junonon Hacker News • Recommends
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I love Benn Jordan. If you liked this one, go check out the one where he stores a JPEG inside of a living bird. link to this video
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I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird
Benn Jordan
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Beginner. No background in the topic needed.
2.1M views1 year ago2 recommendations
Graphics and audioAudio and DSP
Benn Jordan explains how he encoded a PNG image into audio frequencies that a starling could memorize and reproduce.
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2 people recommend thisWhat people say. Recommended as an entertaining and fascinating crossover between audio engineering, data encoding, and ornithology.
nucleardogon Hacker News • Recommends
On “Humans 40k yrs ago developed a system of conventional signs”
I'd easily believe that bird songs are vastly more complex and interesting than we currently understand! If you haven't seen it, you might enjoy Benn Jordan's video of "saving" a PNG to a bird: link to this video (Besides the hook-y title, some interesting info on the acoustics of bird songs with some cross-over into tech.)
alteromon Hacker News • Mentions
On “I saved a PNG image to a bird”
…it's like playing several of those streams at once . The bird has shown itself to be capable of remembering and reproducing multiplexed frequency-keyed streams. >With enough birds I imagine you can store quite a bit of data. Takes saving to the cloud to another level. Literally a point made in the video³ at 18:34. ____________ ¹ link ² link ³ link to this video…
alteromon Hacker News • Mentions
On “I saved a PNG image to a bird”
> Time to teach all local birds the AACS key :) BTW, forgot to add: the video literally suggests that when they estimate how much data can be stored in birds. The visualization of the byte sequence coming out of the Bluetooth speaker 1 (at 18:36 -18:38) starts with the oh-so-familiar 09 F9 11 02 9D ... Ben is one step ahead of you :) 1 link to this video