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Comment by refibrillator

4 hours ago

Hmm in distributed computer systems similar patterns exist, e.g. adding jitter to avoid thundering herd effects.

This feels like an essential pattern of the universe or something…

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HPsquared  3 hours ago

"Spread spectrum" is used in EE to spread out the frequency ranges used and reduce interference. The extreme version being CDMA.

  • username135  3 hours ago

    Intriguing

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