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threatrippertoday at 10:05 AM1 replyview on HN

1/f noise basically kills averaging. You collect more signal but at the same time equally more noise.


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rcxdudetoday at 10:12 AM

Yup, it has the fun property that you'll get the same error in your estimate of the mean regardless of averaging time (though since it's not stationary this isn't even really that well defined).

(though of course, a random walk means you'll get even worse as you measure for longer...)