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### Human: What was the Counter Reformation? ### Assistant: The Counter Reformation was a Catholic religious movement which was in response to the Protestant Reformation and sought to strengthen the Catholic faith. |
### Human: How to raise a kitten? ### Assistant: When it comes to raise a kitten, it's like raising child. You need extra care and treat it with extra care. The first few months are a crucial time in shaping your kitten’s emotional and physical well-being. In the first 8 week, there're 4 things you should pay attention to, 1) Always keep kittens warm. Because kittens under four weeks of age do not have the ability to thermoregulate, you must help them maintain body warmth. A warmed Snuggle Safe disk at the opening of the cage or crate is a good idea. 2) Provide kittens with adequate nutrition. Kittens should gain about ½ ounce (14 grams) per day or 4 ounces (113 grams) per week. When feeding, The temperature of the formula before feeding should be warm to around 100oF or 38oC, but not too hot.3) Keep kittens clean. If kittens are orphaned and do not have a mom to regularly groom then, it is important to teach them to groom and keep them clean. It is okay to wash a kitten with warm water but focus only on the areas needing cleaned.4) Provide socialisation with people and with other kittens. It is good to get them used to contact with people when they're 3 weeks old. They could learn from their littermates and learning from their mom. Play is the best method to help them physically and socially develop. |
### Human: Who are the pianists that are considered masters in playing Bach's music? ### Assistant: Glenn Gould is one of the most famous pianists playing Bach's music with his distinct style of articulating the contrapuntal texture of Bach's music. Zhu Xiao-mei's recording of Bach's The Goldberg Variations is acclaimed as one of the best recording of this piece. American pianist Murray Perahia has also built up a repertoire of Bach's piano music that's loved by many people. |
### Human: What dog breed is a mix between a Cocker Spaniel and a Poodle? ### Assistant: Cockapoo |
### Human: What is the name of the largest red-light district in Amsterdam? ### Assistant: The largest red-light district in Amsterdam is De Wallen. |
### Human: What is Brdinje ### Assistant: Brdinje (pronounced [bəɾˈdiːnjɛ]) is a dispersed settlement in the hills southeast of Ravne na Koroškem in the Carinthia region in northern Slovenia |
### Human: How are tornadoes formed? ### Assistant: Tornadoes are rotating columns of air that is in contact with the ground. The catalyst that lead to tornadoes are temperature and humidity instability. Warm moist air near the ground, with cooler dry air at higher altitudes combined with wind shear, a change in wind speed and/or direction with height. This unstable airmass promotes the development of strong updrafts, while wind shear will further increase the strength of the updraft, and promotes the rotation from which tornadoes are produced. Tornado intensities are measured using the Enhanced Fujita (EF) scale |
### Human: What is the tiny piece at the end of a shoelace called? ### Assistant: An Aglet. |
### Human: What links Brazil, Uruguay, Mozambique and Angola ### Assistant: Colonies of Portugal |
### Human: Who were the original 5 members of the Grateful Dead? ### Assistant: The original 5 members of the Grateful Dead were Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, and Ron "Pigpen" McKernan |
### Human: Which Dutch actress played Xenia Onatopp in the James Bond movie GoldenEye? ### Assistant: Dutch actress Marijke Janssen played Xenia Onatopp in the James Bond movie GoldenEye. |
### Human: How did Robert Baratheon die? ### Assistant: King Robert I Baratheon was on a boar hunting trip when he was gored by a boar. Lancel Lannister, one of his squires, provided the king with fortified wine, to ensure the king was overly drunk and would make a mistake. Had he not died from the boar, the king would have been deliberately knocked off his horse or shot with an arrow, according to Lord Varys. The king's death was arranged by his wife, Cersei Lannister, so he would not learn the truth about who actually sired his children he shared with Cersei. |
### Human: Increased money supply (i.e. money printing) ### Assistant: Demand-pull inflation.
Cost-push inflation.
Increased money supply (i.e. money printing)
Currency devaluation.
