[$] Looking back at 2023

Yet another year has come to an end. Much to our dismay, 2023 did not, infact, happen exactly as we predicted back inJanuary. So it seems that, once again, we will have to go through theprocess of looking at the predictions that we made and mocking each inturn, before getting into what was missed altogether. A lot happened in2023, not all of which was predictable.