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Important Knowledge

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This cat co-authored a paper

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- and has gotten more academic accolades than any one here. probably more than all of us combined. (Sorry, I'm dragging the group down.)
  
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  you are dragging the group up by comparing to cats
  
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- Signature look of superiority
  
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  The hallmark of a Siamese cat. All cats are above the world, Siamese think they are above all cats.
  
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- has a Wikipedia article too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._D._C._Willard
  
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Honestly these small things should be in textbooks more often. Should give your brain a reset from the monotony of reading a textbook.

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A favourite textbook for me:

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

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- 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.
  
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  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.
  
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Cat tax

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

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- schrödinger opened the box
  
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- didn't show their work.
  
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  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 …”
  
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