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STEFAN GATES: I’m Stefan Gates, I’m a TV presenter and a chef. I’ve eaten all sorts of food, from the weird to the wonderful. What can I say? I just like exploring the world. Whether you are making a ...

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Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

KIPS was a metric in the early days of computers but is still used for CPUs in low-end microcontrollers that are used by the billions. MIPS and GIPS are common metrics today as countless CPUs execute ...

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