategy officer of OpenInvest discuss, in conversation with a16z's Angela Strange, new models of investing for both retail and institutional investors... thanks to new technologies. The views expressed here are those of the individual AH Capital Management, L.L.C. (“a16z”) personnel quoted and are not the views of a16z or its affiliates. Certain information contained in here has been obtained from third-party sources, including from portfolio companies of funds managed by a16z. While taken from sources believed to be reliable, a16z has not independently verified such information and makes no representations about the enduring accuracy of the information or its appropriateness for a given situation. This content is provided for informational purposes only, and should not be relied upon as legal, business, investment, or tax advice. You should consult your own advisers as to those matters. References to any securities or digital assets are for illustrative purposes only, and do not constitute an investment recommendation or offer to provide investment advisory services. Furthermore, this content is not directed at nor intended for use by any investors or prospective investors, and may not under any circumstances be relied upon when making a decision to invest in any fund managed by a16z. (An offering to invest in an a16z fund will be made only by the private placement memorandum, subscription agreement, and other relevant documentation of any such fund and should be read in their entirety.) Any investments or portfolio companies mentioned, referred to, or described are not representative of all investments in vehicles managed by a16z, and there can be no assurance that the investments will be profitable or that other investments made in the future will have similar characteristics or results. A list of investments made by funds managed by Andreessen Horowitz (excluding investments and certain publicly traded cryptocurrencies/ digital assets for which the issuer has not provided permission for a16z to disclose publicly) is available at https://a16z.com/investments/. Charts and graphs provided within are for informational purposes solely and should not be relied upon when making any investment decision. Past performance is not indicative of future results. The content speaks only as of the date indicated. Any projections, estimates, forecasts, targets, prospects, and/or opinions expressed in these materials are subject to change without notice and may differ or be contrary to opinions expressed by others. Please see https://a16z.com/disclosures for additional important information.

David Gogel (WG'18) speaks with Charles Birnbaum (WG'11), Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners. BVP is a multi-stage venture capital firm that invests across enterprise, consumer and healthcare. Charles focuses on financial services, consumer and education investments. David and Charles speak about building investment and industry theses, opportunities in the cryptocurrency market, trends in insurtech, and the evolution of the tech-enabled specialty industry. Charles is a partner in Bessemer's New York office. He focuses on financial services, consumer and education investments. Charles is actively involved with many BVP portfolio companies, including Main Street Hub, BrightBytes, Bread Finance, and August Home. He currently serves on the board of Zopa, United Capital, Fabric, Spruce and Eave and was involved in the exits of Yodle, 2U, and Kroll Bond Ratings. Charles’ startup experience has been important to BVP’s early stage financial services portfolio, which includes high-potential companies such as Betterment and Quantopian. Prior to joining BVP in 2013, Charles spent more than three years at Foursquare, the location-based mobile application company based in New York, helping create and bring to market some of Foursquare’s first merchant-facing tools. As the company grew, Charles became the director of mobile and international business development, where he focused on building strategic partnerships with carriers and OEMs while leading the company’s business development efforts in key growth markets such as Brazil, Russia and Turkey. Prior to Foursquare, Charles spent six years in investment banking and equity capital markets focusing on the technology, media and telecom sectors, and executed more than 50 equity and equity-linked public offerings. Charles holds a Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School, a Master of Arts in international studies from the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor of Arts in history from Northwestern University.

