“I know that theories are really useful for making predictions, but can one actually make a prediction without one?”
Yes, that’s what data mining is: Take a large corpus of data, find some statistically rare relationships, and then test for their predictive value on another large corpus of data. In this way one can predict things without really having any kind of theory or even domain knowledge. Marcus
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