Writing, Technically with James Somers

Signals and Threads by Jane Street

Sep 1, 202101:00:58Technology

James Somers is Jane Street’s writer-in-residence, splitting his time between English and OCaml, and helping to push forward all sorts of efforts around knowledge-sharing at Jane Street. In this episode, James and Ron ta...

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