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Changeling poet, musician and writer, born on the 13th floor. Left of counter-clockwise and right of the white rabbit, all twilight and sunrises, forever the inside outsider.

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Cake day: June 24th, 2023

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  • There are two immediate flaws I see with the study. The first is the sound quality of the youtube videos, which have been engineered to human hearing. Dogs hear frequencies high above the human range, and it’s highly likely their vocalizations carry nuance and context in the upper frequency. A simple microphone recording won’t do - you need something with high sensitivity and minimal distortion, and you have to ensure the digitization of the sound file doesn’t interfere with the quality for those higher ranges.

    The second is the sound input into the analysis, which also should be tuned for these higher frequencies - I find it unlikely that the AI was matching frequencies above human hearing to generate dog “words”.

    In essence, they’re analyzing how humans hear dogs speak, not how dogs speak to each other. To do so properly, an ideal research setting would be one of dogs interacting live with each other, with sound recording equipment that can match the quality of canine hearing.

    That being said, it’s a fascinating work, and I understand that the researchers were working with the data on hand - definitely shows promise for continued study.





  • Saw your post and I got curious, as it’s clear your new threads aren’t appearing on the instances you’re posting to.

    Test run shows that posting to lemmy.world is working for my account: https://lemmy.world/post/6641504 .

    There’s a couple things that could be happening, but I’m gonna go with my gut and ask do you have any domains blocked? There’s been repeated issues with domain blocking affecting your ability to post (in fact, I had to clear all my domain blocking to properly post to kbin). This is the first thing I’d check.

    The next thing would be to see if those instances or communities banned you. This seems unlikely, as it’s affecting you on both lemmy.world and lemmy.blahaj.zone. The last thing could be that these communities have defederated or blocked kbin users due to past spam issues (@Technology is still blocked on lemmy.world due to this), but I haven’t seen it implemented in this way before.

    But I’d start with the domain blocking - 90% of the time when people have problems posting on kbin, that’s the cause.














  • Newsom, we get it - you want to run for president. But don’t fuck up my state to do it.

    You’ve done ok in CA when you’ve kept your mouth shut and followed in Brown’s footsteps, but this latest bullshit display of throwing widely popular progressive initiatives (this one passed 66 to 9) under the bus is a slap in the face to all Californians, proving yet again that you’re an empty neo-liberal suit playing progressive to pander to the public.

    California is not your billboard for a future presidential run. Do your damn job and stop using your veto pen to try to appeal to voters who aren’t even your constituents yet.