A Stanford mathematician who spent 10 years as a professional magician just described the market in one sentence:
"I've spent my life on two tricks: making a rigged deck look random, and making a random one look rigged. The market is the first trick, and almost nobody catches it."
That's Persi Diaconis. He has a free lecture that asks one question: does anything actually happen at random? The answer is: far less than you think.
The market is his first trick in the wild. It looks like pure chance. Buried inside is a faint rig, a 50.75% tilt no eye can see. Your gut reads a losing week as a broken system and a hot streak as skill. Wrong both times. The tilt is invisible to human intuition, which is exactly why funds hand the decision to the math.
None of it is hidden. Diaconis has taught it for decades. The probability goes back to 1713. The lecture is free.
Here's the trap: you feel every win and every loss, but you cannot feel the average. And the average is the only thing that pays. It takes thousands of trades for a 51% edge to separate from luck, and almost everyone quits long before then.
The math is free. The patience to trust it past your own eyes is the edge.
Ce mec a gâché la carrière de Mazraoui à son poste de prédilection et même quand il joue pas à son poste de prédilection il est meilleur que lui.
C'est Hakimi qui doit s'adapter à Mazraoui et pas l'inverse
The wildest part about POVERTY is how much time it steals. Waiting for buses. Calling assistance offices. Comparing grocery prices. Fighting insurance. Sitting at laundromats. Being poor is a second job nobody pays you for.