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Your Realized Quant Ikigai
Understand trade-offs in what matters to you, find optimal goodness-of-fit with employers, and minimize adverse selection with Quant Ikigai.
Kash Chandran
Jun 20, 20246 min read
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Section 529 Tricks
Learn tax-saving strategies with 529 plans for education and retirement, including tips for NY taxpayers.
Kash Chandran
Feb 22, 20248 min read
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The 7 Stocks Driving the S&P 500's All Time High
Understand how the S&P 500's all time highs are supported and whether this is a good or bad thing.
Kash Chandran
Feb 13, 20248 min read
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Coin Flipping: Using Markov Chains to Compute Expected Times and Probabilities of a Substring
How to use Markov Chains to Compute Expected Times and Probabilities of Coin Flips.
Kash Chandran
Feb 5, 20243 min read
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Branching Processes and Extinction
Classic branching process question with variants that appear frequently in quant finance interviews.
Kash Chandran
Jan 28, 20242 min read
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Three Stocks with Pairwise Correlations ρ: What Values can ρ Take?
Classic question testing Linear Algebra in the context of Finance.
Kash Chandran
Jan 21, 20241 min read
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Newborns and Bayes' Rule
Classic problem of computing the gender of a newborn using Bayes' Rule and Conditional Probability.
Kash Chandran
Oct 3, 20231 min read
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The Birthday Problem in Probability
This is a classic problem and has many variants - so you should definitely understand the approach.
Kash Chandran
Sep 1, 20232 min read
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