Government policies and regulations. |
### Human: What is "diglossia"? ### Assistant: Diglossia is when one community uses two different languages or dialects depending on the circumstances e.g. for written things and for casual conversation. A weird (not actual schoolbook) case of that is Swiss German. High German is used for written and formal things while Swiss German is used to speak. |
### Human: What is the second oldest ballpark in Major League Baseball? ### Assistant: The second oldest ballpark in Major League Baseball is Wrigley Field in Chicago, IL. It was built in 1914, two years after Fenway Park opened in Boston, MA. |
### Human: What are index funds? ### Assistant: Index funds are investment funds that follow a benchmark index, such as the S&P 500 or the Nasdaq 100. When you put money in an index fund, that cash is then used to invest in all the companies that make up the particular index, which gives you a more diverse portfolio than if you were buying individual stocks. |
### Human: How many campgrounds does Shenandoah National Park have? ### Assistant: Shenandoah National Park has five different campgrounds evenly dispersed throughout the park: Mathews Arm, Big Meadows, Lewis Mountain, Loft Mountain, and Dundo Group Campground. Mathews Arm is located in the northern section of the park. Big Meadows Campground is in the central portion of the park and is the most popular one. Lewis Mountain is similarly in the central part of the park, but is smaller, offering more privacy to people. Loft Mountain is the largest campground and is in the southern part of the park. Dundo Group Campground is also small and to the south, but only has group sites and the camp sits on the Appalachian Trail. The campsites offer different amenities such as food storage lockers and trash/recycling collection. |
### Human: Who was the first women to do the spacewalk? ### Assistant: Svetlana Savitskaya in the year 1984 |
### Human: What is a spiral staircase? ### Assistant: A spiral staircase is a set of stairs that circles around a central pole and allows for a steeper ascent than other stair designs. |
### Human: Which is considered the first human technology? ### Assistant: Fire |
### Human: Why did the Seattle Supersonics leave Seattle? ### Assistant: In 2006 the owner of the team, Howard Schultz, sold the team Clay Bennett. Clay Bennett originally agreed to keep the team in Seattle, however, he then told the city that if a new arena was not built using public funds that he would move the team. Ultimately, public funding for the arena fell through and the team was moved to Oklahoma. The team is now known at the Oklahoma City Thunder. The relocation of the team was very controversial as local news organizations and fans believe that Clay Bennett's intention was to remove the team from Seattle and did not provide reasonable terms for a renovation of the basketball arena. |
### Human: Give me some facts about Ethiopia? ### Assistant: Ethiopia is a federal parliamentary republic with a population of 113,656,596 people, as of 2021 (World factbook). The country is led by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who came to power in 2018. Voting is allowed for citizens over 18 years of age, but it is not mandatory. Despite its leadership in government, Ethiopia faces significant issues with corruption. According to a corruption scale, the country ranks 129th out of 180 countries, with bribery being a common occurrence in government affairs. Agriculture is a major part of Ethiopia's economy, with 38.5 million hectares of land being cultivated in 2020(World factbook). The major crops grown in the country include coffee, pulses, oilseeds, cereals, potatoes, sugarcane, and vegetables. Approximately 80% of Ethiopia's population resides in rural areas due to the need for farming, while the remaining 20% lives in urban areas. |
### Human: Where to visit in Brazil? ### Assistant: It depends what you are looking for. Brazil is known for the amazon forest, carnival and beaches in Rio but there are a lot more to explore.
There are pretty interesting cities, such as São Paulo, Curitiba and Recife. São Paulo has a great mix of culture and gastronomy, the city is vibrant and have bakeries that stay up all night. Curitiba became a leader in urban sustainability and also has a cultural aspect to it.
Recife is a city in the northeastern state of Pernambuco, it has a night life in its old town, Recife antigo and some beaches as well. During the month of February the city has a vibrant carnival celebration, tourists and residents go out to the street to dance and celebrate, where you can see people of all ages.
