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So kind of similar to Open AI incident?

I had tried astro for my personal website when it was released. It was a mess for me. I couldn't keep with so many components. I keep breaking things, one way or the other. I might…

Yes. Kind of. They showed that birds can do function/meaning of calls (e.g., contact call group) using the meaning not other cues (e.g. duration, acoustic similarity of calls etc.)…

Generally, you test birds in a series of discrimination experiments. So for this example, the discrimination task would be distance calls vs contact calls. Let's say, birds learn t…

Yeah, the paper is indeed difficult to read (even for me). I read it a while back. I'll try to explain. So, there are few things to know before and see what we're trying to prove. …

I work in the field. The main takeaway is zebra finches (maybe other songbirds) can discriminate vocalizations based on function, even if they sound similar. Generally, birds can t…

I get google scholar alerts according to authors.

Interesting. Btw I agree with some of the comments. The framing/language of the question is a bit weird.

I can relate. I remember my most used syntax, but I have to search once in a while.

I would be in minority. But, I don't like tidyverse ecosystem. I prefer data.table for most of my uses.

Another alternative is raincloud plot (depending on data).

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If the Claude team care for feedback for the free model. I'm using the free model via chat from the beginning. This is the first time, I'm seriously considering moving away from Cl…

That would be something. Definitely more exciting. But, from I have seen so far, the models are not there yet. It's a tricky situation for people who might want to work on hard pro…

Relatable. Motivation is crucial for any task and most of time they are not motivated to do what you want.

I mean regarding the domains of intelligence and how to test them. With humans, performance in one cognitive test correlates with another and so on, generally. So, intelligence acr…

I work on some aspects of intelligence in birds, primarily in songbirds. There have been some effort finding general intelligence ("g" cognitive factor) in birds since last 15-20 y…

That's true. I was much younger back then to notice about privacy. Yeah, it was pretty bad incorporating G+ account to everything. The way the G+ worked (at least in my friend circ…

Ghost town was the best part, for users like me. I didn't want another fb or insta. The circles and community were great.

I think Google closed Google+ because it worked as social media and they couldn't find better ways to exploit users.

Interesting but not surprising to me. Once a field expert guides the models, they most likely will reach a solution. The models are good at lazy work for experts. For hard or compl…

I was saying generally. I don't work in maths. PhD students do lots of other things than research. If we ask a PhD student to just solve these kinds of problems and nothing else, t…

I don't think so. I went through the output of Opus 4.6 vs GPT 5.4 pro. Both are given different directions/prompts. Opus 4.6 was asked to test and verify many things. Opus 4.6 tri…

> Funding a few PhDs for a year costs orders of magnitude more than it did to solve this problem in inference costs. I don't think PhD students are sitting around and solving one p…