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Signal in the Noise

Data Skeptic

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Developing an Eye for Observing Bees

The speaker has trained their eye to observe bees in videos by labeling numerous frames, allowing them to quickly identify and understand the behavior of individual bees even when others find it chaotic. Slowing down footage helps in identifying bees' positions and behaviors, such as their distinctive antennae positions. The argument that bees' behaviors are purely mechanical, like a wind-up toy, is challenged by the speaker, who believes that even with computation involved, there is no clear dividing line between mechanical and sentient behavior, drawing an analogy to the skeletal or muscle systems.

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