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If you're preparing for IB recruiting, you might want to skip memorizing hundreds of questions and focus on understanding these core concepts:

* 3-Statement Accounting Flows: Understand how changes in working capital, depreciation and debt flow through Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Statement. Interviewers will alter variables to test if you understand the mechanics.

* Enterprise Value vs. Equity Value: Know the bridge between two and understand why items like cash are subtracted and debt is added to keep valuation multiples like-for-like.

* LBO Levers: Master how purchase/exit multiples, leverags ratios and revenue growth impact overall IRR. Be prepared to walk through a simple paper LBP in your mind.

I've been experimenting with Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to automate repetitive developer workflows and connecting multiple simple servers together turned out to be much easier than expected.

Instead of writing custom scripts for every tool, the MCP lets Claude query local databases or APIs directly using structured schemas.

Quick Workflow Overview:

* Database Querying: Connect a PostgreSQL/SQLite MCP server to read live schema and local databases.

* External Actions: Use a GitHub or filesystem MCP server to execute file updates or PRs based on that data.

* Result: Reduced context switching without having to manually copy-paste JSON inputs/outputs.

For anyone who has integrated MCP into their daily set up-which server tools or integrations have saved you the most time so far?

When selecting a search API for Retrieval- Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, choosing between an independent index and legacy tech infrastructure highly impacts privacy and cost:

* Brave Search API: Powered by its own independent web index rather than scraping Google. It provides and ensures privacy, model-ready, grounding data at a significantly lower price per query.

* Bing Web Search API: Powered by Microsoft's global search infrastructure. It offers and ensures deep indexing and seamless integration with Azure AI services, though per-query costs higher.

Key Takeaway: Use Brave Search API for an independent, cost-effective and privacy focused retrieval pipeline. Use Bing Search API if your stack is heavily integrated into the Microsoft/Azure enterprise ecosystem.

Which search inbox would you rely on for real time RAG context?

why are CGMs so expensive 😢