Besides the cities, Brazil has beautiful warm beaches in its northeastern states. From the Bahia state to Ceára state, there are many paradisiac beaches to visit. Be aware that road tripping in Brazil is not always safe and you need to speak Portuguese since you will find English speakers only in the main hotels and resorts. Stay in the main cities of Salvador, Aracajú, Maceió, Recife, João Pessoa, Natal and Fortaleza to experience the most development and tourist services. |
### Human: How many cats did Freddie Mercury have? ### Assistant: Freddie Mercury had ten cats. |
### Human: Walter Koenig played which part in the Star Trek series ### Assistant: Ensign Chekov |
### Human: What is the largest city in Washington state? ### Assistant: Seattle |
### Human: What is the largest or biggest land animal? ### Assistant: The largest or biggest land animal is the African bush elephant. It can reach weights of up to 10000 kgs (or 22000 lbs). However historically there have been dinosaurs that are greater in weight than elephants. |
### Human: What is the current reigning dynasty of Thailand? ### Assistant: The current reigning dynasty of Thailand is Chakri dynasty and the current King of the dynasty is Maha Vajiralongkorn. |
### Human: What is an actuary? ### Assistant: An actuary is a specialist in the valuation of the financial impact of risk and uncertainty. They apply statistical techniques and expert industry knowledge. Actuaries usually work in the insurance and banking industries. |
### Human: What is the fastest car? ### Assistant: In 2017, the Koenigsegg Agera RS reached a top speed of 447.19 km/h (277.87 mph). |
### Human: When is India's independence day? ### Assistant: India celebrates her independence day on the 15th day of August every year. The prime minister hoists the national flag at red fort and gives a speech to the nation. |
### Human: When did Hungary gain its independence? ### Assistant: Hungary declared independence on October 17, 1918 and officially formed its government on November 1 of that year. |
### Human: Why do people enjoy surfing ### Assistant: Surfing is enjoyable because it connects you with the ocean and can often be seen as therapeutic. Additionally surfing can often be a great form of exercise which helps maintain a healthy lifestyle. Lastly, surfing is done in the ocean and typically near a beach. People enjoy the atmosphere and joy the beach brings. |
### Human: Why do companies play dividends? ### Assistant: Companies will pay dividends out of their after tax earnings. It's generally done to signal to shareholders that the balance sheet is strong and that growth is expected without the need to reinvest all free cashflow back into the business. |
### Human: What is Depreciation ### Assistant: Depreciation is the drop in value of an asset due to wear and tear, age and obsolescence (going out of date) as recorded in an organization's financial records. |
### Human: In a bingo game, which number is represented by the phrase “two little ducks”? ### Assistant: 22 |
### Human: What is Jenkins? ### Assistant: Jenkins is an open source automation server. It helps automate the parts of software development related to building, testing, and deploying, facilitating continuous integration and continuous delivery. |
### Human: What language is HP GL ### Assistant: HP-GL, short for Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language and often written as HPGL, is a printer control language created by Hewlett-Packard (HP). HP-GL was the primary printer control language used by HP plotters. It was introduced with the plotter HP-8972 in 1977 and became a standard for almost all plotters. Hewlett-Packard's printers also usually support HP-GL/2 in addition to PCL. |
### Human: List the ten episode titles from the sixth season of "Game of Thrones" in broadcast order. ### Assistant: The Red Woman, Home, Oathbreaker, Book of the Stranger, The Door, Blood of My Blood, The Broken Man, No One, Battle of the Bastards, The Winds of Winter |
### Human: What is the largest airline in the world ? ### Assistant: The largest airlines in the world can be defined in several ways. As of 2022, Delta Air Lines is the largest by revenue, assets value and market capitalization, China Southern Air Holding by passengers carried, American Airlines Group by revenue passenger mile, fleet size, numbers of employees and destinations served, FedEx Express by freight tonne-kilometers, Ryanair by number of routes, Turkish Airlines by number of countries served. |
### Human: What is guitar amp modeling? ### Assistant: Guitar amp modeling is a digital technology for reproducing the sound and feel of playing guitar through physical amplifiers. This technology may be embodied in a piece of outboard gear, or as a software plugin for a digital audio workstation. In recent years, guitar amp modeling has advanced to the point of being difficult to discern by ear from the sound of the amplifiers being modeled. Some brands associated with advanced guitar amp modeling include Line 6, Fractal Audio, and Neural DSP. |
### Human: Who was Cleopatra's first husband ### Assistant: Ptolemy Dionysus – her brother |
### Human: What is the difference between a bass guitar and a normal guitar?` ### Assistant: A bass guitar typically has four strings which are tuned to G, D, A and E in the standard tuning. A standard guitar, on the other hand, has six strings which are tuned to E, B, G, D, A and E in the standard tuning. |
### Human: How is data engineering different from data science? ### Assistant: Data Engineering occurs before data science in the data lifecycle. Data can be generated from various sources and this raw data may be structured, semi structured or even unstructured. To make sense of this data, data has to be ingested and transformed. This is when data engineering comes into picture. Data engineering includes the process of extracting the raw data, ingesting data into a system like a data lake, transforming the data for business needs and finally loading it into a table. This is commonly known as ELT (Extract-Load-Transform). ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) is also possible where transformation happens before the loading stage.
