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Why aren't particles constantly "measured" by the whole universe? Let's say we are doing the double slit experiment with electrons. We get an interference pattern, and if we put detectors at slits, then we get two piles pattern because we measure electrons' positions when going through slits. But an electron interacts with other particles in a lot of different ways, e.g. electric field, gravity. Seems like the whole universe is receiving information about the electron's position. Why is it not the case and the electron goes through slits "unmeasured"?  Bonus question: in real experiments do we face the problem of not "shielding" particles from "measurement" good enough and thus getting a mix of both patterns on the screen? I want to do something like:  MyObject myObj = GetMyObj(); // Create and fill a new object MyObject newObj = myObj.Clone();   And then make changes to the new object that are not reflected in the original object.  I don't often need this functionality, so when it's been necessary, I've resorted to creating a new object and then copying each property individually, but it always leaves me with the feeling that there is a better or more elegant way of handling the situation.  How can I clone or deep copy an object so that the cloned object can be modified without any changes being reflected in the original object? What do viruses do? There are those big green spiked things that my friends call viruses. I don't know what they do and I want to know. Do the viruses do something to the device you are playing on? Are they good or bad? Diagnostics for logistic regression? I have a huge amount of 2D-coordinates, associated with a value, e.g.:    x   |   y   | value 27.50   52.15   12.51 61.83   13.32   57.56 36.23   21.83   41.73 40.46   85.67   25.20 ...   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Let $X_1, X_2$ be two independent Poisson random variables with mean $\lambda_1, \lambda_2$, and $S_2 =  a_1 X_1+a_2 X_2$, where the $a_1$ and $a_2$ are constants, then the probability-generating function of $S_2$ is given by $$ G_{S_2}(z) = \operatorname{E}(z^{S_2})= \operatorname{E}(z^{a_1 X_1+a_2 X_2}) G_{X_1}(z^{a_1})G_{X_2}(z^{a_2}). $$ Now, using the fact that the probability-generating function for a Poisson random variable is $G_{X_i}(z) = \textrm{e}^{\lambda_i(z - 1)}$, we can write the probability-generating function of the sum of the two independent Poisson random variables as $$ \begin{aligned} G_{S_2}(z) &amp;= \textrm{e}^{\lambda_1(z^{a_1} - 1)}\textrm{e}^{\lambda_2(z^{a_2} - 1)}  \\ &amp;= \textrm{e}^{\lambda_1(z^{a_1} - 1)+\lambda_2(z^{a_2} - 1)}. \end{aligned} $$ It seems that the probability mass function of $S_2$ is recovered by taking derivatives of $G_{S_2}(z)$ $\operatorname{Pr}(S_2 = k) = \frac{G_{S_2}^{(k)}(0)}{k!}$, where $G_{S_2}^{(k)} = \frac{d^k G_{S_2}(z)}{ d z^k}$.  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