Quote from: minute_of_angle on May 29, 2011, 07:07:52 AM

So just artifact of the averaging ... how boring.

Edit: Would be good if we got some kind of measure for how extreme the variance of the current block generation rate is ...

This is actually troubling. Law of averages say that random wild excursions from the mean without any other input (like someone turning off the NSA's rig

) should be very rare, and the larger the excursion, the more rare.

Im sure someone is doing some stats analysis to see if this the fluctuations are expected or a very rare anomaly - if they're happenign too frequently, then either ther'es very large flux in computation rate for a reason (NSA, or a major blackout somewhere, or internet outrage), or someone's not aggregating hashrates properly.

as you say, tracking the variance and assigning a statistical value to its probability would be useful. cept i failed stats class.