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Re: List animals until failure

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Post by eru »

cainxinth wrote: post #99
monopoliessuck wrote: post #61

I added Jellyfish and then Portuguese Man-o-war. It took the man o war, but crossed out Jellyfish and said "added a vaguer term", but a jellyfish and a man-o-war are discrete animals. The man-o-war is a colonial siphonophore composed of zooids, while a jellyfish is a singular marine organism. They're both in the phylum Cnidaria, and that would have been a more vague term had I entered it.

It raises the question: can a colony of individual animals (zooids in this case) that work cooperatively be called a singular animal itself? I think biologists say yes, but it’s an interesting taxonomic boundary.

We think cows are singular animals, despite being made up of lots of different organisms with different DNA. (Much of the diversity happening in the gut.)

Re: List animals until failure

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Post by eru »

moron4hire wrote: post #106
bigDinosaur wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Many people now know that a tomato is a fruit, and will distinguish it with exactly the 'did you know a tomato is not a vegetable?' fun fact, so I'm not sure this is a great point. If someone asked me to list vegetables and they were being rigorous about it I wouldn't list a tomato. If they're not being rigorous about it then anything goes really - sometimes you can put things like apples in a salad so that must be a…

A tomato is definitely a vegetable. Botanically, there are no such things as vegetables. The classification of a thing as a "vegetable" is strictly a culinary distinction. Cucumbers, tomatoes, apples, oranges, they're all the fruit of the plant, but the first two are culinarily classified as vegetables and the last two as fruits. Also, salad is a preparation method, specifically the chopping of ingredients and the ap…

Apples are not fruit in the strict botanical sense.

> Apples are considered "accessory fruits" (or sometimes termed "false fruits") rather than true botanical fruits because the fleshy, edible part develops primarily from the flower's hypanthium or receptacle, not just the ovary. The actual, true fruit is the core containing the seeds, making it a pome.

Re: List animals until failure

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Post by grimgrin »

elias1233 wrote: post #75

I created a similar game but where you can enter any category, for example programming languages, car brands or whatever. Of course uses LLMs https://gissallt.eliasf.se/

Not of course. You could have compiled datasets. Matter of fact I think that would be cooler for something with definitive lists

LLMs could compile it for you, by sourcing X Y and Z

Re: List animals until failure

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Post by rlue »

eru wrote: post #111
cainxinth wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It raises the question: can a colony of individual animals (zooids in this case) that work cooperatively be called a singular animal itself? I think biologists say yes, but it’s an interesting taxonomic boundary.

We think cows are singular animals, despite being made up of lots of different organisms with different DNA. (Much of the diversity happening in the gut.)

I suspect all mammals depend on colonies of gut flora to survive. Humans are no exception.

Re: List animals until failure

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Post by moron4hire »

eru wrote: post #112
moron4hire wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A tomato is definitely a vegetable. Botanically, there are no such things as vegetables. The classification of a thing as a "vegetable" is strictly a culinary distinction. Cucumbers, tomatoes, apples, oranges, they're all the fruit of the plant, but the first two are culinarily classified as vegetables and the last two as fruits. Also, salad is a preparation method, specifically the chopping of ingredients and the ap…

Apples are not fruit in the strict botanical sense. > Apples are considered "accessory fruits" (or sometimes termed "false fruits") rather than true botanical fruits because the fleshy, edible part develops primarily from the flower's hypanthium or receptacle, not just the ovary. The actual, true fruit is the core containing the seeds, making it a pome.

My point still stands

Re: List animals until failure

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Post by etothepii »

This was a lot of fun.

The game mechanic of a count down timer made for much better play.

I was most surprised for bluebottle to be replaced with man o' war. We know the man o' war here in bermud by that name whereas a bluebottle is what I would call house fly.

Re: List animals until failure

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Post by Scarblac »

cainxinth wrote: post #99
monopoliessuck wrote: post #61

I added Jellyfish and then Portuguese Man-o-war. It took the man o war, but crossed out Jellyfish and said "added a vaguer term", but a jellyfish and a man-o-war are discrete animals. The man-o-war is a colonial siphonophore composed of zooids, while a jellyfish is a singular marine organism. They're both in the phylum Cnidaria, and that would have been a more vague term had I entered it.

It raises the question: can a colony of individual animals (zooids in this case) that work cooperatively be called a singular animal itself? I think biologists say yes, but it’s an interesting taxonomic boundary.

I think the bacteria in your gut outnumber the human cells in your body.
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