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Sidney Redner on Statistics and Everyday Life

COMPLEXITY

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Firefly Synchronization

Even though their trajectories are independent, the loading process makes them highly correlated. And so that instability just feeds on itself. If there's more passengers than average, than that one elevator is spending a long time waiting,. and so's more time for the next elevator to come to the lobby  and catch up to the elevator that's ykno loading up to capacity.

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