Jane Street on Dwarkesh Podcast

James Street's back with a new puzzle for my audience. I found all their puzzles super interesting, but this one I am especially excited about. I've cleared this weekend and a buddy and I are going to work on it. They designed an ASIC and sent me the final masks, including all the metal routing and active transistors. They also gave me a small sample of the inputs they typically feed into it, but they left out any information on what the chip is actually used for. So that's the puzzle. Reverse engineer the circuit and figure out the chip's purpose. James Street has a bunch of swag ready to send out to the most creative solutions, and they're excited to feature the best write-ups in a blog post they'll post on their website. I have no reason to expect this, but if I can manage to get my solution on there, I would be very, very psyched. And this puzzle is just a warmup for a bigger competition that Jane Street has slated for the fall. That one will involve designing your own ASIC from scratch. More info on that soon, but for now, go to janestreet.com slash thawarkash to download all the files necessary for this puzzle. I'd really encourage you to try it out even if you're not an expert. I certainly am not, and that's not going to stop me. Good luck.