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A comment on The Challenges of Animal Translation.

Re:The Challenges of Animal Translation by erichahn on Thursday April 29, 2021 @05:08AM (#26978908)
"Denise Herzing, the founder and research director of the nonprofit Wild Dolphin Project, which studies dolphins in the Atlantic, is now using similar algorithms, coupled with underwater keyboards and computers, to try to decode dolphin"

- Why does she need underwater computers?

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Re:The Challenges of Animal Translation by pvaldes on Thursday April 29, 2021 @05:19AM (#26978974)
Stationary sample points or hydrophones need software to filter and record the noise. Everything is a computer now.
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Re:The Challenges of Animal Translation by twic on Thursday April 29, 2021 @06:46AM (#26979505)
Dolphins love overclocking.
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Re:The Challenges of Animal Translation by failwhaleshark on Thursday April 29, 2021 @02:36PM (#26984761)
And, they have a tendency to eat all of the babelfish rather than listen to them. (I can't blame them.)
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