I’m speaking in the “Yahoo Labs Big Thinkers” series on Friday 26 June. I hope I can live up to the title! My talk is on “Exploring the boundaries of predictability: what can we forecast, and when should we give up?" Essentially I will start with some of the ideas in this post, and then discuss the features of hard-to-forecast time series. So if you’re in the San Francisco Bay area, please come …