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[–] unlawfulbooger@lemmy.blahaj.zone 66 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This cat co-authored a paper

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year 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.)

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

you are dragging the group up by comparing to cats

[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Signature look of superiority

[–] A7thStone@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] chickenf622@sh.itjust.works 61 points 1 year ago

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

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year 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.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year 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@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago
[–] Chev@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year 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 …”

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

"it is trivial to meow that ..."

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

schrödinger opened the box