Information entropy of humpback whale songsa)

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@TapeYourWebcam @Dr_CovfefeMD @TDisputations https://t.co/S9ymvLmZMb

entropy of whale song, < 1 bit/s: https://t.co/TWLyMl7cmF max entropy of human speech, ~ 39 bit/s? (this presumably would be stuff like guns and ships, with the norm being a lot lower): https://t.co/qOJpLZ4Pho

Inspiringly, you can derive this with information theory: https://t.co/JYZfG2Vod2 Also, whalesong has 1 bit of information per second, compared to human's 39 bits. For those keeping score, that's 1 trillionth the information density. But they're whales…

@NandoDF There's some evidence of grammar in whale songs: https://t.co/zjgBy0qJPP, https://t.co/mxTqz61hkn

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