flora_explora

Oh, you're thinking of wasps like yellowjackets. "Fig wasp" uses the taxonomic term for wasp. There are hundreds of thousands of parasitic wasp species out there that most people aren't familiar with. Fig wasps are gall wasps and are really tiny! Like so small you can hardly see them by the naked eye. It is fascinating how so small beings can fly distances of many kilometers when they are only a millimeter in size.

Apart from the cultivar part, I don't think that's true. Apparently even Aristotle has spoken about fig wasps (without really understanding what they are or do of course). So maybe there are some cultivars that are self a pollinating now, but it seems like all non-cultivated fig trees are dependent on this kind of pollination. And btw, there aren't a "few" wild species, there are over 850 of them!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproductive_coevolution_in_Ficus?wprov=sfla1

Yeah sure I'll eat figs. You don't eat the fig wasps as they have been eaten by the fig already. If I knew there was a fig wasp still inside, I wouldn't eat it though.

Yes exactly. They are both dependent on each other in that way.

And to add on to that, figs are super important food trees in the tropics, because they are the only trees that produce fruits all year around. (Because they have to, otherwise the fig wasp population couldn't sustain itself.) So many animal species are also dependent on the steady food source of fig trees (btw most look very different from the common fig tree, Ficus carica).

Oof, this whole email exchange reads super misogynistic, but this one here in particular! Poor Faith :(

I think what that means is that both AI and language learners often use more formal language. If you are learning a new language you usually start by visiting classes or other formal and structured resources. But native speakers don't actually use that idealized form of language very much. I guess that the training set of AI was mostly texts written in more formal language and/or that there isn't a strong enough consistent bias for most informal language.

Especially because most of the corn eaten in the rest of the Americas isn't sweet at all. It's more equivalent of rice, pasta, potatoes, etc...

Oooh, nice!!

Cool! And it mentions "Inside Nature’s Giants"!!

Looking at the R community, it seems like this isn't necessarily true. You can find so many resources to very niche problems. The main difference seems to be that there are many people working with R because large companies like Google use it. The same is probably true for Python as well, but I'm not as familiar with it.

Most of Europe I'd say...

I feel like behaving like this is just kicking down. People doing scam calls are also just people and usually in a financially worse situation than who they are trying to call. Not even that, it is especially often people from the global south that we comparatively rich people from the global north exploit and gain our wealth from. And instead of trying to look at the big picture and seeing who the biggest scammer is (the capitalist system itself), most people just bully the ones that are worse off than them... I get that it feels way much more personal and tragic when a grandma loses all her savings to a small group of scammers. But the damages and losses done by large corporations (that also created the desperate circumstances and the motivation of the scammers in the first place) outweigh these scams billions of times. So please show some decency and treat them like normal people.