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[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

This cat co-authored a paper

[–] FuglyDuck 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

and has gotten more academic accolades than any one here. probably more than all of us combined. (Sorry, I'm dragging the group down.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

you are dragging the group up by comparing to cats

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Signature look of superiority

[–] A7thStone 7 points 2 weeks ago

The hallmark of a Siamese cat. All cats are above the world, Siamese think they are above all cats.

[–] pyre 6 points 2 weeks ago

has a Wikipedia article too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._D._C._Willard

[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 weeks ago

Honestly these small things should be in textbooks more often. Should give your brain a reset from the monotony of reading a textbook.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

A favourite textbook for me:

https://sites.google.com/site/doingbayesiandataanalysis/

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

A tutorial with R and BUGS

Part of me understands that BUGS must stand for something I'm not familiar with, but I can also assure you, if I'm following a tutorial for data analysis it is going to contain bugs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

The new version uses Stan who will judge you silently for not knowing what you're doing.

He also gives you mysterious C++ compilation errors to keep things interesting.

[–] CM400 9 points 2 weeks ago

μ

[–] Chev 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Cat tax

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Makes you wonder what the first cat did to be replaced by the time the second picture was taken.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

schrödinger opened the box

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

didn't show their work.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You’re allowed to not show your work, you just have to write either “this is left as an exercise to the reader” or “it is trivial to show that …”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

"it is trivial to meow that ..."