Great work on this. Hopefully you are able to crack a code that finally allows us to participate in the conversation.
It has always intrigued me that animals recognize when humans are in the area and in general designate a member of the group to monitor us to determine our intentions. I feel like they are experts at human gesture recognition, able to detect intent just from the context of the motions and that some monitor whether we have anything in our hands that could be used against them.
It's hilarious that mockingbirds and other birds will dive bomb people wandering too close to a nest and it's entertaining to think that part of their vocalizing is probably just a series of warnings, epithets and insults as they are forced to take action against the oblivious intruder who bumbled into their territory.
Vocalizations by any animal are just band-limited signals. If we can figure out which frequency components carry the information and derive information about the encoding then we can decipher it.
Thanks for posting. Googling elsewhere it seems only about 5% of tinnitus is objective as in being audible in a stethoscope or similar. Though it's remarkable how sensitive the ear is. Apparently at the threshold of human hearing the vibrations at the basilar membrane are of the order of 1/1000 of the width of an atom so I guess there could be stuff going on that you can't pick up with a microphone/stethoscope, perhaps.
I did some more reading on how the ear works and I think my comment on there being positive feedback is wrong. Looking at how the bits are laid out and wired up it looks more like it uses amplified negative feedback in the manner of an op amp. The diagram I looked at is in Purves et al, Neuroscience 5th edition. I'm now thinking the tinnitus may be from the input maxing out when the negative feedback breaks. From a practical point I've found carrying wax earplugs helps
my ears recover.
You're really just interpreting bytes as characters in a different character set. "Visualizing hex bytes" suggests something slightly different, like using an emoji for each of the digits 0-9 and A-F (not much unlike the other proposals for writing hex digits, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bruce_Martin_hexadecimal_n... .)
