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It's a graduate student writing a journal club article about the Lewicki 2002 paper, which is very good, and whose abstract states the idea more precisely: "The form of the code depends on sound class, resembling a Fourier transformation when optimized for animal vocalizations and a wavelet transformation when optimized for non-biological environmental sounds"


TFA doesn't even mention the human habit of stealing food from mice, for example

https://ojs.ethnobiology.org/index.php/ebl/article/view/1605...


Same reason there are still 5 senses, because it's easier to teach than the truth


Dark Sky


I cannot believe they didn’t replicate the Dark Sky functionality 1:1 in the Weather app.


the math version of this idea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41566446


It was widely used on slashdot, I just assume that people who use this Three Letter Acronym (TLA) are also /. refugees


Adm Greenert nicely describes the attitude toward early 90s sub movies (Hunt for Red October vs Crimson Tide). For this audience, in addition to driving maneuvers, he might have added that the main premise of Red October (a clipped message) never could have happened under the existing communication protocol.


TLAs FTW!



Wait I thought we were supposed to eat more low-hanging fruit...


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