Gaussian Process in daily life
My home is in a tropical region in India in between two rivers. Very scenic, I know. But it also means that I have experienced a lot of rain and flooding in where I stay. Exhibit A : River flooding my ancestral home One of those rainy days (when the river hadn't yet reached the house), I set out to measure the increase/decrease of water level at the river. We had been experiencing a lot of rain in the past few days and due to a possibility of risk of floods, school was closed, with nothing better left to do, I decided to check the water level near the river. I would fix my ruler onto the ground next to the river and read off the markings against the water line. I would check the readings every 1-2 hours or so. I have a bunch of collection of river water readings from those days, I would bet with my grandmom whether the water level was going to increase or decrease based on those readings lol. Anyway, it was just a fun experiment for me then, but as a researcher, now...