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Zad Rafi

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A short notice on copyright, attribution, and what you may do with the work published here — distributed under a Creative Commons license, in keeping with the open scientific tradition.

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The license

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

CC BY 4.0

Unless explicitly noted otherwise, all original written content on this site is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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Adapt

remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.

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§ III — A worked example

Attribution need not be elaborate. The following forms suffice for nearly all reuses, whether you are quoting a paragraph in a paper, reproducing a figure on a slide, or adapting a passage in a blog post.

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Chow, Z. (YYYY). [Title of the post]. LessLikely.com.
Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
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— BibTeX —

@misc{chow_YYYY_post,
  author       = {Chow, Zad},
  title        = {Title of the post},
  year         = {YYYY},
  howpublished = {\url{https://lesslikely.com/path/to/post}},
  note         = {Licensed under CC BY 4.0}
}

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  <a href="https://lesslikely.com">Zad Chow</a>
  under a
  <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY 4.0</a>
  license.
</p>

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