Data Science and Analytics is the next step in the data lifecycle. Once the data needed for specific business need is available, data scientists use this data to run machine learning models to find the most accurate model. This data is available to the data scientists in the form of tables. Data analysts also use this data to do some exploratory analysis and create dashboards.
In essence, the data lifecycle would look as follows:
Raw data from different sources -> Data Engineering -> Data Science and Analytics |
### Human: What was Freddie Mercury's real name? ### Assistant: Farrokh Bulsara |
### Human: Which of Shakespeare’s plays is the longest? ### Assistant: Hamlet. |
### Human: In 64th Annual Grammy Awards, best album of the year award was given to ### Assistant: Jon Batiste was awarded the best album of the year in 64th Annual Grammy Awards |
### Human: How reliable is public transportation? ### Assistant: Reliability of public transportation varies drastically depending on which city you are in and depends on investment and maintenance of existing infrastructure. For example, the public transportation network in Switzerland spans a wide network that comprises of trains, trams, busses, and ferries, runs timely on a schedule to the minute, and is used as a primary mode of transportation for many residents. In contrast, it can be challenging to get around many cities in the United States without a car. Public transportation ridership often depends on reliability, which in turn often determines the availability of investments in the required infrastructure. This creates an unfortunate cycle making it very difficult for public transportation to become more reliable without external investments where the system is funding itself. |
### Human: Which city are Stroopwafels from? ### Assistant: Stroopwafels are a type of Dutch waffle-like cake made with ground or shredded wheat and a variety of fillings. They are most commonly found in the city of Haarlem, Netherlands. |
### Human: What is System Thinking ### Assistant: Systems thinking is a way of making sense of complexity by looking at it in terms of wholes and relationships rather than splitting it into parts. It is based on the idea that all critical processes in an organization are interrelated and work together to achieve a common goal. |
### Human: What is the difference between a paint and a pinto? ### Assistant: A paint horse is a breed called the "American Paint Horse" with bloodlines from registered Quarter Horses, Thoroughbreds or Arabian horses with bold two-color markings and a pinto is a loose term used to describe any horse with bold white markings on its coat but can be any breed. |
### Human: Why do some people select private schools over public schools? ### Assistant: Some of the typical reasons people select private schools over public schools are
1. They can afford private school and believe they can get marginal advantages
2. Private schools offer a smaller student to teacher ratio
3. Private schools have connections to some of the niche colleges
4. The curriculum is usually ahead of the public school for the same grade. |
### Human: Who are the top 5 non-fiction writers of all time? ### Assistant: 1) Margaret Atwood
2) James Baldwin
3)Mark Bowden
4) Ta-Nehisi Coates
5) Robin Cook |
### Human: What is the difference between a chihuaha and a golden retriever? ### Assistant: Chihuahas are a breed of dog and they are generally smaller in size. They can be long or short haired. Their temperament is that they like to bark a lot and are easily agitated. Regardless, Chihuaha dogs make great companions and lap dogs.
Golden retrievers are a breed of dog and they are generally larger in size. They are very intelligent dogs and can be easily trained. They are used as service dogs to help people, for example they can be a guide dog for the blind. Their temperament is that they are calm and focused. Golden retrievers are also great companion dogs. |
### Human: Jokic or Embiid for the MVP? ### Assistant: I would give the MVP award to Nikola Jokic. |
### Human: Why is the most of the world's land is north of the equator? ### Assistant: It just happened to be the way at the moment. Believe it or not, the earth's continents are slowly moving. Around 300 million years ago, our planet had one big mass of land called Pangaea. It was mainly south of the equator. In another 200 million years, things will look different again. |
### Human: What makes the Expanse series better than other sci-fi? ### Assistant: What really sets The Expanse apart from other popular science fiction is the science. It's common for sci-fi writers to throw the laws of physics out the window or create a fake invention that bends the rules without any scientific basis to make their concept work. The Expanse has a realism that is unparalleled. If you've ever found yourself yelling at your book or TV saying "That's not even close to possible" then this is the sci-fi series for you. |
### Human: How do you cook ribs? ### Assistant: 1. Spread French's mustard all over the ribs
2. Season ribs top and bottom liberally with the rub. Seriously don't be shy.
3. Place ribs on a smoker at 225 for 2-3 hours (oak).
4. In a bowl mix one cup of honey, brown sugar, a table spoon of apple cider vinegar, Mix together and Drizzle in the middle of the foil, place ribs top side down in the foil. Wrap tight.
