Why would I need this again?

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(Spoiler: I needed it again.) We encounter in our courses numerous esoteric concepts and techniques, and wonder why we learn them. Once the final exam or project leaves out hand, we bid farewell to most of the course content and move on. We don’t need them again, after all. (Un)fortunately, my research journey so far has proven otherwise. In this talk, I will share this experience in the context of my most recent problem, which is mixture component merging.