Re:An interactive map showing every German bomb dropped on L...
by bweitzman on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @11:03AM
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Poisson distributions are completely random, so I'm guessing you mean either a uniform or normal distribution.
failrate is making a reference to the Thomas Pynchon novel "Gravity's Rainbow", in which the Poisson distribution of the bombing of London is a major plot point.
And I do believe the author is correct by claiming it is a Poisson distribution, since we are talking a number of events per km^2.
Re:An interactive map showing every German bomb dropped on L...
by empiricus on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @01:05PM
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Thanks, I see now.
I was thinking that Poisson distributions look like distributions generated by Poisson disk sampling (with which I was more familiar).
failrate is making a reference to the Thomas Pynchon novel "Gravity's Rainbow", in which the Poisson distribution of the bombing of London is a major plot point.
And I do believe the author is correct by claiming it is a Poisson distribution, since we are talking a number of events per km^2.