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Where is Stargate Command located in the Stargate universe.
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Stargate Command (abbreviated to SGC) is a top-secret military organization founded and led by the United States Air Force in conjunction with the International Oversight Advisory, tasked with operating the Stargate device and all matters pertaining to things offworld, such as threats to Earth or missions to procure new technology from extraterrestrial civilizations. It is based inside the Cheyenne Mountain Complex in Colorado, code named "Area 52". (SG1: "Politics")
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The Stargate Command facility is located on planet Earth, in Colorado, United States, in the Cheyenne Mountain complex
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### Question: Where is Stargate Command located in the Stargate universe.### Answer: The Stargate Command facility is located on planet Earth, in Colorado, United States, in the Cheyenne Mountain complex
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What are common metrics used to measure the market value of a company?
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Common metrics used to measure the market value of a company are:
1. Revenue
2. Free cash flow
3. Net income
4. Revenue growth rate
5. Free cash flow growth rate
6. Operating margin
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### Question: What are common metrics used to measure the market value of a company?### Answer: Common metrics used to measure the market value of a company are:
1. Revenue
2. Free cash flow
3. Net income
4. Revenue growth rate
5. Free cash flow growth rate
6. Operating margin
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What are the words of House Crakehall?
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"None So Fierce"
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### Question: What are the words of House Crakehall?### Answer: "None So Fierce"
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Does multitasking make someone more productive at work?
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It is a commonly held belief that multitasking is a desirable attribute for an employee to possess. This is based on the idea that multitasking results in a higher volume of work product. However, the contrary view is that multitasking diminishes the quality of work. In other words, multitasking increases productivity if the goal is simply to produce more work product; but at the same time, it decreases the quality of each individual outcome.
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### Question: Does multitasking make someone more productive at work?### Answer: It is a commonly held belief that multitasking is a desirable attribute for an employee to possess. This is based on the idea that multitasking results in a higher volume of work product. However, the contrary view is that multitasking diminishes the quality of work. In other words, multitasking increases productivity if the goal is simply to produce more work product; but at the same time, it decreases the quality of each individual outcome.
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Why is the sky blue?
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Blue light is scattered in all directions by the tiny molecules of air in Earth's atmosphere. Blue is scattered more than other colors because it travels as shorter, smaller waves. This is why we see a blue sky most of the time.
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### Question: Why is the sky blue?### Answer: Blue light is scattered in all directions by the tiny molecules of air in Earth's atmosphere. Blue is scattered more than other colors because it travels as shorter, smaller waves. This is why we see a blue sky most of the time.
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Why do people like macaroni and cheese and how is it made?
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Macaroni and cheese is is a popular dish across the world that is widely regarded for its flavor and textural components. Macaroni and cheese is made with cooked pasta, usually elbow macaroni, and a cheese sauce. The cheese sauce is usually made by cooking a roux, which is a mixture of butter and flour, and then adding milk. Once thickened, cheese is added to the sauce. Some macaroni and cheese is stove top, meaning that it is not baked after the cheese sauce is mixed with the macaroni. However, the best dish is sprinkled with bread crumbs and baked in the oven until the top is crispy.
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### Question: Why do people like macaroni and cheese and how is it made?### Answer: Macaroni and cheese is is a popular dish across the world that is widely regarded for its flavor and textural components. Macaroni and cheese is made with cooked pasta, usually elbow macaroni, and a cheese sauce. The cheese sauce is usually made by cooking a roux, which is a mixture of butter and flour, and then adding milk. Once thickened, cheese is added to the sauce. Some macaroni and cheese is stove top, meaning that it is not baked after the cheese sauce is mixed with the macaroni. However, the best dish is sprinkled with bread crumbs and baked in the oven until the top is crispy.
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What kind of u-boat was the SM U-30
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SM U-30[Note 1] was one of 329 U-boat submarines serving in the Imperial German Navy in World War I. She engaged in commerce warfare as part of the First Battle of the Atlantic. U-30 is significant for the torpedoing of the US tanker Gulflight on 1 May 1915 20 nautical miles (37 km; 23 mi) west of Scilly.
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SM U-30 was one of 329 U-boat submarines serving in the Imperial German Navy in World War I. She engaged in commerce warfare as part of the First Battle of the Atlantic. U-30 is significant for the torpedoing of the US tanker Gulflight on 1 May 1915 20 nautical miles (37 km; 23 mi) west of Scilly.
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### Question: What kind of u-boat was the SM U-30### Answer: SM U-30 was one of 329 U-boat submarines serving in the Imperial German Navy in World War I. She engaged in commerce warfare as part of the First Battle of the Atlantic. U-30 is significant for the torpedoing of the US tanker Gulflight on 1 May 1915 20 nautical miles (37 km; 23 mi) west of Scilly.
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Given this reference test, what is the daily recommended amount of magnesium for men in the UK?
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In the UK, the recommended daily values for magnesium are 300 mg for men and 270 mg for women. In the U.S. the Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs) are 400 mg for men ages 19–30 and 420 mg for older; for women 310 mg for ages 19–30 and 320 mg for older.
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The daily recommended amount of magnesium for men in the UK is 300 mg.
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### Question: Given this reference test, what is the daily recommended amount of magnesium for men in the UK?### Answer: The daily recommended amount of magnesium for men in the UK is 300 mg.
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Where is the Kilo railway station
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Kilo is a station on the VR commuter rail network on the Rantarata line located in Kilo, a district of the city of Espoo in Finland. It is situated between Leppävaara railway station and Kera railway station, approximately 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) northwest/west of Helsinki Central railway station.
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Kilo is a station on the VR commuter rail network on the Rantarata line located in Kilo, a district of the city of Espoo in Finland. It is situated between Leppavaara railway station and Kera railway station, approximately 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) northwest/west of Helsinki Central railway station.
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### Question: Where is the Kilo railway station### Answer: Kilo is a station on the VR commuter rail network on the Rantarata line located in Kilo, a district of the city of Espoo in Finland. It is situated between Leppavaara railway station and Kera railway station, approximately 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) northwest/west of Helsinki Central railway station.
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What are the major innovations and scientific discoveries from UC Berkeley?
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A number of significant inventions and discoveries have been made by Berkeley faculty members and researchers:
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Atomic bomb – Physics professor J. Robert Oppenheimer was wartime director of Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Manhattan Project.
Carbon 14 and photosynthesis – Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben first discovered carbon 14 in 1940, and Nobel laureate Melvin Calvin and his colleagues used carbon 14 as a molecular tracer to reveal the carbon assimilation path in photosynthesis, known as Calvin cycle.
Carcinogens – Identified chemicals that damage DNA. The Ames test was described in a series of papers in 1973 by Bruce Ames and his group at the university.
Chemical elements – 16 elements have been discovered at Berkeley (technetium, astatine, neptunium, plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium, californium, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, nobelium, lawrencium, rutherfordium, dubnium, and seaborgium).
Covalent bond – Gilbert N. Lewis in 1916 described the sharing of electron pairs between atoms, and invented the Lewis notation to describe the mechanisms.
CRISPR gene editing – Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna discovers a precise and inexpensive way for manipulating DNA in human cells.
Cyclotron – Ernest O. Lawrence created a particle accelerator in 1934, and was awarded the Nobel Physics Prize in 1939.
Dark energy – Saul Perlmutter and many others in the Supernova Cosmology Project discover the universe is expanding because of dark energy 1998.
Flu vaccine – Wendell M. Stanley and colleagues discovered the vaccine in the 1940s.
Hydrogen bomb – Edward Teller, the father of hydrogen bomb, was a professor at Berkeley and a researcher at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Immunotherapy of cancer – James P. Allison discovers and develops monoclonal antibody therapy that uses the immune system to combat cancer 1992–1995.
Molecular clock – Allan Wilson discovery in 1967.
Neuroplasticity – Marian Diamond discovers structural, biochemical, and synaptic changes in brain caused by environmental enrichment 1964
Oncogene – Peter Duesberg discovers first cancer causing gene in a virus 1970s.
Telomerase – Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol Greider, and Jack Szostak discover enzyme that promotes cell division and growth 1985.
Vitamin E – Gladys Anderson Emerson isolates Vitamin E in a pure form in 1952.
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Atomic bomb by J. Robert Oppenheimer, carbon 14 and its photosynthesis, covalent bond, cyclotron, and etc.
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### Question: What are the major innovations and scientific discoveries from UC Berkeley?### Answer: Atomic bomb by J. Robert Oppenheimer, carbon 14 and its photosynthesis, covalent bond, cyclotron, and etc.
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What’s the best way to cook scrambled eggs?
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Heat a pan to medium heat and melt some butter. Crack eggs into the pan and break the yolk so that the mixture in the pan has a nice variation. Continue slowly stirring the eggs. Every 30 seconds, remove the pan from the heat. Then return to the heat for 30 seconds. Continue this process and continue stirring until the eggs reach your preferred consistency.
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### Question: What’s the best way to cook scrambled eggs?### Answer: Heat a pan to medium heat and melt some butter. Crack eggs into the pan and break the yolk so that the mixture in the pan has a nice variation. Continue slowly stirring the eggs. Every 30 seconds, remove the pan from the heat. Then return to the heat for 30 seconds. Continue this process and continue stirring until the eggs reach your preferred consistency.
