Whalesong patterns follow a universal law of human language, new research finds (phys.org)

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Zipf's law!!!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_distribution

Zipf's Law is rad

Hell yeah dude! 😎

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Unfortunate that we have no Rosetta Stone. Meaning a large language model might know how to respond, but not how to translate.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Nobody tell Michael Stevens/vsauce, he'll make a whole video on it.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

I mean someone tell him. Last upload was 2 years ago, what happened?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

He's been doing shorts and Curiosity Box instead according to Vsauce2.

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