The conundrum of latent prediction: signals themselves are stochastic, so what to keep?

hisspikeness · x · 2026-10-08

Part 2: the signals of interest are themselves stochastic; both the stochastic signals and nuisance variables make the next observation unpredictable, raising the question of how a predictive model knows what to keep and what to ignore.

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