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Kash Chandran
- Feb 22
- 8 min
Section 529 Tricks
Learn tax-saving strategies with 529 plans for education and retirement, including tips for NY taxpayers.
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Kash Chandran
- Feb 13
- 8 min
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.
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Kash Chandran
- Feb 5
- 3 min
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.
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Kash Chandran
- Jan 28
- 2 min
Branching Processes and Extinction
Classic branching process question with variants that appear frequently in quant finance interviews.
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Kash Chandran
- Jan 21
- 1 min
Three Stocks with Pairwise Correlations ρ: What Values can ρ Take?
Classic question testing Linear Algebra in the context of Finance.
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Kash Chandran
- Oct 3, 2023
- 1 min
Newborns and Bayes' Rule
Classic problem of computing the gender of a newborn using Bayes' Rule and Conditional Probability.
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Kash Chandran
- Sep 1, 2023
- 2 min
The Birthday Problem in Probability
This is a classic problem and has many variants - so you should definitely understand the approach.
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