surprisal for dogs
today's Frazz comic:
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i don't know if anybody has actually done research on dogs' abilities to learn frequency-based patterns (although we had cottontop tamarins not so long ago). and unlike the grammarpattern-sensitive monkeys, Mario didn't even wait to confirm the probability-based prediction, he just went for it.