TechZing

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.

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.

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

Justin and Jason discuss the summit and the prospect of hosting another one, whether growing the show would be possible or even make a difference, whether World War III could stop a rising population, how HP’s Thermal Inkjet printing is going 3D and how Google is developing cancer and a heart attack detector, Amazon Echo, the prospects for AI in the near term and the risks of achieving superintelligence, how Scientists made a telepathy breakthrough, the latest on Operation Superhero and the SAID principle, Justin's diet and why he loves Space Nutrients, Jason's new rules for Colby's computer time and his recent tour of a local all-girls school, the latest with the math team, Justin's private preschool future and what's up with Jason's various projects.

Justin and Jason discuss the TZ summit, the prospect of establishing a colony on Mars and what that process might look like, the prospect of an Ebola pandemic, betting on black swans and counterparty risk, why the TV show Lost was unable to close so many of it's story lines, the idea for a productivity app modeled after Lost's Swan computer, Justin's vintage terminal app and his new cardio solution, what motivates people to change themselves, whether Justin has any regrets about selling Pluggio, why Jason gets satisfaction from helping other people and why he's more excited about teaching the math class than any of his other projects, the fake legend of Walter O’Brien and Scorpion, the This American Life episode The Super, The Cracked Podcast, the upcoming content sites Nautilus, Quartz, Medium and Svbtle, productivity and anti-productivity habits, the apps Self Control, HabitRPG and EpicWin, an update on Operation Superhero, what happened to Jason's screenplay concept, the latest with the math class, why Jason put learning electrical engineering on pause and the progress being made by MVCC.

Justin and Jason discuss the upcoming summit, the latest on Disco, Justin's life with a newborn, the summit's super sponsors, MV Code Club’s new location and possible sources of growth capital, how the brain can classify words during sleep and how people think more creatively when they walk, the book A Whack on Side of the Head, hitting the reset button in your brain, Jason's progress on operation Superhero, Justin's workout and non-diet diet, Justin's favorite new tech site SciTechDaily, why Colby tanked his spelling test, Justin's idea for a baby rocker that simulates a drive in a car, the fact that "luck surface area" is going to be in yet another book – "You:Rebranded", the SyNAPSE Chip by IBM Mimics Brain and the mobile web app that Jason has been developing to monitor and manage Uber's real-time systems. Summit Super Sponsors Glenn Bennett / 250 big ones Aaron Night / 250 big ones

Justin and Jason speak with Dr. Doug McGuff about his book, Body by Science: A Research Based Program for Strength Training, Body building, and Complete Fitness in 12 Minutes a Week. A special shoutout goes to Andy Chamberlain who emailed Justin with a heads up about Doug and the Body by Science protocol.

Justin and Jason talk with Gabriel Weinberg, founder of DuckDuckGo, about his new book Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers. Gabriel also appears in the following TechZing shows: 68 TZ Interview – Gabriel Weinberg & DuckDuckGo 91: TZ Panel – Phil Aman & Gabriel Weinberg 99: TZ Panel – Gabriel Weinberg & Peter Cooper 179: TZ Interview – Gabriel Weinberg / Blowing Up DuckDuckGo 225: TZ Interview – Gabriel Weinberg / The DuckDuckGo Step Function

Justin and Jason discuss Justin's new baby and all of the related complications, an update on Jason's weight-loss and fitness program and why he's so skeptical of Justin's 15-minutes-per-week workout, the new pullout math class for the 5th-grade math team, an update on Jason's effort to learn electronics and how he couldn't get Anki or Mnemosyne to display equations, the progress on the God’s Tweets iPhone app, why Empath has stalled out, how MV Code Club is all set to open a new location, and the status of the Battle Math card game.

Justin and Jason discuss the movie Guardians of the Galaxy and the show Halt and Catch Fire, why they both like the post-apocalyptic genre, the final dates for the TechZing Summit, a progress report on Operation Superhero, Justin's "audacious goal" of starting a funk band, why Jason thinks Derek Sivers is wrong about keeping your goals to yourself, Jason's electrical engineering learning experiment and his idea of posting his notes and problem solutions to the web using CircuitLab and MathJax, what is was about Stanford's Neurogrid project that inspired Jason to learn electronics, how Jason's MightyHive convertible note actually converted into equity and how his angel investment, MV Code Club, is opening a second location, the latest on Disco, why Justin enjoys doing devops using Salt, how Jason and Sandy are going to be teaching Algebra to 5th graders this year and Jason's plans for the Battle Math card game, a contrarian view of MITx, Parkinson’s Law, whether it makes more sense to join an established but growing tech company or to just apply to YC, why Justin sold his Soylent, Jason's recent physical and Lightbot – the app / game that teaches basic programming concepts.