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How did Jim Henson die?
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The famous puppeteer succumbed to toxic shock syndrome, resulting from abscesses in his lungs.
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### Question: How did Jim Henson die?### Answer: The famous puppeteer succumbed to toxic shock syndrome, resulting from abscesses in his lungs.
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Which countries are part of the five eyes alliance and what is its purpose?
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The Five Eyes is an intelligence alliance between the countries of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom and the United States.The goal is to share intelligence between one another in one of the worlds most unilateral agreement
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### Question: Which countries are part of the five eyes alliance and what is its purpose?### Answer: The Five Eyes is an intelligence alliance between the countries of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom and the United States.The goal is to share intelligence between one another in one of the worlds most unilateral agreement
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Who invented the radio?
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The invention of radio communication was preceded by many decades of establishing theoretical underpinnings, discovery and experimental investigation of radio waves, and engineering and technical developments related to their transmission and detection. These developments allowed Guglielmo Marconi to turn radio waves into a wireless communication system.
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The radio was invented by Guglielmo Marconi, which allowed the harnessing of radio waves into a wireless communication system. This invention did not happen in a vacuum. It was enabled by investigating radio waves and understanding how to detect and transmit them.
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### Question: Who invented the radio?### Answer: The radio was invented by Guglielmo Marconi, which allowed the harnessing of radio waves into a wireless communication system. This invention did not happen in a vacuum. It was enabled by investigating radio waves and understanding how to detect and transmit them.
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Where was the heaviest A single filmed?
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"Nothing" is the first single by English rock band A released from their album Hi-Fi Serious. It reached number nine in the UK Singles Chart; to date, A's highest charting single. During the promotion of the single, the band appeared on Top of The Pops and the Pepsi Chart Show.
The promotional video for Nothing was filmed in Cape Town, South Africa, mostly around the Artscape Theatre Centre formerly known as the Nico Malan theatre complex, and features extras dressed in the same clothes as each band member - complete with band member masks - to create the illusion that there are hundreds of duplicates of the band.
"Nothing" is arguably the heaviest A single, marking something of a departure from the band's usual melodic pop punk to nu metal. It is track 1 on the album Hi-Fi Serious. A live version appears on the live album, Rockin' Like Dokken.
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A's first hit single Nothing was filmed in Cape Town, South Africa.
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### Question: Where was the heaviest A single filmed?### Answer: A's first hit single Nothing was filmed in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Why does treasury bond price drop when bond yield increases?
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First, let's see the definition of a bond's price and yield. A bond's price is what investors are willing to pay for an existing bond. A bond's yield is the return to an investor from the bond's interest, or coupon, payments. The typical treasury bond has a fixed yield for X years (X = 5, 10, etc) from the time it is purchased. When we say bond yield increases, it is referring to the newly issued bond will have a higher yield than previously issued bond. Because those new bonds provide higher yield, the existing bonds will need to drop its price otherwise people won't buy them, they would just buy the newly issued bonds.
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### Question: Why does treasury bond price drop when bond yield increases?### Answer: First, let's see the definition of a bond's price and yield. A bond's price is what investors are willing to pay for an existing bond. A bond's yield is the return to an investor from the bond's interest, or coupon, payments. The typical treasury bond has a fixed yield for X years (X = 5, 10, etc) from the time it is purchased. When we say bond yield increases, it is referring to the newly issued bond will have a higher yield than previously issued bond. Because those new bonds provide higher yield, the existing bonds will need to drop its price otherwise people won't buy them, they would just buy the newly issued bonds.
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What is a noun?
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A noun is a word that is used to identify a person, place, or thing.
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### Question: What is a noun?### Answer: A noun is a word that is used to identify a person, place, or thing.
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Should I buy a gravel bike or a down country mountain bike?
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Although there is reasonable overlap in what you can use gravel and downcountry bikes for, the answer her largely depends on what you plan to do the most of and if trail riding will be important for you. Gravel bikes are great for covering offroad miles more efficiently and long days in the saddle both on road or offroad. However, the lack of any meaningful suspension means that or but a small amount of time off paths and more established trails will be hard work. Downcountry bikes will enable you to go on a wider range of terrain, inlcuding the ability to do trail riding (be very careful before trying to navigate downhill trails on a gravel bike!). However, downcountry bikes are usually heavier but the full suspension and geometry makes them less efficient compared to a gravel bike.
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### Question: Should I buy a gravel bike or a down country mountain bike?### Answer: Although there is reasonable overlap in what you can use gravel and downcountry bikes for, the answer her largely depends on what you plan to do the most of and if trail riding will be important for you. Gravel bikes are great for covering offroad miles more efficiently and long days in the saddle both on road or offroad. However, the lack of any meaningful suspension means that or but a small amount of time off paths and more established trails will be hard work. Downcountry bikes will enable you to go on a wider range of terrain, inlcuding the ability to do trail riding (be very careful before trying to navigate downhill trails on a gravel bike!). However, downcountry bikes are usually heavier but the full suspension and geometry makes them less efficient compared to a gravel bike.
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Given a reference text about a singer, tell me when they debuted, what their first release was, and what their most popular song is.
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Lee Ji-eun (Korean: 이지은; born May 16, 1993), also known by her stage name IU (Korean: 아이유), is a South Korean singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. She signed with LOEN Entertainment (now Kakao Entertainment) in 2007 as a trainee and debuted as a singer at the age of fifteen with her first extended play (EP) Lost and Found (2008). Although her follow-up albums, Growing Up and IU...IM, brought mainstream success, it was only after the release of "Good Day" (Korean: 좋은 날), the lead single from her 2010 album Real, that she achieved national stardom. "Good Day" went on to spend five consecutive weeks at the top of South Korea's Gaon Digital Chart, and in 2019, it was ranked number one on Billboard's "100 Greatest K-Pop Songs of the 2010s" list.
Lost and Found is the debut extended play (EP) by South Korean singer-songwriter IU. It was released by LOEN Entertainment on September 23, 2008. IU collaborated with lyricist and producer Choi Gap-won, who had previously produced songs including "Amnesia" by Gummy, "Incurable Disease" by Wheesung, and "Toc Toc Toc" by Lee Hyori. Lee Jong-hoon of Soul-Shop and the singer Mario additionally worked on the title song, "Lost Child".
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The singer Lee Ji-eun, or better known as IU, debuted on September 23, 2008 with her first extended play "Lost and Found". Her most popular song is "Good Day" from her 2010 album "Real" which was ranked number one on Billboard's "100 Greatest K-Pop Songs of the 2010s" list.
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### Question: Given a reference text about a singer, tell me when they debuted, what their first release was, and what their most popular song is.### Answer: The singer Lee Ji-eun, or better known as IU, debuted on September 23, 2008 with her first extended play "Lost and Found". Her most popular song is "Good Day" from her 2010 album "Real" which was ranked number one on Billboard's "100 Greatest K-Pop Songs of the 2010s" list.
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why is context switching bad for computer performance?
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context switching, which occurs when a process is paused by the cpu and another process starts running can affect performance of a computer systems for a couple of reasons. The act of switching the context is not in itself very time consuming. The real performance hit comes from the fact that different processes have different virtual memory address spaces so all the caches in the system need to be invalidated and flushed. Since there is such a huge difference in how fast a cpu can run compared to how fast instructions and data can be retrieved from main memory, these things are cached close to the cpu in onboard caches. Even a pointer to a mapping of virtual addresses to physical addresses are cached so that memory access is faster. When a new process gets loaded by the cpu with a different address space and mapping of virtual to physical addresses, all of the data in the caches is invalid and needs to be flushed. This leaves the cpu with empty caches that have to be rebuilt from scratch for the new process, meaning there will be a big slowdown in retrieving instructions and data since these will now be coming from main memory, which is much slower than the cpu's cache.
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### Question: why is context switching bad for computer performance?### Answer: context switching, which occurs when a process is paused by the cpu and another process starts running can affect performance of a computer systems for a couple of reasons. The act of switching the context is not in itself very time consuming. The real performance hit comes from the fact that different processes have different virtual memory address spaces so all the caches in the system need to be invalidated and flushed. Since there is such a huge difference in how fast a cpu can run compared to how fast instructions and data can be retrieved from main memory, these things are cached close to the cpu in onboard caches. Even a pointer to a mapping of virtual addresses to physical addresses are cached so that memory access is faster. When a new process gets loaded by the cpu with a different address space and mapping of virtual to physical addresses, all of the data in the caches is invalid and needs to be flushed. This leaves the cpu with empty caches that have to be rebuilt from scratch for the new process, meaning there will be a big slowdown in retrieving instructions and data since these will now be coming from main memory, which is much slower than the cpu's cache.
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What is industrial espionage?
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Industrial espionage, economic espionage, corporate spying, or corporate espionage is a form of espionage conducted for commercial purposes instead of purely national security.
While political espionage is conducted or orchestrated by governments and is international in scope, industrial or corporate espionage is more often national and occurs between companies or corporations.
