166: TZ Interview – Anthony Goldbloom & Jeremy Howard / Kaggle

Justin and Jason talk to Anthony Goldbloom and Jeremy Howard, co-founders of Kaggle, a platform for predictive modeling competitions....
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165: TZ Interview – Rob Walling / HitTail

Justin and Jason talk with Rob Walling about the acquisition and release of his new site HitTail....
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164: TZ Discussion – War, the Price of Oil and You

Justin and Jason discuss Justin's recent post about converting his site from PayPal to Stripe, Jason's idea for a mathematical equation describing the tyranny of choice, the latest on Pluggio, AnyFu and Appignite, why Jason believes war with Iran is likely and how the price of oil will skyrocket if it happens,...
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163: TZ Discussion – Shadow Hoppers

Justin and Jason discuss The Decline and Fall of the American Empire, How in-flight entertainment systems are architected, Irish ATM's weird defaults, How Moore's Law may work for years to come due to quantum anomaly, Justin's idea of flipping a house, and much more. Executive Producer #1: Dave Marshall Executive Producer #2:...
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162: TZ Discussion – Happy Christmas

TechZing Christmas special. Justin and Jason talk about SOPA, Functioning Synapse Created Using Carbon Nanotubes, AnyFu, StartupGuild, Predictions for 2012, Jason shooting a film with Colby and of course, Christmas. Shout-out donation by Felix Long. Thanks :)...
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161: TZ Discussion – The Cycle of Life

Justin and Jason discuss why Peter and Alex were asked to fill in for Jason on last week's show, why our brains seem to get slower over time, Justin's struggle to remain productive while on his six week "work-cation", why Jason accepted a full-time consulting contract with Uber, whether it's...
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160: TZ Panel – The British Invasion

Justin, Alex Gemmell & Peter Cooper talk about various Hacker News stories including The Unintended Effects of Driverless Cars, What really happened aboard Air France 447, More Paypal nonsense, Don't Be A Free User, Why we ditched PayPal for Stripe, 17-year-old wins 100k for creating cancer-killing nanoparticle , Zendesk CEO calls Freshdesk a freaking...
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159: TZ Discussion – A Little Too Clever By Half

Justin and Jason discuss Jason Cohen's WP Engine, the idea for a Kickstarter-like site that would allow customers to prepay for a pre-launched service, getting AnyFu out the door and lessons learned so far, the man-made super flu that could kill half of humanity, why musicians and other creatives seem...
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158: TZ Discussion – The Economic Efficiency of Bribing Your Kids

Justin and Jason discuss working while traveling, their dissatisfaction with Asana and the low tech solution they've adopted, the pros and cons of "banking your enthusiasm", the Cern Neutrino experiment, how a vacuum isn't empty but contains "class definitions" of real particle known as virtual particles, the TV show John...
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157: TZ Discussion – Cold Fusion, Zynga Options and Other Fairy Tales

Justin and Jason discuss the progress being made on AnyFu and related business decisions, concepts from the book Running Lean, Paul Paetz of Innovative Disruption, why no one is going to steal an unproven idea, why you want to buy when everyone else is selling and sell when everyone else...
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