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This is the book for you.\n\nTremble as we make up all our own facts and data, hand-draw diagrams in MS Paint, and quote from fictional studies and journals. Cower as authors write in the first person because their study is just a little too personal for them. Recoil from the sheer mass of oversimplified methodology, distilling someone's entire thesis into a paragraph of jokes crude enough to make it into a Mike Myers movie.\n\nOver the last few years, we have taken arguments that you would normally have after four Jack and cokes at game night and turned them into properly formatted research papers with a writing tone serious enough to confuse the uninitiated. These papers are high-effort jokes by researchers and scientists for researchers and scientists. They cover a range of topics such as the consequences of re-releasing tourists back into Yellowstone National Park after COVID-19, how to play StarCraft competitively online on a quantum computer, and most importantly, how trees around the globe are becoming increasingly radicalized.What you will learn\n\nHow to draw a graph using MS Paint, maybe\nWhether Sarah Palin is a figment of your imagination\nHow one pirate cat brought about the extinction of the beloved dodo\nWhy rabbits used to be jerks back in the day\nIf you actually learn anything from these articles, get your memory erased immediately\n\nWho this book is forThis book is for researchers and those who love science mingled with humor. It's for those who are a little too tired of the talking heads and futurists of the science world and would like something more entertaining in the form of absurd speculative studies by researchers as unbelievable as their work. Anyone who has experienced academic writing, or the tribulations of any research institution will enjoy the wide range of bizarre, yet real-world topics compiled in this book. 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Diverse authors present their ideas to the world outside of a Substack account with 1-23 followers and a TikTok video.\n\nKey Features\n\nDiscover new applications for familiar methods in everything from computer science to urban planning to psychology\nLearn to communicate your needs clearly, whether you’re a cat seeking food or a newly-single man trying to avoid a crucial misunderstanding on a dating app\nManage your relationship with expert-tested techniques from a variety of disciplines\n\nBook DescriptionThis book collects popular essays from the renowned Cranberry-Lemon University Press’s most illustrious scholars. Despite their questionable research methods, bizarre obsessions, personal vendettas, and often stunning lack of impartiality, the authors have irrefutably broken new ground academically. How to Prove Anything sheds new light on a wide range of topics.  \n\nFamed academics Dr. Tiffany Love and Dr. Chad Broman present a glimpse into their shared life via a series of papers that unravel the mysteries of modern romance. From time series analysis of mood swings to Pavlovian behavioral modification to sub-Nyquist sampling for balancing relationship attention with videogame performance, Chad and Tiffany find new and often startling uses for tried-and-true algorithms, gaining insights from which we can all benefit. \n\nCan I avoid arguments by predicting moods with time series analysis? Can linear programming help us determine who should do the dishes? And, most pressingly of all… Can I fix him? \n\nAcademic writing has brought new knowledge into the world for hundreds of years. This book may be the most vital contribution of all. While some of the applications in this book may be niche even obscure reading will provide intellectual stimulation, spiritual enlightenment or, at the very least, some entertainment. What you will learn\n\nHow a reinforcement learning algorithm can help you prioritize diners to maximize tips\nApply Markov Chain-Monte Carlo methods to determine a foster dog's true name\nLocate the coldest part of a room on a very hot day\nDispute insurance company verdicts with computational fluid dynamics analysis\n\nWho this book is forThis book is for anyone who needs to know how a Markov Process proves that it’s not worth investigating the Fermi Paradox because there probably aren’t any aliens and anyway even if there were they wouldn’t lie to you about this. 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