https://notes.danavery.com/tags/animal-communication/Recent content in Animal-Communication on This Might Be Something!Hugoen-usMon, 30 Sep 2024 11:12:50 -0700https://notes.danavery.com/posts/2024-09-30-tree-language/Mon, 30 Sep 2024 11:12:50 -0700https://notes.danavery.com/posts/2024-09-30-tree-language/<p>From 2017: <a href="https://qz.com/1116991/a-biologist-believes-that-trees-speak-a-language-we-can-learn">A biologist believes that trees speak a language we can learn</a></p> <p>I haven&rsquo;t followed up yet on the book being written about here, but I do have the general sense that we&rsquo;re going to be surprised how many living things this will end up being true of.</p> <p>This is a large part of why machine learning is interesting to me. If it&rsquo;s about nothing else, machine learning is all about pattern recognition&ndash;finding patterns that are too complex for us to find on our own, or in a latent space that we aren&rsquo;t really able to comprehend. Like non-human communication.</p>