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> It'll take two or three more of these before I've seen enough to start gelling the domain problems in my head.

I don't understand - there's years of historical data to look at?

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I suppose I could look backwards instead of forwards.

Tbf, at this hour, it hadn't even occurred to me.

> Tbf, at this hour, it hadn't even occurred to me.

I am refreshed when I such honesty like this.

No defensive quip. No snarky response.

A gentle reminder that we are all human and we get tired and miss things.

I wouldn't bother unless you just want to try to compile stats. The active job seekers and the open positions from more than a month ago probably aren't valid today.

It's a bit like backtesting, in finance. Quite useful to establish whether your algorithm is sane and coherent, no use at all in determining if it is actually useful, to my understanding.

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