Kseniia Sergeeva
Can success be explained by randomness?
Why do some people seem to succeed so effortlessly, while others, equally as skilled, fall short? A start up with a carefully strategic approach fails, while a similar one becomes a highly successful company. A student studying for hours and getting a passing grade, while another barely prepares and excels. We tend to explain these outcomes through skill, talent and hard work, but what part of this unexpected success actually comes down to luck?
Why continuity assumptions matter more than you think
In econometrics, many of the most important results depend on conditions that rarely receive attention. Buried inside proofs, often labeled as “regularity conditions,” these assumptions can look technical and secondary. Continuity is one of them. Yet continuity is not just a background detail. It is one of the structural features that makes estimation possible, inference meaningful, and models stable.
How Twitter Trading Works
Have you ever watched a tweet go viral and wondered if someone is quietly making money from it? That idea is at the core of “Twitter trading”: turning tweets into data that guide trades.