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by derbOac 1030 days ago
I've found it difficult in writing information theoretic/statistics papers anticipating what is obvious or assumable and what is not. Things I think are obvious or established beyond doubt because they're so self evident become points of contention, and things that were not obvious to me at all are called out as common knowledge.
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Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2501/

At least with information theory/statistics someone could write a moderately amusing paper about this, if the field has anything like what SIGBOVIK is for computation.