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Adventures in Probability

I hope everyone had a good weekend. I went on a hike. It was great. Statistics One of my great school regrets, next to “taking three years of business...

I know little enough about networking that I won't pretend to actually understand the context explained in that RFC (though I only spent a train ride or two going through it). A Poisson point process is a way of generating events along a timeline with some specific properties that we don't have the space to get into here. It's also common (more for convenience, than realism) to treat the time it takes to service an event in a queueing system as exponentially distributed.

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