number of steps you predict into the future and namely you would imagine that predicting all the way into the future is going to be really helpful but it doesn't turn out to be the case so if you predict only up to twelve steps instead of predicting 16 up to all the way up to sixteen steps the downstream accuracy is better so this means that the right way to predict it is such that the targets that you're trying to predict should share so amount of information with the context that you already have you go further and further into the