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If you’ve ever traded bonds, you’ll be familiar with them as a fairly low yield investment instrument. Buy them, hold them till maturity and pocket the coupons in the process. Fairly simple right? That is a tried and tested way to earn a solid, albeit low rate of return. However…

Just a couple more steps than common stock, really — The rise of commission-free trading apps in recent times has fuelled a rise in options trading. And it’s easy to see why, really. Nations worldwide are offering stimulus packages injecting money into the economy. And these nations are still reeling from lockdowns. With tons of liquidity sloshing around and few…

What is Bitcoin mining, exactly? Well, this is a question with numerous layers of understanding. There is no limit to how deep the rabbit hole goes, and a deep understanding of the nuts and bolts has occupied numerous research journals and articles. However, for the purposes of this article, we shall be keeping it simple. A brief explanation of the SHA-256 Hash Algorithm …

Parallel worlds, branching timelines, alternate realities These notions have been featured in a plethora of science fiction films. In all these films, the one thing in common is the reference to another world(s). Worlds very much like our own. Worlds entirely different from our own. The Terminator franchise

If you're familiar with Iron Man, you’ll probably remember the scenes synonymous with the character. Repulsors Rays of light, blasting from the various outlets of the suit, with immense concussive power. Throughout the entire cinematic depiction of Iron Man, they’ve ranged from being able to knock a fully grown human…

I remember growing watching Mythbusters on TV. The characters in the show truly pulled out all stops to test whatever funny theories that the minds of movie directors could dream up. And now, as luck has it, I seem to have obtained the educational pedigree to become some sort of…

“It’s all just numbers, really” — Peter Sullivan, Margin Call What are the Basel Accords? Following the Global Financial Crisis, an international coalition of regulatory bodies came together to agree upon a set of rules. These rules were meant to curb excessive risk-taking, in hopes that a similar situation would never occur again. These rules since then, have been periodically…

One of the cornerstones of quantum mechanics is that of wave-particle duality. Down at the microscope level, things behave extremely counterintuitively. And things quite literally, appear and disappear at the blink of an eye. And matter, behaves more like waves, fluctuating back and forth. The governing equations of these waves…