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Ordinarily, data scientists spend a lot of time trying to predict the future. Time‑series prediction, recommendations, even next‑token‑prediction…they’ve all broadly got the same flavor. Recently, however, I came across a problem with a distinctly different taste, and I’d like to share it with you today: predicting the past. Surely predicting the past is pretty easy, right?…