Has anyone else encountered this, or is it just selective memory?
It seems that sometimes you can get a run of found blocks. Granted, this has only happened twice to me, but still think its odd.
monerohash's found blocks
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I'd guess this is just human propensity to look for patterns where there may or may not be any.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia
Very common in gambling.
It's a common bias for humans when dealing with poisson distributions. For instance we often have the impression plane crashes happen in series, in a non random way.