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### Question: What is industrial espionage?### Answer: Industrial espionage, economic espionage, corporate spying, or corporate espionage is a form of espionage conducted for commercial purposes instead of purely national security.
While political espionage is conducted or orchestrated by governments and is international in scope, industrial or corporate espionage is more often national and occurs between companies or corporations.
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Is a vitamin d supplement good for you?
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When taken on a regular basis Vitamin D helps support immune health and cellular activity. It has also been show to support cardiovascular function is some people and can reduce your risk for multiple sclerosis. You can also get Vitamin D by spending plenty of time in sun. You can absorb Vitamin D from a healthy dose of sunshine through your skin too.
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### Question: Is a vitamin d supplement good for you?### Answer: When taken on a regular basis Vitamin D helps support immune health and cellular activity. It has also been show to support cardiovascular function is some people and can reduce your risk for multiple sclerosis. You can also get Vitamin D by spending plenty of time in sun. You can absorb Vitamin D from a healthy dose of sunshine through your skin too.
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Given this paragraph on French Revolution, what were the main causes
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The French Revolution (French: Révolution française [ʁevɔlysjɔ̃ fʁɑ̃sɛːz]) was a period of radical political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the formation of the French Consulate in November 1799. Many of its ideas are considered fundamental principles of liberal democracy, while the values and institutions it created remain central to French political discourse.
Its causes are generally agreed to be a combination of social, political and economic factors, which the Ancien Régime proved unable to manage. In May 1789, widespread social distress led to the convocation of the Estates General, which was converted into a National Assembly in June. Continuing unrest culminated in the Storming of the Bastille on 14 July, which led to a series of radical measures by the Assembly, including the abolition of feudalism, the imposition of state control over the Catholic Church in France, and extension of the right to vote.
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The causes were multiple, including social, politic, and economic factors.
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### Question: Given this paragraph on French Revolution, what were the main causes### Answer: The causes were multiple, including social, politic, and economic factors.
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What is data denormalization in data warehouse?
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Denormalize the data, which means adding redundant columns to some dimension tables to make querying and working with the data faster and easier. The purpose is to trade some redundancy (duplication of data) in the data model for increased query speed, by avoiding computationally expensive join operations.
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### Question: What is data denormalization in data warehouse?### Answer: Denormalize the data, which means adding redundant columns to some dimension tables to make querying and working with the data faster and easier. The purpose is to trade some redundancy (duplication of data) in the data model for increased query speed, by avoiding computationally expensive join operations.
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What does the "E" stand for in Chuck E. Cheese?
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The "E" stands for "Entertainment"
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### Question: What does the "E" stand for in Chuck E. Cheese?### Answer: The "E" stands for "Entertainment"
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A farmer is on his way to market. He's going to sell a wolf, a goat, and a cabbage. On the way, he comes to a river crossing. The river is too wide to ford, so he has to take a tiny boat across. The boat is so small that he can take at most one of the three items with him in the boat at a time. Left alone, the wolf would devour the goat, and the goat would devour the cabbage. How can the farmer safely transport all three items across the river?
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The wolf and the cabbage can be left together with no risk to either. So the farmer first takes the goat across. He returns to the near side, retrieves the cabbage, then takes it across to the far side. Then he returns to the near side with the goat. At the near side, he leaves the goat and takes the wolf to the far side, leaving the wolf with the cabbage. Finally, he returns to the near side to take the goat across for a second time. Problem solved!
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### Question: A farmer is on his way to market. He's going to sell a wolf, a goat, and a cabbage. On the way, he comes to a river crossing. The river is too wide to ford, so he has to take a tiny boat across. The boat is so small that he can take at most one of the three items with him in the boat at a time. Left alone, the wolf would devour the goat, and the goat would devour the cabbage. How can the farmer safely transport all three items across the river?### Answer: The wolf and the cabbage can be left together with no risk to either. So the farmer first takes the goat across. He returns to the near side, retrieves the cabbage, then takes it across to the far side. Then he returns to the near side with the goat. At the near side, he leaves the goat and takes the wolf to the far side, leaving the wolf with the cabbage. Finally, he returns to the near side to take the goat across for a second time. Problem solved!
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What type of babies did Regalado say Jiankui was making?
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On 25 November 2018, Regalado posted on MIT Technology Review website that He Jiankui was making CRIPSR babies. As it was publicised, He was prompted to announce his experiment and posted the news of the birth of twins, nicknamed Lulu and Nana, on YouTube in five videos the same day. He formally presented the experiment at the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing organized at the University of Hong Kong on 28 November 2018. He explained that the experiment was to make the babies resistant to HIV infection as they were (as embryos) obtained from an HIV-positive father. He specifically used a mutant gene named CCR5-Δ32 that is known to confer innate resistance to HIV. The twins were born in secrecy in October 2018, and a third baby (revealed in 2022 as Amy) was then almost born, as He reported.
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Regalado said that Jiankui was making CRIPSR babies.
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Given a reference text about Larissa Ilinichna Volpert, tell me what game she played, when she was champion, and what titles she earned.
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Larissa Ilinichna Volpert (Russian: Лариса Ильинична Вольперт; 30 March 1926 – 1 October 2017) was a Soviet chess Woman Grandmaster and Russian and Estonian philologist. She was a three time Soviet women's chess champion (1954, 1958, and 1959).
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Born in Leningrad, she learned chess from her older brother and received chess instruction at the Leningrad Pioneers Palace. In 1947, she tied for first at the Leningrad Women's Championship. She played her first USSR Women's Championship in 1949 and finished equal fifth. In 1954, she won her first USSR Women's Championship. She scored 2–0 against Nina Hrušková-Bělská in the 1954 USSR v. Czechoslovakia match. In 1958 she shared the USSR Women's Championship title, and in 1959 she won for the third time, her second outright victory.
Volpert earned the Woman International Master title in 1954 and the Woman Grandmaster title in 1978. She had a degree in philology from Leningrad University and since 1977 taught Russian philology at the University of Tartu, Estonia. Her major works are about Pushkin's and Lermontov's poetry, especially in their connections to French literature. She died at the age of 91 on 1 October 2017.[3
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Larissa Ilinichna Volpert played chess and was the Soviet women's chess champion in 1954, 1958 and 1959. She earned the titles of Woman International Master and Woman Grandmaster for her accomplishments in the game of chess.
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Name some famous 20th century Russian composers.
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Sergei Rachmaninoff, Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, Igor Stravinsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
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### Question: Name some famous 20th century Russian composers.### Answer: Sergei Rachmaninoff, Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, Igor Stravinsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
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What countries are regarded as Nordic?
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Nordic countries can be found in Northern Europe. It includes Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland.
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### Question: What countries are regarded as Nordic?### Answer: Nordic countries can be found in Northern Europe. It includes Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland.
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Why to people lift their trucks?
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When people talk about "lifting" their trucks, they are referring to increasing the height and ground clearance through modification to the suspension of the vehicle. Most often this is in reference to pick-up trucks, as those vehicles come from the manufacturer with the front of the vehicle at a lower height than the rear. Know as a "rake", this is intended to allow the vehicle to ride at a level height even when carrying significant weight in the truck bed or towing heavy trailers. There are various methods for lifting a vehicle that range from inexpensive spacers to elevate factory springs to more comprehensive systems replacing multiple suspension elements with new, purpose-built components. People often prefer to lift their truck for the aesthetic appeal as well as improved ground clearance and performance when driving off-road.
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### Question: Why to people lift their trucks?### Answer: When people talk about "lifting" their trucks, they are referring to increasing the height and ground clearance through modification to the suspension of the vehicle. Most often this is in reference to pick-up trucks, as those vehicles come from the manufacturer with the front of the vehicle at a lower height than the rear. Know as a "rake", this is intended to allow the vehicle to ride at a level height even when carrying significant weight in the truck bed or towing heavy trailers. There are various methods for lifting a vehicle that range from inexpensive spacers to elevate factory springs to more comprehensive systems replacing multiple suspension elements with new, purpose-built components. People often prefer to lift their truck for the aesthetic appeal as well as improved ground clearance and performance when driving off-road.
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Should a human be happy all the time?
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Answer 1: Happiness is not only subjective but also temporal - what brought you joy 2 years ago might be boring/unpleasant now. So, instead of optimizing for happiness at a given time, it might actually be better to realize what makes us feel down or not content and avoid them. By avoiding such circumstances/conditions, we can be content and maybe that's what need in life: not strive to be happy all the time but avoid what we truly don't like so that happiness takes care of its own.
Answer 2: Yes! Life is too short to get caught in dull moments so a human needs to optimize for maximum happiness. The definition of happiness differs and that's ok; we all live once and we should spend our time looking for new things that make us happier.
Answer 3: No. Most meaningful lessons in life are learned in situations when we're not particularly happy: Loss of a close person, financial break downs, unexpected health conditions. Getting through these hard times is actually makes a person stronger and more prepared for other calamities in life. We should not strive to be happy "all the time" - instead we should take things as they come. In life, there is a need for moments of discontent as well as a need for moments of joy.
