Key elements of a Poisson Process? I'm new to Stochastic Processes, in general. However, I see that they come in varying forms of complexity. A gaussian process (and gaussian process regression) are quite complicated and can easily fit non-linear trends in data. When I read about Poisson processes, the author starts and stops by deriving the Poisson distribution from the binomial. (But nothing more.) Examples typically include estimating the number of events in a time interval, so it seems to boil down to parameter estimation. I thought anytime &quot;process&quot; came up, there could be an infinite-dimensional problem where you estimate parameter functions, not just scalar parameters. Could anyone elaborate? (My job almost exclusively uses Bayesian methods, so if you have a resource that discusses PP in terms of Bayesian computation, that's not a deal breaker for me.)
Is a time series the same as a stochastic process? A stochastic process is a process that evolves over time, so is it really a fancier way of saying "time series"?
How to choose a specific weight from a font family using fontspec and XeLaTeX How much marmelade can I bring into the US? I want to bring homemade berry marmelade in little glass jars with me to the US from Europe as gifts for friends. I have found the following site on importing foods into the US  and would assume that marmelade falls under the condiments category, which should be admissible. However, I am wondering however if there is any limit to how much one is allowed to bring. Will there be any issues if, say, I bring 3 kilograms (6 lbs 10 oz)?   Also on related note, would they be suspiscious when they see many glass jars in my bag? Do I risk getting my bag searched or getting asked what the jars are? Is there anything I can do to avoid any such trouble? User  answered the wonderful  question by mentioning the using keyword. Can you elaborate on that? What are the uses of using? Recovering eigenvectors from SVD How to change this matrix with respect to standard basis? Given the basis $\beta = \{ (1, 1, 0),\ (1, 0, -1),\ (2, 1, 0)\}$ and the matrix:  $$ A =         \begin{bmatrix}         1 &amp; 1 &amp; 0 \\         1 &amp; 1 &amp; 0 \\         0 &amp; 0 &amp; 1 \\         \end{bmatrix} $$  with respect to  $\beta$.  How to change this matrix with respect to standard basis? Was the Wookiee language fully designed or is it just random emotionally-relevant sounds? We know that some of the other Star Wars languages were fairly well developed by the movie's creators, in terms of vocabulary, grammar, etc.  Was the Wookiee language designed in this level of detail or did they just try to put together sounds that made sense emotionally? It would be nice to be able to put emphasis on specific bits of a fragment or of a quote (bold can help for a quote but I find that it makes things less readable sometimes). What do you think? Update: On , you can highlight particular lines by prefixing each line with @@. 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So is there any method by which I could add a security measure that prevents complete access to my recovery and/or boot loader that will make my phone less insecure?!  Expected answer: Method by which a custom pin/password must be entered before entering the bootloader/recovery. So that my bootloader/recovery is still technically unlocked but simply requires authentication to use (this also ensures that conventional unlocking methods won't work as the phone is not really locked!). This also means that one does not have to lose root access to ensure security! Do immature fruits perform photosynthesis? Most immature fruits are green: peppers, pine cones, plums, lots of them. I want to know if the green is from chlorophyll in the cells. Do the fruit cells perform photosynthesis? When you cover a green stem or leaf, it will turn pale and stretch. That is because the stems have little need for chlorophyll in the dark, which is why they are pale. 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Update:  To clarify, assume I have superuser access on the machine and I can read everybody's private keys. Is it possible to adjust the frame rate of viewport playback? Is it possible to play an animation in the viewport at a slow framerate?  Just because of the rather heavy scene it's already going at about 8 fps, but I would like to be able to play it even slower (an in a controlled manner) for the purpose of recording an animation with automatic keyframes. If humans were able to catch all sun energy reaching the earth for their use, will the climate change? I guess that energy will be used up and, at the end, will contribute to heat the earth, so I see no big differences...  please explain your point of view. Is Dyson Sphere a stable construction? Suppose that a star is encompassed by a . Do we need a position control system for the Dyson Sphere to keep its origin always aligned with the center of the star? 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Is making the controls public on the other form considered "best practice"? Is there a "better" way to access controls on another form?  Further Explanation:  This is actually a sort of follow-up to another question I asked, . The answer I got was great and solved many, many organizational problems I was having in terms of keeping the UI straight and easy to work with both in run-time and design-time. However, it did bring up this one niggling issue of easily controlling other aspects of the interface.  Basically, I have a root form that instantiates a lot of other forms that sit in a panel on the root form. So, for instance, a radio button on one of those sub-forms might need to alter the state of a status strip icon on the main, root form. In that case, I need the sub-form to talk to the control in the status strip of the parent (root) form. (I hope that makes sense, not in a "who's on first" kind of way.) New navigation doesn't appear to alert of question changes when watching a tag I am watching the  tag on Stack Overflow. My filter looks like this:    I do not receive notification of new questions. Previously I'd get notifications like this:    This notification does work when watching the  page of Meta.   Are notifications only active for a certain set of filter options? If so, what are they? If not, can we get them back when watching pages other than the main page? What's a word for someone who is constantly asking for same thing? Hi I'm looking for a word for someone who is constantly asking for something and keeps wanting updates about it. The closest words I can think of is pushy and, to a lesser extent, annoying. But clearly these words don't directly mean what I intend. Is there a word for someone who somewhat delights in their illnesses/medications? Merging two xml files in C# without appending and without deleting anything (example given)