Poisson-distribution on Dimitris Kokoretsis https://dimitris.netlify.app/tags/poisson-distribution/ Recent content in Poisson-distribution on Dimitris Kokoretsis Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Mon, 08 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Football goals and coin flips: discovering the law of rare events https://dimitris.netlify.app/posts/football-goals/ Mon, 08 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://dimitris.netlify.app/posts/football-goals/ <img src="https://dimitris.netlify.app/posts/football-goals/images/intro_figure.gif"/> “To state a theorem and then to show examples of it is literally to teach backwards.” (E. Kim Nebeuts) Ever felt excited for discovering something that is already kinda known? Not necessarily for the discovery itself, but because you achieved it on your own and actually overcame an obstacle with it. This is how I feel about this story, and hopefully you will too. Starting from a small puzzle about football, we’re going to build the solution from scratch and see how -without knowing it- we just applied the law of rare events.