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### Question: Should a human be happy all the time?### Answer: Answer 1: Happiness is not only subjective but also temporal - what brought you joy 2 years ago might be boring/unpleasant now. So, instead of optimizing for happiness at a given time, it might actually be better to realize what makes us feel down or not content and avoid them. By avoiding such circumstances/conditions, we can be content and maybe that's what need in life: not strive to be happy all the time but avoid what we truly don't like so that happiness takes care of its own.
Answer 2: Yes! Life is too short to get caught in dull moments so a human needs to optimize for maximum happiness. The definition of happiness differs and that's ok; we all live once and we should spend our time looking for new things that make us happier.
Answer 3: No. Most meaningful lessons in life are learned in situations when we're not particularly happy: Loss of a close person, financial break downs, unexpected health conditions. Getting through these hard times is actually makes a person stronger and more prepared for other calamities in life. We should not strive to be happy "all the time" - instead we should take things as they come. In life, there is a need for moments of discontent as well as a need for moments of joy.
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Why do people shake hands?
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In many cultures shaking hands is used as a form of greeting as well as a sign to ratify when an agreement was reached. It's believed people started shaking hands as a way to demonstrate they don't hold weapons in their right hand and that they mean well. Traditionally handshake is performed with right hands, sometimes right hand is supported by the left hand to convey extra respect.
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### Question: Why do people shake hands?### Answer: In many cultures shaking hands is used as a form of greeting as well as a sign to ratify when an agreement was reached. It's believed people started shaking hands as a way to demonstrate they don't hold weapons in their right hand and that they mean well. Traditionally handshake is performed with right hands, sometimes right hand is supported by the left hand to convey extra respect.
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Why is the Chernobyl disaster considered to be the world's worst-ever civil nuclear incident when only an excess of 15 childhood thyroid cancer deaths were documented as of 2011?
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The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the No. 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union. Called the world's worst-ever civil nuclear incident, it is one of only two nuclear energy accidents rated at seven—the maximum severity—on the International Nuclear Event Scale, the other being the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan. The initial emergency response, together with later decontamination of the environment, involved more than 500,000 personnel and cost an estimated 18 billion roubles—roughly US$68 billion in 2019, adjusted for inflation. Chernobyl's health effects to the general population are uncertain. An excess of 15 childhood thyroid cancer deaths were documented as of 2011. A United Nations committee found that to date fewer than 100 deaths have resulted from the fallout. Determining the total eventual number of exposure related deaths is uncertain based on the linear no-threshold model, a contested statistical model. Model predictions of the eventual total death toll in the coming decades vary. The most widely cited studies by the World Health Organization predict an eventual 9,000 cancer related fatalities in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia.
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The Chernobyl disaster was called the world's worst-ever civil nuclear incident because it is one of only two nuclear energy accidents rated at seven—the maximum severity—on the International Nuclear Event Scale. The initial emergency response, together with later decontamination of the environment, involved more than 500,000 personnel and cost an estimated 18 billion roubles—roughly US$68 billion in 2019, adjusted for inflation. Even though Chernobyl's health effects to the general population are uncertain, the World Health Organization predict an eventual 9,000 cancer related fatalities in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia.
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### Question: Why is the Chernobyl disaster considered to be the world's worst-ever civil nuclear incident when only an excess of 15 childhood thyroid cancer deaths were documented as of 2011?### Answer: The Chernobyl disaster was called the world's worst-ever civil nuclear incident because it is one of only two nuclear energy accidents rated at seven—the maximum severity—on the International Nuclear Event Scale. The initial emergency response, together with later decontamination of the environment, involved more than 500,000 personnel and cost an estimated 18 billion roubles—roughly US$68 billion in 2019, adjusted for inflation. Even though Chernobyl's health effects to the general population are uncertain, the World Health Organization predict an eventual 9,000 cancer related fatalities in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia.
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What are the biggest marathons?
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There are hundreds of marathons around the globe every year. Only 6 marathons are designated as the major marathons. Those include the Tokyo Marathon, Boston Marathon, London Marathon, Berlin Marathon, Chicago Marathon and New York City Marathon.
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### Question: What are the biggest marathons?### Answer: There are hundreds of marathons around the globe every year. Only 6 marathons are designated as the major marathons. Those include the Tokyo Marathon, Boston Marathon, London Marathon, Berlin Marathon, Chicago Marathon and New York City Marathon.
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Given this text of Mao Zedong, tell me how many people were killed in Mao's era through starvation, persecution, prison labour, and mass executions?
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Mao Zedong (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC), which he led as the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party from the establishment of the PRC in 1949 until his death in 1976. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist, his theories, military strategies, and political policies are collectively known as Maoism.
Mao was the son of a prosperous peasant in Shaoshan, Hunan. He supported Chinese nationalism and had an anti-imperialist outlook early in his life, and was particularly influenced by the events of the Xinhai Revolution of 1911 and May Fourth Movement of 1919. He later adopted Marxism–Leninism while working at Peking University as a librarian and became a founding member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), leading the Autumn Harvest Uprising in 1927. During the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang (KMT) and the CCP, Mao helped to found the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, led the Jiangxi Soviet's radical land reform policies, and ultimately became head of the CCP during the Long March. Although the CCP temporarily allied with the KMT under the Second United Front during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945), China's civil war resumed after Japan's surrender, and Mao's forces defeated the Nationalist government, which withdrew to Taiwan in 1949.
On 1 October 1949, Mao proclaimed the foundation of the PRC, a Marxist–Leninist single-party state controlled by the CCP. In the following years he solidified his control through the Chinese Land Reform against landlords, the Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries, the "Three-anti and Five-anti Campaigns", and through a truce in the Korean War, which altogether resulted in the deaths of several million Chinese. From 1953 to 1958, Mao played an important role in enforcing command economy in China, constructing the first Constitution of the PRC, launching the industrialisation program, and initiating military projects such as the "Two Bombs, One Satellite" project and Project 523. His foreign policies during this time were dominated by the Sino-Soviet split which drove a wedge between China and the Soviet Union. In 1955, Mao launched the Sufan movement, and in 1957 he launched the Anti-Rightist Campaign, in which at least 550,000 people, mostly intellectuals and dissidents, were persecuted. In 1958, he launched the Great Leap Forward that aimed to rapidly transform China's economy from agrarian to industrial, which led to the deadliest famine in history and the deaths of 15–55 million people between 1958 and 1962. In 1963, Mao launched the Socialist Education Movement, and in 1966 he initiated the Cultural Revolution, a program to remove "counter-revolutionary" elements in Chinese society which lasted 10 years and was marked by violent class struggle, widespread destruction of cultural artifacts, and an unprecedented elevation of Mao's cult of personality. Tens of millions of people were persecuted during the Revolution, while the estimated number of deaths ranges from hundreds of thousands to millions. After years of ill health, Mao suffered a series of heart attacks in 1976 and died at the age of 82. During the Mao era, China's population grew from around 550 million to over 900 million while the government did not strictly enforce its family planning policy.
Widely regarded as one of the most influential figures of the twentieth century, Mao remains a controversial figure within and outside China. Beyond politics, Mao is also known as a theorist, military strategist, and poet. Mao has been credited with transforming China from a semi-colony to a leading world power, with greatly advanced literacy, women's rights, basic healthcare, primary education and life expectancy. However, Mao's government was responsible for vast numbers of deaths, with estimates ranging from 40 to 80 million victims through starvation, persecution, prison labour, and mass executions. During his leadership tenure, China was heavily involved with other Asian communist conflicts such as the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Cambodian Civil War.
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Mao's government was responsible for vast numbers of deaths, with estimates ranging from 40 to 80 million victims through starvation, persecution, prison labour, and mass executions.
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### Question: Given this text of Mao Zedong, tell me how many people were killed in Mao's era through starvation, persecution, prison labour, and mass executions?### Answer: Mao's government was responsible for vast numbers of deaths, with estimates ranging from 40 to 80 million victims through starvation, persecution, prison labour, and mass executions.
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Why is the 1980 gold medal match in hockey called the 'Miracle on Ice'?
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The US Olympic hockey team was a heavy underdog against the Soviets in 1980, and their victory over the Soviets was a surprise to nearly everyone. As the game concluded, Al Michaels, the play-by-play announcer for the game, exclaimed "Do you believe in miracles? Yes!', and because many people around the world watched the game on television, the game became known as the 'Miracle on Ice'.
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### Question: Why is the 1980 gold medal match in hockey called the 'Miracle on Ice'?### Answer: The US Olympic hockey team was a heavy underdog against the Soviets in 1980, and their victory over the Soviets was a surprise to nearly everyone. As the game concluded, Al Michaels, the play-by-play announcer for the game, exclaimed "Do you believe in miracles? Yes!', and because many people around the world watched the game on television, the game became known as the 'Miracle on Ice'.
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Which NFL teams have gone to the Super Bowl only once and won?
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New Orleans Saints and New York Jets
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### Question: Which NFL teams have gone to the Super Bowl only once and won?### Answer: New Orleans Saints and New York Jets
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What is non dual philosophy?