Alex Rampell is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz where he leads the firms fintech investments and serves on the boards of Branch, PeerStreet, Point, and Quantopian. Prior to joining a16z, he was the CEO and co-founder of TrialPay, a leading transactional advertising and payments company with 100 employees and over $300M in revenue. TrialPay was acquired by Visa in 2015. Previously, Alex cofounded FraudEliminator, the first consumer anti-phishing company, which merged into SiteAdvisor and was acquired by McAfee for $75M in 2006. Prior to joining the firm, Alex had been an active angel investor with the likes of Pinterest, Bloomreach, SiftScience among many others in his portfolio and served as an advisor to the SV Angel fund. He also co-founded three other companies: TXN, Point, and Affirm, with Max Levchin. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How did Alex make the move from serial entrepreneur with numerous successful exits to General Partner @ a16z? 2.) Question from Chris Dixon: What were the key takeaways for Alex from his time in operations? Having been both entrepreneur and VC, how does Alex view the continuous struggle between innovation and distribution? Can you succeed with only one? 3.) How does Alex believe the new generation of large incumbents are acting in the market? Why does he believe that a counter-revolutionary strike from them would not be atypical? 4.) How does Alex really define "data network effects"? How does Alex look to analyse them effectively? How does Alex believe that startups can use inflection points in the sales process to enter an incumbent heavy market? 5.) How does Alex view the rise of ICOs? Does Alex share Charlie Lee's concerns that they are the most concerning element of the crypto world? What framework does Alex use to determine whether an applications is optimised through centralised or decentralised databases? Why does Alex believe that most ICOs are ridiculous? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Alex’s Fave Book: The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka Alex’s Fave Blog: Chris Dixon Alex’s Most Recent Investment: Propel As always you can follow Harry, The Twenty Minute VC and Alex on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Snapchat here for mojito madness and all things 20VC. Available in carry-on and check-in sizes, Raden is the case for better, smarter travel. By pairing the lightest and most durable materials with technology, travelers can charge their devices on the go, weigh, and track their cases. Visit Raden.com to use code 20VC at checkout. With purchase, receive credit towards Tablet Hotels for the next year. If a UK listener, head over to Selfridge’s and shop Raden today. The Simba Hybrid. The most advanced mattress in the world. With a unique combination of two thousand five hundred conical pocket springs and responsive memory foam, it offers the perfect support for two people. A mattress that responds to you and your partner’s sleeping patterns. Delivered free, with a one hundred night sleep trial, free returns and a ten year guarantee. Start your free trial at simbasleep.com

Adam and Matt talk to Karen Rubin, the VP of Product for Quantopian, about roadmaps, curating feedback, dealing with engineers, and you know, lots of other random things including games.

Because of its easy learning curve and broad extensibility Python has found its way into the realm of algorithmic trading at Quantopian. In this episode we spoke with Scott Sanderson about what algorithmic trading is, how it differs from high frequency trading, and how they leverage Python for empowering everyone to try their hand at it.

Justin and Jason discuss the danger of moving activities from the "get to" column to the "have to" column, Colby's dramatic improvement in baseball, why he's quitting soccer and the unreasonable effectiveness of private instruction, the show that didn't happen, the summer plans for Catalyst, the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset and the founder who was tragically killed, learning to code using Treehouse, how NASA is funding a 3D printer for space, participating in Soylent fundraing campaign, how Jason is helping an AI trading company find a technical partner, Justin's M-trade strategy and how to test it using Quantopian, how Jason and Colby watched the Robo Rally at the recent Pasadena Engineering and Science Expo, using NXC (Not eXactly C) to program Mindstorm robots in Catalyst, why Jason has fallen embarrassingly behind on his secret project known as Vortex, how Mecruit is stalling out, the Node.js differ module that Jason and Guyon created for Uber and the similarity of NPM modules to Win32 COM libraries, how Rossi's E-Cat LENR (low energy nuclear reactor) might actually be for real, Charlie Munger's psychology of human misjudgment talk, how cognitive biases cause people to misjudge global risks, how Justin is a now a proud share of exactly one share of TSLA, why Justin put Pluggio on Flippa, how Jason burned himself out by working on too many projects, whether our own humanity could ultimately constrain the advancement of technology, Jason's theory of how the human race will gradually reengineer itself over time, why Jason recommends the show House of Cards and why Justin recommends the show Parenthood, and the discovery of a frozen mammoth in Siberia.