Listen "245: TZ Discussion - The Two-Sigma Problem"
Episode Synopsis
Justin and Jason talk about bringing on a potential marketing partner for AnyFu, why Justin may buy some Twitter shares, Jason's investment thesis and why he believes Apple is reverting to the mean, Google’s mystery barges, Jason's post on teaching kids how to code, Nitrous.io, the audio book Masters of Doom, the movies WarGames, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Enders Game, the surprising momentum of the Jason's posts How to Increase Your Luck Surface Area and Why I Quit Algorithmic Trading to Do Web Startups, motivations for contributing to open source projects, how listener James Jensen taught himself electronics and designed his own circuit board on Upverter, dark silicon, memristers, Darpa's analog computer initiative and spintronics, how IQ doesn’t appear to be set in stone and why watching TV probably doesn’t make you dumber, the Flynn effect and James Flynn’s TED Talk, the relationship of working memory to IQ, how Jason embedded Sandy's voice into a trading system's audible alerts, wireless devices powered by ambient backscatter rather than batteries, how US hypocrisy has come to light as a result of the Manning and Snowden revelations, combining mastery learning with the flipped classroom approach and Bloom’s two-sigma problem.
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