5. Return to the smoke for another 1.5-2 hours or until tender but not 'falling off the bone'
6. In a sauce pan add a bottle of your favorite BBQ sauce, one cup of apple jelly, one finely shredded apple, and one tsp of rib rub.
7. Pull them out of the foil, season again with rub.
8. Top with BBQ sauce with apple and apple jelly.
9. Put the ribs back on the pit for 30 minutes for the sauce to set-up.
Ingredients:
· Three racks of pork ribs
· Rib rub
· French’s mustard
· Honey
· Brown sugar
· Apple cider vinegar
· KC Masterpiece BBQ sauce
· Apple jelly
· One finely shredded apple |
### Human: What is the largest state by land size in the United States of America? ### Assistant: The largest state by land size in the United States of America is Alaska. |
### Human: What colors are typically associated with Christmas? ### Assistant: Red and Green are associated with Christmas |
### Human: What family do tigers, lions and panthers all belong to? ### Assistant: Tigers, lions and panthers are all a part of the cat family |
### Human: What is an unsecured loan? ### Assistant: Unsecured loans are monetary loans that are not secured against the borrower's assets. |
### Human: What is Python? ### Assistant: Python is a high-level, general-purpose programming language. Its design philosophy emphasizes code readability with the use of significant indentation via the off-side rule.
Python is dynamically typed and garbage-collected. It supports multiple programming paradigms, including structured (particularly procedural), object-oriented and functional programming. It is often described as a "batteries included" language due to its comprehensive standard library. |
### Human: What causes mortgage interest rates to rise in the US? ### Assistant: Mortgage rates are tied to many factors including the inflation, economic growth, and the Federal Reserve's (Fed) monetary policy. For instance, if the Fed increases rates, this usually results in increased mortgate rates since banks need to ensure that the loan can achieve better returns than investing in US bonds. |
### Human: What are the key benefits of Delta Live Tables? ### Assistant: Here are the key benefits of Delta Live Tables:
1. Enable citizen engineers to self serve and innovate rapidly with simple pipeline development and maintenance
2. Trust your data with built-in quality controls and data quality monitoring to ensure accurate and useful BI, Data Science, and ML
3. Scale with automated administration through broader visibility into pipeline operations, automatic error handling, and auto-scaling capabilities
4. Support a wider variety of use cases by unlocking the development of real-time and incremental data pipelines to a wider audience |
### Human: I want to buy a work monitor which is to be used along with the laptop. What features of monitor should be considered? ### Assistant: Based on type of work
For coding or text content creation
- size 24-28 inch monitor would suffice
- resolution 1920 * 1080 or lower
- can be swirled to landscape or portrait mode
- refresh rate of 60-90 hz
For video or game content creation
- size 28 or higher curved monitors
- resolution QHD, UHD, 4K
- refresh rate 120 hz
- preferable having speakers |
### Human: Who prepares the Global Hunger Index? ### Assistant: Global Hunger Index is jointly prepared by Welhunger Life and Concern Worldwide |
### Human: What is the team that Michael Jordan played? ### Assistant: Chicago Bulls |
### Human: How much is in a baker's dozen? ### Assistant: A baker's dozen is not 12, it is 13. There is a story for the origin of this practice that dates back to medieval times and bakers throwing in an extra roll or loaf of bread, to avoid being found guilty of cheating their customers based on prices vs quantity of wheat flour sold. In modern times, the practice is more about generosity of your baker; though you might not find a baker who actually gives you 13 when you pay for a dozen donuts. |
### Human: Why there is no infant rice cereal in the market now? ### Assistant: Because there are more concerns on the arsenic in the rice. And it is a bigger concerns for the babies. FDA says that the rice intake for infants is about three times greater than for adults relative to body weight. So more and more families start to change to other