Solving Puzzles in Production with Liora Friedberg

Signals and Threads by Jane Street

Oct 7, 202400:53:50Technology

Liora Friedberg is a Production Engineer at Jane Street with a background in economics and computer science. In this episode, Liora and Ron discuss how production engineering blends high-stakes puzzle solving with though...

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