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Forecasting for the sake of forecasting

2020-03-232020-03-23 by Ivan Svetunkov

You probably have already noticed that we are in a pandemic of COVID-19 these days (breaking news: the UK has just announced a lockdown due to the virus). The number of news, memes and noise on the topic coming from around the world is astonishing! What is also astonishing is the number of posts on … Read more

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