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Re:I've reproduced 130 research papers about “predicting the... by numakerg on Saturday August 17, 2019 @03:16AM (#20722672)
>Nothing useful came up,

Except plenty useful came up. "Literally every single paper was either p-hacked, overfit, or a subsample of favourable data was selected" out of 130+ is a significant result. The media would jump on this, and they just might even without any proof of work.

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Re:I've reproduced 130 research papers about “predicting the... by defertoreptar on Saturday August 17, 2019 @08:47AM (#20723754)
I was referring to the word "useful" within the context of the author's hypothetical goal, not the parent poster's (i.e. a strategy useful for making money opposed to sharing knowledge).
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