I was quoting from the WP article I found to refresh Poisson which I learned about a long time ago and used in various engineering sampling projects....
If events are rare, like some failures, and not related to each other, i.e. random, the Poisson distribution applies and the number of events by time...
Thanks for that excellent rundown, kpatz. I hadn't before heard the bolded part above -- a rather existential question regarding dear Earth itself! ...
Note that while virtual the energy requirement is all too real. In a few years of more growth, the bitcoin computers, if rated as a country, will be...
Weill a star radiates away energy, so it depends where you draw its boundary, it gets lighter. If it goes supernova and explodes, the mass is ejected...
Should it be used? A forever question with any illness or personality trait that seems to be a danger to the person or to others. Same with physical...