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by davefol 1046 days 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.

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Interestingly 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://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/109390/how-odd-is-...