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The word non dual refers to things or experiences that happen to us which has the characteristics of uniformity. As an example in daily life we see or experience highs and lows, haves and have nots that result in emotions or feelings of happiness or sadness. The concept of non duality is to go deep within and understand that everything is temporary, and experience things before human thought labels each experience as good or bad.
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### Question: What is non dual philosophy?### Answer: The word non dual refers to things or experiences that happen to us which has the characteristics of uniformity. As an example in daily life we see or experience highs and lows, haves and have nots that result in emotions or feelings of happiness or sadness. The concept of non duality is to go deep within and understand that everything is temporary, and experience things before human thought labels each experience as good or bad.
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What is a reporting dashboard?
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A reporting dashboard is a way to show business metrics and business insights based on business data. It enables high level leadership and management to make and implement decisions that have a positive affect on a Company's revenue. These benefits include both added revenue and stopping lost revenue. Data Analyst work with Data Engineers to develop these dashboards and reporting.
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### Question: What is a reporting dashboard?### Answer: A reporting dashboard is a way to show business metrics and business insights based on business data. It enables high level leadership and management to make and implement decisions that have a positive affect on a Company's revenue. These benefits include both added revenue and stopping lost revenue. Data Analyst work with Data Engineers to develop these dashboards and reporting.
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What is the difference between retinol and tretinoin?
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Everyone’s skin is different, but no one’s skin is immune to the effects of sunlight, stress, and natural aging. To treat these effects, you might decide to use retinoids.
Retinoids are chemical compounds related to vitamin A.
Retinol and tretinoin are both examples of retinoids. Tretinoin can also be called all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA).
When it comes to treating your skin, the biggest difference between these two compounds is their strength.
Retinol is a vital nutrient. It’s fat-soluble, which means it can stay in your body for a long time. Your liver can take this stored retinol and convert it into tretinoin. Your body will use the tretinoin for a variety of biological functions.
For the purposes of skin care, tretinoin can be thought of as a more concentrated version of retinol. This means that tretinoin is stronger than retinol.
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### Question: What is the difference between retinol and tretinoin?### Answer: Everyone’s skin is different, but no one’s skin is immune to the effects of sunlight, stress, and natural aging. To treat these effects, you might decide to use retinoids.
Retinoids are chemical compounds related to vitamin A.
Retinol and tretinoin are both examples of retinoids. Tretinoin can also be called all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA).
When it comes to treating your skin, the biggest difference between these two compounds is their strength.
Retinol is a vital nutrient. It’s fat-soluble, which means it can stay in your body for a long time. Your liver can take this stored retinol and convert it into tretinoin. Your body will use the tretinoin for a variety of biological functions.
For the purposes of skin care, tretinoin can be thought of as a more concentrated version of retinol. This means that tretinoin is stronger than retinol.
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Why did Kim Kardashian and Ye divorce?
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Kim and Ye were living two separate lives. Kim was in Hidden Hills, CA taking care of their four kids while Ye was developing the acres of land he bought in Wyoming. Ye began creating a whole self-sustaining community of christian devoted followers while Kim was filming her show and studying to become a lawyer. They began to grow a part, not to mention claims of both of them cheating. After two years trying to become divorced, they most recently officially became divorced and Ye must pay Kim $200,000 per month for security of their kids. Kim bought their house from Ye and other financials were settled.
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### Question: Why did Kim Kardashian and Ye divorce?### Answer: Kim and Ye were living two separate lives. Kim was in Hidden Hills, CA taking care of their four kids while Ye was developing the acres of land he bought in Wyoming. Ye began creating a whole self-sustaining community of christian devoted followers while Kim was filming her show and studying to become a lawyer. They began to grow a part, not to mention claims of both of them cheating. After two years trying to become divorced, they most recently officially became divorced and Ye must pay Kim $200,000 per month for security of their kids. Kim bought their house from Ye and other financials were settled.
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What is a graph?
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Graph is a set on nodes that are connected via edges. Edges represent the relationships between the nodes and can have multiple properties like weight or sign. For example the weight of the edge can represent how strong are the relationships between the nodes A and B, while the sign might represent wether these relationships are positive or negative.
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### Question: What is a graph?### Answer: Graph is a set on nodes that are connected via edges. Edges represent the relationships between the nodes and can have multiple properties like weight or sign. For example the weight of the edge can represent how strong are the relationships between the nodes A and B, while the sign might represent wether these relationships are positive or negative.
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Given a reference text about Will Ferrell, tell me where he kickstarted his career, what group of comic actors he is considered part of, and how many Golden Globe Award nominations he has.
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John William Ferrell (/ˈfɛrəl/; born July 16, 1967) is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer. Ferrell first established himself in the mid-1990s as a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live, where he performed from 1995 to 2002, and has subsequently starred in comedy films such as Elf (2003), Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004), Kicking & Screaming (2005), Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006), Semi-Pro (2008), Step Brothers (2008), and Land of the Lost (2009). He founded the comedy website Funny or Die in 2007 with his writing partner Adam McKay. Other notable film roles include Stranger than Fiction (2006), The Other Guys (2010), The Campaign (2012), Get Hard (2015), Holmes & Watson (2018), and the animated films Curious George (2006), Megamind (2010) and The Lego Movie film franchise (2014–2019).
Ferrell is considered a member of the "Frat Pack", a generation of leading Hollywood comic actors who emerged in the late 1990s and the 2000s, including Jack Black, Ben Stiller, Steve Carell, Vince Vaughn, Paul Rudd, and brothers Owen and Luke Wilson. He received an Emmy Award nomination for his work on Saturday Night Live, and three Golden Globe Award nominations for acting in The Producers (2005) and Stranger than Fiction (2006) and for producing Vice (2018). He was also named the best comedian of 2015 in the British GQ Men of the Year awards. Ferrell received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on March 24, 2015.
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Will Ferrell kickstarted his career on the NBC sketch comedy series "Saturday Night Live". He is considered part of the "Frat Pack", and has received three Golden Globe Award nominations.
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### Question: Given a reference text about Will Ferrell, tell me where he kickstarted his career, what group of comic actors he is considered part of, and how many Golden Globe Award nominations he has.### Answer: Will Ferrell kickstarted his career on the NBC sketch comedy series "Saturday Night Live". He is considered part of the "Frat Pack", and has received three Golden Globe Award nominations.
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When was Tomoaki Komorida born?
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Komorida was born in Kumamoto Prefecture on July 10, 1981. After graduating from high school, he joined the J1 League club Avispa Fukuoka in 2000. Although he debuted as a midfielder in 2001, he did not play much and the club was relegated to the J2 League at the end of the 2001 season. In 2002, he moved to the J2 club Oita Trinita. He became a regular player as a defensive midfielder and the club won the championship in 2002 and was promoted in 2003. He played many matches until 2005. In September 2005, he moved to the J2 club Montedio Yamagata. In 2006, he moved to the J2 club Vissel Kobe. Although he became a regular player as a defensive midfielder, his gradually was played less during the summer. In 2007, he moved to the Japan Football League club Rosso Kumamoto (later Roasso Kumamoto) based in his local region. He played as a regular player and the club was promoted to J2 in 2008. Although he did not play as much, he still played in many matches. In 2010, he moved to Indonesia and joined Persela Lamongan. In July 2010, he returned to Japan and joined the J2 club Giravanz Kitakyushu. He played often as a defensive midfielder and center back until 2012 when he retired.
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Tomoaki Komorida was born on July 10,1981.
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### Question: When was Tomoaki Komorida born?### Answer: Tomoaki Komorida was born on July 10,1981.
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What is Ultimate Frisbee?
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Ultimate Frisbee is a popular sport around the world. It is played both recreationally and at a semi-professional level. It is played with two teams of 7 players who square off against each other on a field that is about the size of an American football field (120x40 yards). Much like American football, the objective is to catch the Frisbee, or disc, in the end zone in order to score points. The run of play, however, is continuous like soccer. Players cannot run while holding the disc, requiring teams to progress down the field by throwing the disc to each other. Each player must release the disc within 10 seconds of acquiring it. Under normal circumstances, the first team to score 15 points wins.
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### Question: What is Ultimate Frisbee?### Answer: Ultimate Frisbee is a popular sport around the world. It is played both recreationally and at a semi-professional level. It is played with two teams of 7 players who square off against each other on a field that is about the size of an American football field (120x40 yards). Much like American football, the objective is to catch the Frisbee, or disc, in the end zone in order to score points. The run of play, however, is continuous like soccer. Players cannot run while holding the disc, requiring teams to progress down the field by throwing the disc to each other. Each player must release the disc within 10 seconds of acquiring it. Under normal circumstances, the first team to score 15 points wins.
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What is JavaScript?
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JavaScript, often abbreviated as JS, is a programming language that is one of the core technologies of the World Wide Web, alongside HTML and CSS. As of 2022, 98% of websites use JavaScript on the client side for webpage behavior, often incorporating third-party libraries. All major web browsers have a dedicated JavaScript engine to execute the code on users' devices.
