Professor meow meow

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• K0W4LSK1@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Are you guys serious the cat obviously wrote the paper and just needed the Professor human for credibility. This is just like that movie with the rat in the chef hat , but it’s a cat and a physicist

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  • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Do you think it was a cat in the hat

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  • Shard@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think you mean Raccacoonie, the raccoon?

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  • Rolando@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Cattenheimer.

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• lowleveldata@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I would too, like to speak to the co-author

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  • SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Pspspspsps

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• fristislurper@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Anyone have an recent example of FDC Willard being thanked in a paper? I couldn’t find any, sadly

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  • Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There are some listed on the Wikipedia page, which also contains this gem in the ‘quick facts’ section.

    Known for. First cat to co-author a physics paper

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._D._C._Willard

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  • Rolando@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But I guess we can have “FDC Willard numbers” in the same way we can have Erdős numbers, right?

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• riodoro1@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  how is it that cats make everything better?

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  • melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    By being perfect wonderful creatures. Duh.

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• humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s a long lasting tradition to use “we” even in solo authored papers. I believe even Newton did this

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  • summerof69@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s a long lasting tradition to use “we” even in solo authored papers. We believe even Newton did this

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    • bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If our knowledge is based on our forebears, it would always be we.

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  • Mo5560@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The 2nd referee will nonetheless tell you to get rid of all of them

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    • humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The second referee once told us that our paper should not be published at all.

      Eventually, it made it to the Editor’s choice section of the journal

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  • Shareni@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yup, that was a requirement for most papers at my uni. We also use the plural you to show respect, even when talking to a single person.

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    • humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Reject modernity, embrace tradition 😆

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• Grass@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This makes me happy

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• Rolando@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sure, it’s a cute story, but what about prof’s grad students sitting in the background with weepy eyes?

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They should know better than be where the public can see them

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• scarilog@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Find and replace “I” with “we”? Nah, we adding the kitty

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  • noodlejetski@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Find and replace

    a feature typewriters used in 1975 were famous for

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    • scarilog@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Didn’t catch the year ahaha

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  • nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    that’s how you end up with dawizards

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    • fckreddit@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I was confused at first. Then, I realized that when they replaced ‘mage’ with ‘wizard’, ‘damage’ became ‘dawizard’. It is actually hilarious.

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    • pancakesyrupyum@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      On my device that’s one of those websites that don’t allow using the Back button.

      Neat.

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  • Mo5560@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Isn’t “I” considered poor form? I was taught to always write in passive but “we” is kind of the accepted exception.

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• DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  He does exude an air of competence and arrogance in equal measure. Clearly tenured.

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• AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is totally valid. Rubber duck debugging is a thing. Heck, I’ve literally been a “Rubber Duck” for more than one person. I’m sure that Chester heard enough of the theory of the paper to claim the title of “Rubber Duck Live Cat Debugger.”

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• woodytrombone@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/…/PhysRevLett.35.1442

  The referenced paper

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  • hswolf@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    damn, I thought there would be a pawprint

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    • Dicska@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The pawprint we were all looking for.

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• ParabolicMotion@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It would have been a really hot topic of discussion if his last name had been Schrödinger.

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• CyberTailor@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Reminds me of Yuri Knorozov and his cat Asya

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