alternatives. infant rice cereal is gone by time. |
### Human: What is the fastest way to travel between the United States and Croatia? ### Assistant: The fastest way to travel would be by airplane, which would be faster than a boat trip |
### Human: What is used to make the dough of boiled Chinese dumplings? ### Assistant: Wheat is used to make the flour of boiled Chinese dumplings. |
### Human: What is the difference between natural and real numbers? ### Assistant: Natural numbers include positive whole numbers. For example, 1 and 2 belong to the natural set of numbers. Real numbers include any numbers between minus infinity and plus infinity. Natural numbers are subset of real numbers. |
### Human: What is counterintelligence? ### Assistant: Counterintelligence is an activity aimed at protecting an agency's intelligence program from an opposition's intelligence service. It includes gathering information and conducting activities to prevent espionage, sabotage, assassinations or other intelligence activities conducted by, for, or on behalf of foreign powers, organizations or persons. |
### Human: How does water feel? ### Assistant: Water is typically a fluid at room temperature, as a fluid it feels wet. As a solid, its ice, which feels hard. As a gas, its vapor, which feels like a cool mist. |
### Human: What country has hosted the Olympic Games the most often? ### Assistant: The United States has hosted the Olympic Games 8 times between summer and winter Games. |
### Human: What is the Von Neumann architecture? ### Assistant: Nearly all modern computers are based on this famous architecture consisting of a central processing unit, a memory for storing instructions and data, and a bus to transmit data between components including input and output devices. |
### Human: What is the difference between tennis and pickleball? ### Assistant: Pickleball is a slower-paced game. The court is smaller than a tennis court so there is less ground to cover. Pickleball paddles are lighter than tennis rackets; even the ball itself is lighter. Pickleball is typically easier on your joints compared to tennis. Some believe pickleball is an easier sport to learn. |
### Human: Why is a higher interest rate on my home worse? ### Assistant: Getting a higher interest rate on a home loan increases the payments on your loan. Over time, a higher interest rate can greatly increase the amount that you pay to your lender. However, a silver lining might be the lower home prices that often accompany higher interest rates. It’s possible that refinancing after interest rates drop might provide an opportunity to pay less on your loan down the road. |
### Human: Did Magic Johnson or Larry Bird win more collegiate and professional basketball championships? ### Assistant: Magic Johnson. Magic Johnson has won 6 total which are the 1979 NCAA Championship (defeated Larry Bird), and NBA Championships in 1980, 1982, 1985, 1987 and 1988. Larry Bird has only won three NBA Championships and zero collegiate championships. |
### Human: What genre did the Chicks (formerly the Dixie Chicks) begin their career in? ### Assistant: The Chicks established themselves in the genre of Country Music |
### Human: Did Sir Winston Churchill win the Nobel Peace Prize? ### Assistant: No, Sir Winston Churchill did not win the Nobel Peace Prize. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize twice, in 1945 and in 1950, and did not win it.
However, he did win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953. |
### Human: Are the Golden State Warriors a good basketball team? ### Assistant: The Golden State Warriors won the most recent NBA championship in 2022. In the last 8 years they reached the NBA finals 6 times, won 4 championships, and set the record for regular seasons wins with 73. Stephen Curry, the Warriors best player, also won the NBA Most Valuable Player award twice during that same span. This success is generally regarded as a dynasty, a term used to describe a dominating team over a long period.
However, this season the Warriors have struggled. Despite winning the most recent NBA championship only 9 months ago, near the end of this regular season they are only a few games above .500. Their current record is 42-38 as of today, which is only the 13th best record in the NBA out of 30 teams.