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### Question: What is JavaScript?### Answer: JavaScript, often abbreviated as JS, is a programming language that is one of the core technologies of the World Wide Web, alongside HTML and CSS. As of 2022, 98% of websites use JavaScript on the client side for webpage behavior, often incorporating third-party libraries. All major web browsers have a dedicated JavaScript engine to execute the code on users' devices.
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How should I maintain my bicycle?
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Keep your bicycle clean. Most important of all, keep your bicycle’s drivetrain clean. A bicycle’s drivetrain is the chain, chainrings and pulleys which make the rear wheel turn. If you can, wipe down the drivetrain with a cleaning lubricant made for bicycle drivetrains after each long ride, or every other short ride. Doing so will ensure that your ride is noticeably more enjoyable. Shifting will remain smooth and reliable, and pedaling will be easier. Dirty drivetrains are squeaky and loud. Your clean drivetrain will be nice and quiet. Your clean drivetrain will also last much longer since you are regularly cleaning away the dirt and other road grit and sweat which collects in the chain and grinds away everything it touches. If you are unable to maintain your bicycle, take it to the local bike shop at least once a year for maintenance and tune up. You won’t regret it.
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### Question: How should I maintain my bicycle?### Answer: Keep your bicycle clean. Most important of all, keep your bicycle’s drivetrain clean. A bicycle’s drivetrain is the chain, chainrings and pulleys which make the rear wheel turn. If you can, wipe down the drivetrain with a cleaning lubricant made for bicycle drivetrains after each long ride, or every other short ride. Doing so will ensure that your ride is noticeably more enjoyable. Shifting will remain smooth and reliable, and pedaling will be easier. Dirty drivetrains are squeaky and loud. Your clean drivetrain will be nice and quiet. Your clean drivetrain will also last much longer since you are regularly cleaning away the dirt and other road grit and sweat which collects in the chain and grinds away everything it touches. If you are unable to maintain your bicycle, take it to the local bike shop at least once a year for maintenance and tune up. You won’t regret it.
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Which country is alphabetically last
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Zimbabwe
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### Question: Which country is alphabetically last### Answer: Zimbabwe
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Where was Jeff Bezos born?
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Jeffrey Preston Bezos (/ˈbeɪzoʊs/ BAY-zohss; né Jorgensen; born January 12, 1964) is an American entrepreneur, media proprietor, investor, and commercial astronaut. He is the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon. With a net worth of US$121 billion as of March 2023, Bezos is the third-wealthiest person in the world and was the wealthiest from 2017 to 2021, according to both Bloomberg's Billionaires Index and Forbes.
Born in Albuquerque and raised in Houston and Miami, Bezos graduated from Princeton University in 1986. He holds a degree in electrical engineering and computer science. He worked on Wall Street in a variety of related fields from 1986 to early 1994. Bezos founded Amazon in late 1994 on a road trip from New York City to Seattle. The company began as an online bookstore and has since expanded to a variety of other e-commerce products and services, including video and audio streaming, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. It is the world's largest online sales company, the largest Internet company by revenue, and the largest provider of virtual assistants and cloud infrastructure services through its Amazon Web Services branch.
Bezos founded the aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company Blue Origin in 2000. Blue Origin's New Shepard vehicle reached space in 2015 and afterwards successfully landed back on Earth; he flew into space on Blue Origin NS-16 in 2021. He also purchased the major American newspaper The Washington Post in 2013 for $250 million and manages many other investments through his venture capital firm, Bezos Expeditions. In September 2021, Bezos co-founded biotechnology company Altos Labs with Mail.ru founder Yuri Milner.
The first centibillionaire on the Forbes Real Time Billionaires Index and the second ever to have eclipsed the feat since Bill Gates in 1999, Bezos was named the "richest man in modern history" after his net worth increased to $150 billion in July 2018. In August 2020, according to Forbes, he had a net worth exceeding $200 billion. In 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, his wealth grew by approximately $24 billion. On July 5, 2021, Bezos stepped down as the CEO and president of Amazon and took over the role of executive chairman. AWS CEO Andy Jassy succeeded Bezos as the CEO and president of Amazon. In September 2022, he was ranked second on the Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans with a net worth of $151 billion.
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Jeffrey Preston Bezos, born January 12, 1964, is an American entrepreneur, media proprietor, investor, and commercial astronaut. He is the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon. With a net worth of US$121 billion as of March 2023, Bezos is the third-wealthiest person in the world and was the wealthiest from 2017 to 2021, according to both Bloomberg's Billionaires Index and Forbes.
Born in Albuquerque and raised in Houston and Miami, Bezos graduated from Princeton University in 1986. He holds a degree in electrical engineering and computer science. He worked on Wall Street in a variety of related fields from 1986 to early 1994. Bezos founded Amazon in late 1994 on a road trip from New York City to Seattle. The company began as an online bookstore and has since expanded to a variety of other e-commerce products and services, including video and audio streaming, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. It is the world's largest online sales company, the largest Internet company by revenue, and the largest provider of virtual assistants and cloud infrastructure services through its Amazon Web Services branch.
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### Question: Where was Jeff Bezos born?### Answer: Jeffrey Preston Bezos, born January 12, 1964, is an American entrepreneur, media proprietor, investor, and commercial astronaut. He is the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon. With a net worth of US$121 billion as of March 2023, Bezos is the third-wealthiest person in the world and was the wealthiest from 2017 to 2021, according to both Bloomberg's Billionaires Index and Forbes.
Born in Albuquerque and raised in Houston and Miami, Bezos graduated from Princeton University in 1986. He holds a degree in electrical engineering and computer science. He worked on Wall Street in a variety of related fields from 1986 to early 1994. Bezos founded Amazon in late 1994 on a road trip from New York City to Seattle. The company began as an online bookstore and has since expanded to a variety of other e-commerce products and services, including video and audio streaming, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. It is the world's largest online sales company, the largest Internet company by revenue, and the largest provider of virtual assistants and cloud infrastructure services through its Amazon Web Services branch.
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List some common symptoms that someone may experience if they acquired a gastrointestinal bug.
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Common symptoms someone who has a gastrointestinal infection may experience include cramping, diarrhea, low-grade fever, vomiting, and nausea.
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### Question: List some common symptoms that someone may experience if they acquired a gastrointestinal bug.### Answer: Common symptoms someone who has a gastrointestinal infection may experience include cramping, diarrhea, low-grade fever, vomiting, and nausea.
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Who wrote Gone with the Wind
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Margaret Mitchell
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### Question: Who wrote Gone with the Wind### Answer: Margaret Mitchell
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How many official languages are spoken in India?
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Republic of India as a nation has over 122 major languages and 1599 other languages but the latest constitution records officially 22 languages. These are classified as scheduled languages which has recognition and status.
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### Question: How many official languages are spoken in India?### Answer: Republic of India as a nation has over 122 major languages and 1599 other languages but the latest constitution records officially 22 languages. These are classified as scheduled languages which has recognition and status.
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Who was Thomas Ransom
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Thomas Harvey Ransom (August 8, 1870 – June 3, 1946) was an American football and basketball coach and a doctor.
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### Question: Who was Thomas Ransom### Answer: Thomas Harvey Ransom (August 8, 1870 – June 3, 1946) was an American football and basketball coach and a doctor.
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Why was there a lockout during the 1998-1999 NBA season?
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The 1998–99 NBA season was the Hawks' 50th season in the National Basketball Association, and 31st season in Atlanta. On March 23, 1998, the owners of all 29 NBA teams voted 27–2 to reopen the league's collective bargaining agreement, seeking changes to the league's salary cap system, and a ceiling on individual player salaries. The National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) opposed to the owners' plan, and wanted raises for players who earned the league's minimum salary. After both sides failed to reach an agreement, the owners called for a lockout, which began on July 1, 1998, putting a hold on all team trades, free agent signings and training camp workouts, and cancelling many NBA regular season and preseason games. Due to the lockout, the NBA All-Star Game, which was scheduled to be played in Philadelphia on February 14, 1999, was also cancelled. However, on January 6, 1999, NBA commissioner David Stern, and NBPA director Billy Hunter finally reached an agreement to end the lockout. The deal was approved by both the players and owners, and was signed on January 20, ending the lockout after 204 days. The regular season began on February 5, and was cut short to just 50 games instead of the regular 82-game schedule
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The players and owners failed to reach an agreement on salaries.
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### Question: Why was there a lockout during the 1998-1999 NBA season?### Answer: The players and owners failed to reach an agreement on salaries.
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Who was given EY Entrepreneur of the year award 2020 ?
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Kiran Mazumdar Shaw
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### Question: Who was given EY Entrepreneur of the year award 2020 ?### Answer: Kiran Mazumdar Shaw
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When was the World Investment Report 2021 released by UNCTAD?
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### Question: When was the World Investment Report 2021 released by UNCTAD?### Answer: June 21, 2021
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What is the benefit of having BDRS and SDRs?
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Regardless of technological development, the key to fostering business relationships and leading to deals closed is heavily dependant on human connection. The ability for BDRs and SDRs to become industry experts and be able to solve problems/be solution oriented is relative to the value that they bring to the table. Furthermore, BDRs and SDRs become an extension to your internal sales and marketing teams to help provide key industry insights and generate pipeline which leads to closed business. Sales is the lifeblood of most organisations and BDRs/SDRs are a crucial aspect of such.
