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How Roger Fell In Love With Whale Song
- Roger Paine first heard a navy recording and became obsessed after playing it repeatedly.
- He played the tape so often it woke him in the morning and revealed repeating musical structure in humpback song.
Animal Voice Can Drive Conservation Policy
- Amplifying an animal's voice changed public perception and policy.
- Once whale song entered culture and media, public pressure contributed to the 1982 commercial whaling moratorium.
Language As A Geometric Cloud
- Machine learning represents words as high-dimensional clouds where analogies are geometric.
- Examples like princess minus girl plus man equals king show these vector relationships can encode semantic structure.