The reason for the drop is not clear. The Warriors have the same starting lineup as last year with 4 All-Stars and when playing at Home their record is among the best in the league. However, when playing on the road the Warriors have one of the worst records at 9-30. A big factor in their road losses is lack of good defense, as opposing teams score considerably more points against the Warriors than when the Warriors play at home. There seems to be a lack of focus and intensity from the Warriors players on defense in these away games and in the NBA, where the margin between winning and losing is very thin, that has seemed to make the difference. |
### Human: What is the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction? ### Assistant: The Pulitzer in Fiction is awarded each year to the American author who published the best novel written in the prior year. |
### Human: What is Mario Puzo's most famous book? ### Assistant: The Godfather. Originally published in 1969, is a novel about a fictional crime family in New York. |
### Human: What is the capital city of Malaysia? ### Assistant: The capital city of Malaysia is Kuala Lumpur. |
### Human: What are the names of some of the cities in the Boston Metro West area? ### Assistant: Boston Metro West cities include Newton, Natick, Framingham, Wellesley, Dedham, and Needham, among others. |
### Human: How many cents do I have if I have 3 quarters? ### Assistant: If you have 3 quarters, you have 75 cents. |
### Human: Which Game of Thrones episode does Arya go blind? ### Assistant: Arya goes temporarily blind in the last episode of season 5, entitled "Mother's Mercy" |
### Human: What color is the Rainbow? ### Assistant: The rainbow is the VIBGYOR that stands for Violet, Indigo, Blue, green, yellow, Orange and Red. |
### Human: Name the Hindi novel that has become the 1st novel to win the International Booker Prize ### Assistant: Tomb of Sand |
### Human: Where does Nick work on the show the New Girl ### Assistant: at the Bar |
### Human: Who wrote the Great Gatsby? ### Assistant: The Great Gatsby was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald |
### Human: What is a bond in finance? ### Assistant: In finance, a bond is a type of security under which the issuer (debtor) owes the holder (creditor) a debt, and is obliged – depending on the terms – to provide cash flow to the creditor (e.g. repay the principal (i.e. amount borrowed) of the bond at the maturity date as well as interest (called the coupon) over a specified amount of time).The timing and the amount of cash flow provided varies, depending on the economic value that is emphasized upon, thus giving rise to different types of bonds. The interest is usually payable at fixed intervals: semiannual, annual, and less often at other periods. Thus, a bond is a form of loan or IOU. Bonds provide the borrower with external funds to finance long-term investments or, in the case of government bonds, to finance current expenditure.
Bonds and stocks are both securities, but the major difference between the two is that (capital) stockholders have an equity stake in a company (i.e. they are owners), whereas bondholders have a creditor stake in a company (i.e. they are lenders). As creditors, bondholders have priority over stockholders. This means they will be repaid in advance of stockholders, but will rank behind secured creditors, in the event of bankruptcy. Another difference is that bonds usually have a defined term, or maturity, after which the bond is redeemed, whereas stocks typically remain outstanding indefinitely. An exception is an irredeemable bond, which is a perpetuity, that is, a bond with no maturity. Certificates of deposit (CDs) or short-term commercial paper are classified as money market instruments and not bonds: the main difference is the length of the term of the instrument.
The most common forms include municipal, corporate, and government bonds. Very often the bond is negotiable, that is, the ownership of the instrument can be transferred in the secondary market. This means that once the transfer agents at the bank medallion-stamp the bond, it is highly liquid on the secondary market. The price of a bond in the secondary market may differ substantially from the principal due to various factors in bond valuation. |
### Human: Why did Kim Kardashian and Ye divorce? ### Assistant: Kim Kardashian and Ye experienced marital stress from many causes. The initial commonly cited reason by social outlets for their separation and later divorce was tensions that arose from Ye's erratic behavior on social media and in public spheres. |
### Human: What is the American show The Office based on? ### Assistant: The Office is based on the original version of the Office, which was produced in England and is known as the British Office |
### Human: Who is Alexander McGuire? ### Assistant: Alexander McGuire (born 5 October 1932) is a New Zealand cricketer. He played in four first-class matches for Central Districts in 1957/58. |
### Human: What are the disadvantages of Linux? ### Assistant: The disadvantages of Linux include limited hardware support, a steep learning curve, lack of commercial support, and compatibility issues. |
### Human: How can I better learn a new language? ### Assistant: Learning a language by using it is the most efficient way. Having a partner to practice not only help you work on your pronunciation and accent, it also incentivize you to keep practicing (similar to how having a gym buddy makes you go to the gym more often).
Language are also meant to communicate. Allowing yourself for mistakes, whether it is an accent, bad conjugation would allow you to keep practicing and would result having a broader set of words and sentences you can use. From there correcting mistakes becomes easier as you naturally find relations between conjugation, forms etc. |
### Human: Eminem's 8 Mile is named after a road in which city? ### Assistant: Detroit. |