And then we try and get our simulation to match the past, and hope that that will help it predict the future.

尝试让仿真程序能和这一部分实际数据相符，并且希望它能够帮我们对未来进行预测。

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Advisers routinely overuse past information to predict future optimal asset allocations for retail clients.

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Sales and marketing tend to be inwardly focused and rely on past experiences to predict future outcomes.

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Forecasters, he says, still rely on past usage patterns to predict future ones, and that can lead to faulty forecasts.

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