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281: TZ Discussion - "Based" on a True Story May 23, 2015

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Justin and Jason discuss the technical issues of streaming the show using Periscope, the possible resurrection of Empath, Jason's advising CTO strategy, fear-based parenting, Justin's secret project and reserving a name in the app store, the Seasteading Institute, nature vs. nurture, the latest with Justin's "get fit" effort and Jason's injuries, the athletes who benefitted from Jason's vertical training protocol, Jason's spontaneous two-man TechZing Summit, the math team's performance at the LA Math Cup, when parents take things too seriously, teaching calculus to the math class and plans for the future, the latest with MV Code Club, the upcoming TV shows Limitless, Fear the Walking Dead and Mr. Robot, the inaccuracies of The Imitation Game and Argo, how the story behind the killing of Osama Bin Laden is a myth, the lie about how Syria used chemical weapons against rebel forces and how easily people are manipulated by the media, the TV show The Blacklist and thoughts on streaming with Periscope.

280: TZ Interview - Mike Taber / The Single Founder Handbook May 02, 2015

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Justin talks with Mike Taber author of The Single Founder Handbook

279: TZ Discussion - Death by Flying Tire Apr 21, 2015

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Justin and Jason discuss Jason's recent near-death experience and how his brother's childhood friend has a small part on The Walking Dead, the Reddit button, how Jason is trading coding hours for Robocraft hours with Colby, kids and electronics, the iWatch and why people are always checking their phones, the essence of peopling, automatic birthday wishes and thank yous on Facebook, why everything that can be automated eventually will be, Patrick McKenzie's new startup – Starfigher, remote working and productivity, the relationship between wealth, power and fame, the two federal agents who were indicted for stealing Bitcoins, the movie The Imitation Game, why the Caltech visit was postponed a week, negative social patterns and the heritability of personality traits, iZombie, how the editors of Basic and Applied Social Psychology are no longer accepting p-values, the Reproducibility Project, why null results tend not to be published as often, the latest with MVCC and Justin's new workout regime at CATZ.

278: TZ Discussion - Burger Meister, Meister Burger Apr 08, 2015

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Justin and Jason discuss Justin's recent purchasing debacles and his latest plan for getting healthy, the latest on Jason's various injuries, Justin as Burger Meister, Meister Burger, the math team's big success at Math Field Day, how Jason is connecting with Caltech’s Center for Teaching, Learning & Outreach, an update on the Battle Math card game, Justin's TechZing breakfast, how everyone is seemingly trying to dunk, the problem of forgetting what you’ve read, how to capture selected text in a Titanium webview, the return of The X-Files, The Walking Dead spinoff series, why Jason can't stomach shows like Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, why our brains love high ceilings, living off a dollar a day with Elon Musk and Tesla’s April Fool’s joke, the latest with MV Code Club, God’s Tweets, killing cancer cells with DNA nanobots, whether the human brain can ever fill up and the process of memory formation, recall and forgetting, why Jason is planning on cryogenically freezing himself, the new study that says it doesn't matter how much time you spend with your kids, how inequality is far worse than you think and the prospect of a mostly robotic future.

277: TZ Discussion - Select All Delete Mar 23, 2015

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Justin and Jason discuss the difficulty of finding a time to record the show, Justin's walking-desk disaster, his new secret project and his thoughts on using Titanium, the latest on the MVCC, Justin's movie concept, the show The 100, the roadblocks to getting God’s Tweets approved by the App Store, why you should build a Titanium app for Android and iOS at the same time, the benefits of decluttering your life, generating ten new ideas per day for ten days, the employment-status lawsuits against Uber and Lyft, the incredible growth of Uber's engineering department, Jason's ideas for a mobile note-taking app and for a site that teaches you how to do math proofs, the sites Sophia and Brilliant, the status of Battle Math and the latest with the math class.

276: TZ Discussion - The Year of No - For Real This Time Feb 15, 2015

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Justin and Jason discuss the impending delivery of Justin's walking desk and his health and fitness dilettantism, why Instapaper has become just another "to-do list" for Jason, their respective Hacker News reading strategies, the latest on MV Code Club, how the money raising process differs between celebrity and non-celebrity founders, why Jason pulled out of Empath as well as the crypto-exchange (AKA the "secret project"), why success requires focus, how multiple injuries have put Operation Superhero on temporary hold and the latest with the accelerated math class.

275: TZ Discussion - In God We Trust, Everyone Else Bring Data Jan 20, 2015

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Justin and Jason discuss Justin's short-lived madness about algorithmic trading, the book Building Algorithmic Trading Systems, using neural networks to predict the future price of Bitcoin, why Jason said no to doing the MIT Circuits & Electronics MOOC with his friend Phil, the unexpected benefits of working on toy problems, why teaching the accelerated math class is Jason's favorite three hours of the week, the conditions under which accelerating kids can provide significant advantages and when it doesn't, Colby's "IQ" test and Ms. Extra Credit, moving God's Tweets from a VPS to EC2, RDS and S3 and how changing Apple developer accounts caused a iOS/OSX/Titanium upgrade cascade, MaxCDN vs. Amazon's CloudFront, tricks for developing professional-looking Titanium apps, the TED talk – Behind the Great Firewall of China and how Obama and Cameron are cracking down on encryption, why Jason, like most most security researchers, doesn't believe North Korea was behind the Sony attack, why it's a good idea to dismiss government claims when they fail to provide evidence, Seymour Hersh’s debunking of the USG’s claim that Syria used chemical weapons, the failed SpaceX Falcon 9 landing and Elon Musk's recent announcement about the Texas Hyperloop experiment, Larry Summer’s response to Marc Andreessen's tweet storm about secular stagnation, a listener's app Happy Scales, why pursuing an academic career in math or science is the new monasticism, replicating the career paths of Elon Musk and Jeff Hawkins, the sudden handwringing about the future threat of strong AI, the series Extant, Black Mirror and Video Game High School, the problem with uploading your intelligence into a digital world, the cloned bull that changed, László Polgár and the nature nurture debate, Justin's walking desk and the quest for workout economy, how Jason's leg injury has put a pause on Operation Superhero and his philosophy of how to continue making progress (see Ray Liotta’s rant in Copland).

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274: TZ Discussion - All Things HFT Dec 15, 2014

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Justin and Jason discuss Justin's rebound project and the myriad questions Justin has about HFT (high-frequency trading), learning to code with CodeAvengers and CodeCombat, the latest on Operation Superhero and MV Code Club, scaling with Node.js at Uber, posting error messages to Slack and HipChat, scaling and managing servers at Digedu, Jason's interview on Get Up and Code, why iXL didn't work for the math team and how to setup a backup configuration using MySQL and EC2.

273: TZ Discussion - Limitless Dec 08, 2014

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Justin and Jason discuss why Disco hasn't worked out and what Justin has learned from the experience, balancing product development with sales and marketing, how to select and validate a business idea, the basics of algorithmic trading, how Jason increased his vertical jump by 8 inches, high and low adaptors, Justin's desire for a walking desk, how to raise your IQ, the research in support of it, and Jason's effort to keep the math team together.

272: TZ Interview - Mike Walmsley / Code Avengers Nov 24, 2014

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Jason talks with Mike Walmsley, the founder and primary developer of the programming education site Code Avengers.

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