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### Question: What is the benefit of having BDRS and SDRs?### Answer: Regardless of technological development, the key to fostering business relationships and leading to deals closed is heavily dependant on human connection. The ability for BDRs and SDRs to become industry experts and be able to solve problems/be solution oriented is relative to the value that they bring to the table. Furthermore, BDRs and SDRs become an extension to your internal sales and marketing teams to help provide key industry insights and generate pipeline which leads to closed business. Sales is the lifeblood of most organisations and BDRs/SDRs are a crucial aspect of such.
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What is Delta Lake?
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Delta Lake is an open source storage layer that brings reliability to data lakes. Delta Lake provides ACID transactions, scalable metadata handling, and unifies streaming and batch data processing. Delta Lake runs on top of your existing data lake and is fully compatible with Apache Spark APIs.
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### Question: What is Delta Lake?### Answer: Delta Lake is an open source storage layer that brings reliability to data lakes. Delta Lake provides ACID transactions, scalable metadata handling, and unifies streaming and batch data processing. Delta Lake runs on top of your existing data lake and is fully compatible with Apache Spark APIs.
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What decade is the Great Gatsby set in, and what is the nickname for that time period?
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The Great Gatsby is set in the 1920s, known as the Roaring Twenties
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### Question: What decade is the Great Gatsby set in, and what is the nickname for that time period?### Answer: The Great Gatsby is set in the 1920s, known as the Roaring Twenties
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What is random access memory?
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Random access memory (RAM) is a type of computer memory used to store data that can be accessed quickly. It is also known as dynamic random access memory (DRAM) and is used to store the instructions and data for a computer's operating system and applications. RAM is volatile memory, meaning it will lose its data if the power is turned off. It is also much faster than other types of memory such as hard disk drives and solid state drives.
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### Question: What is random access memory?### Answer: Random access memory (RAM) is a type of computer memory used to store data that can be accessed quickly. It is also known as dynamic random access memory (DRAM) and is used to store the instructions and data for a computer's operating system and applications. RAM is volatile memory, meaning it will lose its data if the power is turned off. It is also much faster than other types of memory such as hard disk drives and solid state drives.
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Given this reference text about the Catholic University of America, tell me when it was established, where it is located, and who founded it.
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The Catholic University of America (CUA) is a private Roman Catholic research university in Washington, D.C. It is a pontifical university of the Catholic Church in the United States and the only institution of higher education founded by U.S. Catholic bishops. Established in 1887 as a graduate and research center following approval by Pope Leo XIII, the university began offering undergraduate education in 1904. It is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity".
Its campus is adjacent to the Brookland neighborhood, known as "Little Rome", which contains 60 Catholic institutions, including Trinity Washington University, the Dominican House of Studies, and Archbishop Carroll High School, as well as the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
CUA's programs emphasize the liberal arts, professional education, and personal development. The school stays closely connected with the Catholic Church and Catholic organizations. The residential U.S. cardinals put on the American Cardinals Dinner each year to raise scholarship funds. The university also has a long history of working with the Knights of Columbus; its law school and basilica have dedications to the involvement and support of the Knights.
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The Catholic University was founded in 1887 by the US Catholic Bishops, and is located in Washington, DC.
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### Question: Given this reference text about the Catholic University of America, tell me when it was established, where it is located, and who founded it.### Answer: The Catholic University was founded in 1887 by the US Catholic Bishops, and is located in Washington, DC.
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List some of the characters on The X-Files who were infected by, but did not die from, exposure to the alien black oil virus.
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Alex Krycek, Dana Scully, Fox Mulder, Marita Covarrubias, Dmitri, Bernard Gauthier, Joan Gauthier
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### Question: List some of the characters on The X-Files who were infected by, but did not die from, exposure to the alien black oil virus.### Answer: Alex Krycek, Dana Scully, Fox Mulder, Marita Covarrubias, Dmitri, Bernard Gauthier, Joan Gauthier
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Which company produces Hibiki Whisky?
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Hibiki (Japanese: 響) (meaning "resonance" or "echo") is a premium blended whisky produced in Japan by Beam Suntory (a subsidiary of Suntory Beverage & Food Ltd, which itself is a subsidiary of Suntory Holdings of Osaka, Japan). It has won several awards.
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Hibiki Whisky is a premium blended whisky produced in Japan by Beam Suntory, a subsidiary of Suntory Beverage & Food Ltd / Suntory Holdings of Osaka, Japan.
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### Question: Which company produces Hibiki Whisky?### Answer: Hibiki Whisky is a premium blended whisky produced in Japan by Beam Suntory, a subsidiary of Suntory Beverage & Food Ltd / Suntory Holdings of Osaka, Japan.
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What are some of the most important attributes of spacecraft battery and how are these attributes realized?
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Some of the most important attributes are reliability, low mass. Reliability is often achieved through qualification testing, demonstrated performance in a flight environment and configuration management. Mass can be minimized by using high-performance Li-ion batteries that are optimized for the anticipated use case and by right-sizing the battery to meet end of mission power requirements using calibrated battery life and performance models.
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### Question: What are some of the most important attributes of spacecraft battery and how are these attributes realized?### Answer: Some of the most important attributes are reliability, low mass. Reliability is often achieved through qualification testing, demonstrated performance in a flight environment and configuration management. Mass can be minimized by using high-performance Li-ion batteries that are optimized for the anticipated use case and by right-sizing the battery to meet end of mission power requirements using calibrated battery life and performance models.
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Which TV show from the 80s and 90s features a bar owned by a former baseball player?
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Cheers
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### Question: Which TV show from the 80s and 90s features a bar owned by a former baseball player?### Answer: Cheers
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Given a reference text about the Spellenspektakel, tell me where it takes place and what games are played.
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The Spellenspektakel is the largest board game convention in the Netherlands, featuring game demonstrations, tournaments and other game related activities. It focusses on traditional strategy boardgames, collectible card games, pen-and-paper role-playing games and miniatures wargames. Game publishers participate by showing and demonstrating their new releases to the public. Additionally, the Spellenspektakel hosts numerous game stores and player communities. Visitors can try any game on display and buy the ones they prefer. During the 2019 edition at the Jaarbeurs venue in Utrecht, the Spellenspektakel welcomed over 14,000 people
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The Spellenspektakel takes place in the Netherlands where board games are played.
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### Question: Given a reference text about the Spellenspektakel, tell me where it takes place and what games are played.### Answer: The Spellenspektakel takes place in the Netherlands where board games are played.
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What is the best club soccer team in Spain?
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Real Madrid
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### Question: What is the best club soccer team in Spain?### Answer: Real Madrid
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Who developed calculus and when was it discovered?
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Calculus was discovered in the late 17th century by Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz. Calculus is also required curriculum in most colleges and high schools if you study mathematics or physics. Calculus deals with two main concepts - integration and differentiation. These concepts and formulas in calculus help us understand rates of changes, and areas with respect to time.
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### Question: Who developed calculus and when was it discovered?### Answer: Calculus was discovered in the late 17th century by Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz. Calculus is also required curriculum in most colleges and high schools if you study mathematics or physics. Calculus deals with two main concepts - integration and differentiation. These concepts and formulas in calculus help us understand rates of changes, and areas with respect to time.
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Given these paragraphs, tell me what a recurrent neural network , and how it differs from a convolutional neural network.
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A recurrent neural network (RNN) is a class of artificial neural networks where connections between nodes can create a cycle, allowing output from some nodes to affect subsequent input to the same nodes. This allows it to exhibit temporal dynamic behavior. Derived from feedforward neural networks, RNNs can use their internal state (memory) to process variable length sequences of inputs. This makes them applicable to tasks such as unsegmented, connected handwriting recognition or speech recognition. Recurrent neural networks are theoretically Turing complete and can run arbitrary programs to process arbitrary sequences of inputs.
The term "recurrent neural network" is used to refer to the class of networks with an infinite impulse response, whereas "convolutional neural network" refers to the class of finite impulse response. Both classes of networks exhibit temporal dynamic behavior. A finite impulse recurrent network is a directed acyclic graph that can be unrolled and replaced with a strictly feedforward neural network, while an infinite impulse recurrent network is a directed cyclic graph that can not be unrolled.
Both finite impulse and infinite impulse recurrent networks can have additional stored states, and the storage can be under direct control by the neural network. The storage can also be replaced by another network or graph if that incorporates time delays or has feedback loops. Such controlled states are referred to as gated state or gated memory, and are part of long short-term memory networks (LSTMs) and gated recurrent units. This is also called Feedback Neural Network (FNN).
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A recurrent neural network is a class of artificial neural networks where connections between nodes can create a cycle, allowing output from some nodes to affect subsequent input to the same nodes.The term "recurrent neural network" is used to refer to the class of networks with an infinite impulse response, whereas "convolutional neural network" refers to the class of finite impulse response.
