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Used to work in an office overlooking this bridge. When a crash happened all work ceased and we’d gather around a window to gawk at the accident. Sometimes it f
by davefol 3y ago
Used to work in an office overlooking this bridge. When a crash happened all work ceased and we’d gather around a window to gawk at the accident. Sometimes it felt like they came in clusters.
I felt extra bad when it was a rental.
- maxbond 3y agoInterestingly random events like this do tend to cluster. There are lots of arrangements where clusters exist and very few where it doesn't, so clustering is a lower entropy state. Plane crashes are similar. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_clumping https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_clumping https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/109390/how-odd-is-a-cluster-of-plane-accidents https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/109390/how-odd-is-...