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Professor meow meow (lemm.ee)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 159 points 7 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago

Do you think it was a cat in the hat

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago

I think you mean Raccacoonie, the raccoon?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

Cattenheimer.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 55 points 7 months ago

Pspspspsps

[–] [email protected] 41 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 46 points 7 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

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago (1 children)

how is it that cats make everything better?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

By being perfect wonderful creatures. Duh.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The second referee once told us that our paper should not be published at all.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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Did he say YOU shouldn't publish it or it shouldn't be published?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I suspect they were a rival of my co-author, that's why they didn't want it to be published. Or they didn't want me to be published in this journal.

The communication is happening through journal's editors, so they could not explicitly write that they don't want ME to be publish papers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Reject modernity, embrace tradition 😆

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago

This makes me happy

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 98 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Find and replace

a feature typewriters used in 1975 were famous for

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Didn't catch the year ahaha

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

and even today

. . . as ~~we~~ I are describing below . . .

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

. . . as we are descrwebweng below . . .

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (2 children)

that's how you end up with dawizards

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

it's a Scunthorpe problem but even nerdier

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

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

Neat.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 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."

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

https://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.35.1442

The referenced paper

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

damn, I thought there would be a pawprint

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

The pawprint we were all looking for.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Reminds me of Yuri Knorozov and his cat Asya