With dollar prices plummeting to the 40s, the yield on this Russian external bond has exploded reflecting a higher probability of non-payment by the government. Yet even this elevated level doesn't capture fully the significant increase in the risk of default to creditors. pic.twitter.com/dCP8i7Uk4L
a julia set fractal can be created with repeated twistings and translations of a starting image. The twistings double the detail in the picture, and correspond to complex square-roots pic.twitter.com/M9XhWElehp
I discovered this way of growing the Mandelbrot set. The repeated operation helps me understand where the Mandelbrot set gets its shape and detail pic.twitter.com/f3FiYGgHyj
It will be becoming clear to those around Putin, the first and second tier of âsilovikiâ (security apparatus), oligarchs and technocrats that make up the âgreater Kremlinâ, that whatever happens with this war,