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Wolves Howl In Different 'Dialects,' Machine Learning Finds (vice.com)
derekmead writes: Differentiating wolf howls with human ears can prove tricky, so researchers have turned to computer algorithms to suss out if different wolf species howl differently. They think that understanding wolf howls could help improve wolf conservation and management programs. In a study published in the journal Behavioural Processes, a group of international researchers describe using machine learning for the first time to analyze 2,000 wolf howls gathered from both wild and domesticated wolves and their subspecies from around the world.
Are you listening?
Because no-one every needs to google for strange Americanisms./sarcasm
(fwiw as an Australian I find nothing suss about the phrase suss out, so I suspect it's just the Americans who are a bit suss here)
...kiecrisp.
What did the Eastern Timber Wolf say to the Great Plains Wolf? "You have the worst accent..."
Your not knowing something doesn't mean a damned thing.
Many of us know the word, that fact that you've got a lousy vocabulary is your problem.
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Dude, don't lump me in with him. I think most of us Americans know what suss out means.
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it's HOWL it's said
And if we don't, we'll suss it out eventually.
Have gnu, will travel.
1) we knew what the wolves were saying, and by the way, do dogs howl in different languages? and
2) the poster sent us to a non-firewalled version of the story, which the authors can do but apparently haven't. (Grr. Elsevier)
Might as well face it I'm addicted to data.
You probably don't, but many others of us here are eclectic.
If we knew what they were trying to communicate, we'd probably find they have different languages too. Same as with people, without long distance travel/communication there's no reason to believe they'd share a language. We've seen this both on the macro scale through colonization wiping out many local languages and on the micro scale through building bridges to islands, linguists found that dialects became much less distinct. And with mass media and the Internet I'm sure we're converging even stronger now. Wolves have none of that so I'm sure a US wolf wouldn't understand much of what a EU wolf was howling, but I'm sure they'd quickly work out the basics.
Live today, because you never know what tomorrow brings
And grammaratical errors for what you say to be taken seriously.
While we're at it, let's not forget the contributions to the English language that come from The Great White North:
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~steffa...
http://geekmom.com/2013/12/55-...
http://mentalfloss.com/article...
http://www.americansguide.ca/i...
http://www.craigmarlatt.com/ca...
That's enough for now. Note in particular that Canadians can say "homo milk" without giggling.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
Perhaps it's a regional thing -- for example, it's not exactly rare to hear that phrase in the South.
I guess anything but trivial clustering algorithms are "machine learning", but rather than "using machine learning" it'd be more straightforward to describe them as having "applied a clustering algorithm" to see if calls can be grouped into, well, different clusters. That is an idea that's been floating around biology now and then, with a lot of work on clustering bird calls especially.
10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
Counter-intelligence.
Assemble a predatory army to intercept airborne enemy communications.
Gary Larson predicted this.
Are you listening, wile e coyote scientist @ obscure location at hidden lab?
Aroooooooooooooo! Arooooooooooo!
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
...ducks quack in different dialects as well. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk/...
Suss you and the horse you rode in on!
Hillary Clinton howls? I'm sure it's heavily inflected with notes of greed, avarice, and lies.
wolf howls from construction sites?
Sounds like a textbook case of unsupervised learning. Andrew Ng would be proud.
That was the turning point of my life--I went from negative zero to positive zero.
Time to rehash an old show and re-center it around a plucky, but mildly introverted, genius kid who is developing the tech to talk to wolves while the rest of the crew engage in zany adventures sailing the Great Plains in their steam punk land submarine.
See subject: KNOWS this - they all have their own unique & distinct voices - ones that are EASILY distinguishable from each others too (+ they know words like YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE).
APK
P.S.=> As Gary Oldman said in "Dracula": "There is MUCH TO BE LEARNED, from beasts..." & MANY times? I feel they're BETTER PEOPLE than people are...
... apk