The core narrative here isn’t just about optimizing revenue, it’s about the fundamental relationship between prediction and understanding. Ascend is selling a carefully calibrated illusion of objectivity – the algorithm as the infallible oracle. However, the article’s cautious phrasing—“they need to ingest a lot of information” and "human intuition can be key"—hints at a critical vulnerability: algorithms are fundamentally built on *assumptions* about the future. The ERCOT winter storm example i...