[HN Gopher] How to Speak Honeybee
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How to Speak Honeybee
Author : yshklarov
Score : 59 points
Date : 2022-12-06 23:19 UTC (23 hours ago)
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| hammock wrote:
| >Perhaps Seeley's most startling finding was that, in choosing a
| new home, honeybees exhibit sophisticated forms of democratic
| decision-making, including collective fact-finding, vigorous
| debate, consensus building, quorum and a complex stop signal
| enabling cross-inhibition, which prevents an impasse being
| reached
|
| And he discovered this with just a camera and computer vision/ML!
| [deleted]
| culi wrote:
| Good time to plug the incredible Honeyland documentary.[0] It's
| rather short and doesn't have any explicit lesson in mind but
| somehow it was one of the few documentaries I find myself
| regularly thinking about over and over and learning new lessons
| from.
|
| [0] https://honeyland.earth/
| hammock wrote:
| _> Contradicting prevailing scientific views, his findings
| demonstrated that honeybees possessed learning, memory and the
| ability to share information through symbolic communication, a
| form of abstract language. As he wrote to a confidante in 1946:
| "If you now think I'm crazy, you'd be wrong. But I could
| certainly understand it."
|
| >Frisch was right to worry. When he finally went public, many
| scientists dismissed his research and argued that insects with
| such tiny brains were incapable of complex communication. The
| American biologist Adrian Wenner launched a challenge to Frisch's
| theory, arguing that bees locate foods solely by odors, a theory
| that was subsequently proved wrong, although odors are important
| signals for bees. Eventually, Frisch's results were definitively
| and independently validated, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize
| in 1973._
|
| The Nobel committee called the dismissal of Frisch's novel ideas
| "shameless vanity"
| calebm wrote:
| The more conscious you are, the more you can see consciousness in
| others (even when those others are very different from you)
| anigbrowl wrote:
| Fine writing, but a deplorable lack of references.
|
| _As one researcher cautiously noted in a landmark study of a
| newly identified bee signal_
|
| How do you fill a whole paragraph with a quote from a study but
| not link to the study, or or include the title, journal, or
| author?
|
| https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098221...
|
| _In the mid-2000s, Seeley convinced a computer engineer who was
| intrigued by the similarities between bee swarms and driverless
| cars [...] After two painstaking years, the algorithm finally
| worked:_
|
| WHO? WHERE? WHAT?
|
| https://www.goldengooseaward.org/01awardees/honey-bee-algori...
|
| I am sick to the back teeth of the wealthy parts of the media
| (Noema is hiring an editor at $110-160k for 5 years experience,
| which is pretty generous) pumping out content while short-
| changing their readers. Daily news outlets are constantly writing
| stories about court cases without ever citing the names of the
| cases, and gatekeeping their access to public documents for an
| easy buck. While I greatly enjoyed this article, I'm also
| mystified by the decision of the author or the editors to
| withhold germane information that would profit the reader.
| [deleted]
| bigoljim wrote:
| This reminded me of the Bee Dance Game[0] on Arizona State
| University's site.
|
| [0] https://askabiologist.asu.edu/bee-dance-game/play.html
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