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[Intro - Soft acoustic guitar] Set out to climb the mountain Three weeks mapped out ahead Bootstrap confidence intervals Statistical rigor thread by thread [Verse 1] Phase 2: Document the shuffling Fisher-Yates, the random walk Phase 3: Ten thousand bootstraps Hypothesis tests, we need to talk Opened the files expecting work Planning the long campaign But every TODO already checked Every analysis, every test explained [Chorus] We thought we had miles to go Turns out we already arrived The work we planned to undertake Was waiting there, alive Not magic, not coincidence Just thoroughness that compounds When you build with honest care The foundation makes no sound [Verse 2 - Adding gentle percussion] Section 2.4, there it was Algorithm documented clean Verification protocol, seed handling R(1) near zero, marginals pristine Ten thousand samples, not one thousand Bonferroni correction applied Permutation tests at every scale No clustering, we verified [Bridge - Building with strings] Three to five days, the estimate said Fifteen minutes, verification Not because we rushed the work But because we did it right the first time Bootstrap CIs in every table Hypothesis tests for every claim Phase by phase by phase by phase Not missing, just unnamed [Chorus - Full arrangement] We thought we had miles to go Turns out we already arrived The work we planned to undertake Was waiting there, alive Not magic, not coincidence Just thoroughness that compounds When you build with honest care The foundation makes no sound [Verse 3 - Contemplative] Check what you have before assuming Read what's there before you write The roadmap said "three weeks to go" The paper whispered "you're done tonight" Scripts in bootstrap directory One thousand lines of inference code Statistical rigor, already rigorous Just needed eyes to see the road [Outro - Resolving to warmth] Phase 1: three days of honesty Phase 2: ten minutes, there Phase 3: fifteen minutes found Phase 4: ten hours to repair All success metrics: achieved Publication ready, complete Not by hurrying the work But by being thorough when we meet [Final Chorus - Quiet confidence] We thought we had miles to go Turns out we already arrived The work we planned to undertake Was waiting there, alive Trust what you've built with care Document what you've done The foundation reveals itself When you look, not when you run [End - Solo acoustic, fading] Already complete... already complete... Sometimes the work is in the seeing Not the doing, but believing