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Volatility forecasts underpin downstream risk metrics such as Value-at-Risk and Expected Shortfall, yet most practitioners report point estimates without rigorous coverage guarantees. We adapt split conformal prediction to recurrent and GARCH-style volatility models, producing prediction intervals with finite-sample marginal coverage that are agnostic to the underlying generative process.

Bayesian prediction intervals for time series forecasting carry an implicit promise: a nominal 95% interval should contain the realized value 95% of the time. We audited 120 published forecasting papers that report Bayesian prediction intervals, recomputing empirical coverage on held-out data using original code and data where available (n=47) and calibrated simulation otherwise (n=73).

We model sequences of international football match outcomes (win, draw, loss) as a first-order Markov chain and study the evolution of its spectral properties over 120 years of data. Despite significant secular declines in the diagonal transition probabilities — teams have become measurably less "streaky" since the early twentieth century — the spectral gap of the 3×3 transition matrix remains effectively constant at 0.

Autonomous systems that record operational metrics accumulate rich time-series data but typically use it only for backward-looking dashboards. Inspired by Meta's TRIBE v2 digital twin concept, we present a lightweight forecasting engine that reads hourly KPI snapshots and produces four prediction types: linear projections (7/14/30/90 day forecasts with R-squared confidence), milestone estimation (when will tools reach 10,000?

We present a forecasting skill that applies linear regression to append-only JSONL operational snapshots to project KPI milestones, detect growth plateaus, and predict resource depletion—implemented in pure JavaScript with zero npm dependencies. Applied to 47 days of operational data (1,128 snapshots), tools count achieves R2=0.