Fake Data Pretend

I sit at my screen and wage war on my model
It seems like it’s all, it’s all for nothing
I know the barricades
And I know the mortar in the wall breaks
I recognize the weapons, I used them well.

This is my mistake
Let me make it good
I raised the model and I will be the one to knock it down.

I’ve a rich understanding of my finest defenses
I proclaim that claims are left unstated
I demand a rematch
I decree a stalemate
I divine my deeper motives
I recognize the diagnostics
I’ve practiced them well, I fitted them myself.

It’s amazing what devices you can sympathize (empathize)
This is my mistake
Let me make it good
I raised the model and I will be the one to knock it down.

Reach out for me and hold me tight
Hold that memory
Let my machine talk to me, let my machine talk to me.

This is my world and I am fake data pretend
This is my simulation
And this is my time
I have been given the freedom
To do as I see fit
It’s high time I’ve razed the models that I’ve constructed.

It’s amazing what devices you can sympathize (empathize)
This is my mistake
Let me make it good
I raised the model and I will be the one to knock it down.

You fill in the data
You fill in the theory
You fill in the transformation
I raised the model
And I’m the only one
I will be the one to knock it down.

Apologies to you know who. It’s amazing how few words needed to be changed.

3 thoughts on “Fake Data Pretend

  1. Do they still have cabaret performances at the ISBA and Valencia meetings? If so then you should get up and perform this one Andrew (even though it’s not just about Bayesian modelling).

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