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Bernoulli process

Have you ever blown on a piece of paper and watched it float in the air? That's kind of how the Bernoulli process works.

The Bernoulli process is a fancy way of saying a sequence of events that can either happen or not happen, with a certain probability for each event. Imagine flipping a coin - it can either land heads or tails, and each outcome has an equal chance of happening.

Another way to understand the Bernoulli process is by thinking about a simple experiment. For example, let's say you want to know if your cat will catch a mouse. Each time your cat sees a mouse, there's a certain chance that it will catch it. If we do this experiment many times over, we can create a sequence of events: catch a mouse or don't catch a mouse.

In the Bernoulli process, each event has a probability of happening, just like the cat catching a mouse. We can use these probabilities to calculate the likelihood of a certain outcome or sequence of outcomes.

So there you have it, the Bernoulli process is just a fancy way of talking about events that have a certain probability of happening or not happening.