Abstract: Embodiments described herein allow predictions to be made for any continuous position by making use of a continuous position embedding based on previous observations. An encoder-decoder structure is described herein that allows effective predictions for any position without requiring predictions for intervening positions to be determined. This provides improvements in computational efficiency. Specific embodiments can be applied to predicting the number of events that are expected to occur at or by a given time. Embodiments can be adapted to make predict based on electronic health records, for instance, determining the likelihood of a particular health event occurring by a particular time.