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Qu Dawei

Extrapolation

Hasn't anyone taught these people of the dangers of extrapolation, and the need to consider very carefully the underlying model one uses if one even dares to extrapolate too far into the future? Come on! This should be elementary stuff in things like time-series analysis, and other prediction techniques, and so on.

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