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Enjoy your swim in the oceans surrounding Hawaii—just don’t get too close to the wildlife. Officials with the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources have referred 33 swimmers to U.S. law enforcement after the large group was allegedly following a group of dolphins in Hōnaunau Bay on the coast of the Big Island on Sunday morning. Rare Polar Bear Attack in Canada | Extreme EarthAs seen in drone footage and pictures released by the Department yesterday, the 33 swimmers approached a pod of spinner dolphins and were…

Nintendo might be making it harder to play its older games on official hardware, but there are other options if you know where to look. One of them is about to be a lot easier to find: Dolphin, a popular emulator that runs most GameCube and Wii titles, will be launching on Steam later this year. Dolphin is already available for free, but launching on Steam could make using the emulator more straightforward on devices like the Steam Deck, where dropping to desktop mode and manually installing programs can be a little…

Dolphin, a popular video game emulator for Wii and GameCube games, is currently set to hit Steam Early Access later this year. The emulation software’s Steam store page went live today. Although the page’s software description can’t directly name Nintendo’s consoles, Dolphin Emulator’s Steam description boasts about how it can play “classics from the big N’s cube-shaped and motion-controlled consoles” in 4K with modern controller support, hacked widescreen and HD texture packs, better frame rates, local…

Nintendo emulator Dolphin is coming to Steam this year, though it’s already available on its website for fans who don’t want to wait. Dolphin is used to emulate Nintendo’s Wii and GameCube consoles on PC, allowing fans to play a number of Nintendo games without owning their relevant console. However, as Dolphin’s website points out, fans still require owning a copy of the game to play them legally. Dolphin’s newly-launched Steam page reiterates that point, stating fans “must own an original copy of any game you want to…

There may be a totally non-violent reason that an orca near Iceland was spotted caring for a pilot whale calf. But given what we know of orcas—a species infamous for breaking the spines of dolphins and eating the livers of unlucky great white sharks—you’ll forgive us for being a little suspicious.Researchers studying orcas off the western coast of Iceland spotted one apparently raising a pilot whale calf as its own offspring. That’s a little weird. Pilot whales are ordinarily prey for the larger cetaceans, which are…

Image: Pegasus BooksAuthor Laline Paull scored a hit with her 2015 debut The Bees, dubbed “The Handmaid’s Tale meets The Hunger Games,” but with bees as its characters. Her latest, Pod, dives into a different aspect of the natural world—the ocean—by introducing an adventurous dolphin who follows an unconventional path. io9 has an excerpt to share today from this intriguing new novel.Here’s a description of Pod’s story, followed by its cover, prologue, and first three chapters.Ea has always felt like an outsider. As a…

How regularization works and when to use itWhat is regularization?Regularization is a technique used in machine learning to help fix a problem we all face in this space; when a model performs well on training data but poorly on new, unseen data — a problem known as overfitting.One of the telltale signs I have fallen into the trap of overfitting (and thus needing regularization) is when the model performs great on the training data but terribly on the test data. The reason this happens is that the model learns all the…

A common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus).Image: Shutterstock (Shutterstock)A new study suggests dolphins can suffer from some of the same brain ailments as humans. Scientists in Scotland say they’ve found evidence across three species of dolphins that their brains can develop the classic markers of Alzheimer’s disease. The findings could help explain why dolphins regularly become stranded on land, but more research will be needed to confirm whether they trulyexperience Alzheimer’s-like illness.Alzheimer’s disease…

The common bottlenose dolphin is one of the most well-studied marine mammals in the world. Yet in the last few decades, genetic research has revealed scientists aren't looking at a single species after all, but various lineages still very much in the process of evolving.Researchers at the University of Miami have split what was historically thought to be one dolphin species (Tursiops truncatus) in the Pacific Ocean into a few distinct subtypes.In the offshore waters of the Eastern Tropical Pacific (ETP), between Baja…

Exploring the Causes and Solutions for Overfitting in Machine Learning ModelsPhoto by fabio on UnsplashOverfitting in machine learning is a common problem that occurs when a model is trained so much on the training dataset that it learns specific details about the training data that don’t generalise well, and cause poor performance on new, unseen data. Overfitting can happen for a variety of reasons, but ultimately it leads to a model that is not able to generalize well and make accurate predictions on data it has not…