Your taxes pay for the research funding that supports the work we do here, some of which appears on this blog and almost all of which is public, free, and open-source. So, to all of the taxpayers out there in the audience: thank you.
Your taxes pay for the research funding that supports the work we do here, some of which appears on this blog and almost all of which is public, free, and open-source. So, to all of the taxpayers out there in the audience: thank you.
Tax day is April 18th this year.
http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=233910,…
But you're very welcome.
Andrew's not the only one who forgot it's April 18. My cousin owns a CPA firm, and scheduled his daughter's wedding for tomorrow, April 16, thinking the rush would be over instead of at its height.
So much of tax funded research is locked up from the public behind paywalls and obscure journals and academic conferences and things. Thank YOU for making a concerted effort to communicate your research to the public and provide the software and articles that you write in a format where everyone can access them without hassle.
Hi Andrew,
I enjoy your blog but what tax- funded research are you talking about?
Dominic
Missing data imputation, multilevel models, weakly informative priors, Bayesian computation, climate reconstruction, public opinion, and social networks.
You are welcome but I am afraid to say that my taxes do not finance your research. Thanks for the free meals :)
"So, to all of the taxpayers out there in the audience: thank you."
Andrew, that almost sounds like you're not paying taxes yourself?
Epanechnikov:
Yeah, I guess it's my U.S. readers whom I'm thanking here.
Bert:
Yes, I pay taxes!