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### Question: Given these paragraphs, tell me what a recurrent neural network , and how it differs from a convolutional neural network.### Answer: A recurrent neural network is a class of artificial neural networks where connections between nodes can create a cycle, allowing output from some nodes to affect subsequent input to the same nodes.The term "recurrent neural network" is used to refer to the class of networks with an infinite impulse response, whereas "convolutional neural network" refers to the class of finite impulse response.
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Who is the most decorated olympian of all time?
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Michael Phelps is the most decorated olympian winning a total of 28 medals.
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### Question: Who is the most decorated olympian of all time?### Answer: Michael Phelps is the most decorated olympian winning a total of 28 medals.
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Given this paragraph about Sam Baker, what is the Outland Trophy?
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Baker attended the University of Southern California, where he played for coach Pete Carroll's USC Trojans football team from 2003 to 2007. He was a first-team All-American as a redshirt sophomore in 2005.
He was on the official 2006 watch list for the Lombardi Award and the Outland Trophy for the best lineman. In his collegiate career Baker blocked for Reggie Bush and Matt Leinart. He was named a first-team All-Pacific-10 Conference selection by the league's coaches in 2005 and 2006. He was a recognized as a consensus first-team All-American, having received first-team honors from the Football Writers Association of America, Sporting News and CBSSports.com.
Going into his fourth year as a starter, Baker was on the Lombardi Award and Outland Trophy watch lists. He was ranked as one of the "Top 20 Players Heading Into 2007" by Sports Illustrated. Before his final season in 2007, Baker was already regarded by most NFL scouts as a certain top-five player in the 2008 NFL Draft.
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The Outland Trophy is given to the best offensive lineman in college football.
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### Question: Given this paragraph about Sam Baker, what is the Outland Trophy?### Answer: The Outland Trophy is given to the best offensive lineman in college football.
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What is a brief summary of the book, "The Well-Educated Mind, A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had", written by Susan Wise Bauer?
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Susan Wise Bauer took inspiration from Mortimer Adler's book, "How to Read A Book", in writing her book, "The Well-Educated Mind, A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had." One of the highlights of the book is a reading list of classics from six genres of writing. The six genres Bauer focuses upon are novels, autobiography, history and politics, drama, poetry and natural sciences. She describes how to approach each genre as a reader, how to ask good questions of the author and how to formulate your own viewpoint of the topic. For each genre, when presenting the book list, she gives you a summary of each book, the best revision of the book to read and her initial impressions of the authors viewpoint. Bauer's book is not meant to be read from cover to cover, but to be a guide as you work through the reading list of each genre. Reading Bauer's book is like having your own college level professor guiding you through the classics. At the end of this guide, if you have read every book on Bauer's recommended list, you will be able to consider yourself well read.
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### Question: What is a brief summary of the book, "The Well-Educated Mind, A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had", written by Susan Wise Bauer?### Answer: Susan Wise Bauer took inspiration from Mortimer Adler's book, "How to Read A Book", in writing her book, "The Well-Educated Mind, A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had." One of the highlights of the book is a reading list of classics from six genres of writing. The six genres Bauer focuses upon are novels, autobiography, history and politics, drama, poetry and natural sciences. She describes how to approach each genre as a reader, how to ask good questions of the author and how to formulate your own viewpoint of the topic. For each genre, when presenting the book list, she gives you a summary of each book, the best revision of the book to read and her initial impressions of the authors viewpoint. Bauer's book is not meant to be read from cover to cover, but to be a guide as you work through the reading list of each genre. Reading Bauer's book is like having your own college level professor guiding you through the classics. At the end of this guide, if you have read every book on Bauer's recommended list, you will be able to consider yourself well read.
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According to this paragraph about the University of Virginia, where did Edgar Allan Poe live during his time at the university?
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It is considered a great honor to be invited to live on The Lawn, and 54 fourth-year undergraduates do so each year, joining ten members of the faculty who permanently live and teach in the Pavilions there. Similarly, graduate students may live on The Range. Edgar Allan Poe formerly lived in 13 West Range, and since 1904 the Raven Society has retrofitted and preserved his room much as it may have existed in the 1820s.
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Edgar Allen Poe lived in 13 West Range on The Lawn at the University of Virginia.
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### Question: According to this paragraph about the University of Virginia, where did Edgar Allan Poe live during his time at the university?### Answer: Edgar Allen Poe lived in 13 West Range on The Lawn at the University of Virginia.
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Given a reference text about the Queen Isabella Memorial Bridge, tell me how long it is and when it opened.
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Queen Isabella Memorial Bridge was developed as a concrete pier-and-beam bridge with a steel cantilever main beam span. The memorial bridge has a travel distance of 2.5 miles (4.0 km) and sustains the continuation of Texas Park Road 100. The watercourse thoroughfare is located in southern Cameron County, Texas and is the only road connecting South Padre Island to the geography of Texas.
The Causeway opened in 1974 and replaced the previous bridge, which had also been named Queen Isabella Causeway. A central section of the original causeway was removed and renamed the Queen Isabella State Fishing Pier. The Causeway is the second-longest bridge in Texas, stretching 2.37 miles (3.81 km) across the Laguna Madre. It is named after Queen Isabella of Castile
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The Queen Isabella Memorial Bridge opened in 1974 and is 2.5 miles long.
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### Question: Given a reference text about the Queen Isabella Memorial Bridge, tell me how long it is and when it opened.### Answer: The Queen Isabella Memorial Bridge opened in 1974 and is 2.5 miles long.
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Create an itinerary for 3 days in Park City Utah that is good for children and adults. Include hotels, food options, one day of skiing and activities.
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Ok, here are three days for a family trip to Park city.
Day one:
- Go grocery shopping at Whole Food Market to pick up snacks, and food for lunches.
- Pick up rental skiing at Christy's for all adults and children whole are skiing.
- Eat dinner at River Horse Tavern on Main street.
Day two:
- Go skiing at Park City Resort. Purchase day passes in person or pre-purchase Epic passes online.
- Stop with the kids at Rocky Mountain Chocolate Company for a treat.
- Eat dinner at High Saloon on Park Avenue.
Day three:
- Go to Park City Library which has a kids' section.
- Shop at galleries, thrift stores, or gift shops on Main Street.
- Eat dinner at Butcher House Chops and Grill.
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### Question: Create an itinerary for 3 days in Park City Utah that is good for children and adults. Include hotels, food options, one day of skiing and activities.### Answer: Ok, here are three days for a family trip to Park city.
Day one:
- Go grocery shopping at Whole Food Market to pick up snacks, and food for lunches.
- Pick up rental skiing at Christy's for all adults and children whole are skiing.
- Eat dinner at River Horse Tavern on Main street.
Day two:
- Go skiing at Park City Resort. Purchase day passes in person or pre-purchase Epic passes online.
- Stop with the kids at Rocky Mountain Chocolate Company for a treat.
- Eat dinner at High Saloon on Park Avenue.
Day three:
- Go to Park City Library which has a kids' section.
- Shop at galleries, thrift stores, or gift shops on Main Street.
- Eat dinner at Butcher House Chops and Grill.
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Why is my car making a clicking sound when I try to start it? The lights are turning on for a little bit but the engine is not turning over.
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It could be your battery, especially if you have left a light on overnight, or had the key in auxiliary mode for sometime as both of those will drain even a new batter in a short amount of time. If your battery is new you may be able to have it charged, but if your battery is older than 3 years you will probably need a new battery.
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### Question: Why is my car making a clicking sound when I try to start it? The lights are turning on for a little bit but the engine is not turning over.### Answer: It could be your battery, especially if you have left a light on overnight, or had the key in auxiliary mode for sometime as both of those will drain even a new batter in a short amount of time. If your battery is new you may be able to have it charged, but if your battery is older than 3 years you will probably need a new battery.
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When did World War II begin?
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World War II began on September 1st, 1939 when Hitler invaded Poland.
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### Question: When did World War II begin?### Answer: World War II began on September 1st, 1939 when Hitler invaded Poland.
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List the ten episode titles from the third season of "Game of Thrones" in broadcast order.
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Valar Dohaeris, Dark Wings, Dark Words, Walk of Punishment, And Now His Watch Is Ended, Kiss by Fire, The Climb, The Bear and the Maiden Fair, Second Sons, The Rains of Castamere, Mhysa
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### Question: List the ten episode titles from the third season of "Game of Thrones" in broadcast order.### Answer: Valar Dohaeris, Dark Wings, Dark Words, Walk of Punishment, And Now His Watch Is Ended, Kiss by Fire, The Climb, The Bear and the Maiden Fair, Second Sons, The Rains of Castamere, Mhysa
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What’s your favorite color?
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That is entirely up to the person. Some people like blue some people like red some people like green a very popular color is blue.
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### Question: What’s your favorite color?### Answer: That is entirely up to the person. Some people like blue some people like red some people like green a very popular color is blue.
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what are the benefit of meditation?
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Meditation practice will train mind to focus on specific objects, like: breath or body sensation, which will relief brain from high dense thoughts or strong emotions. It can help brain calm down and be present in current situation. It will avoid the mind to get lost in past regrets or get too anxious in the future desire. This is not only help brain to get great rest, but also an efficient exercise for brain to rebuild the neuron cells and extend their connections.
Reports showed, even 15 mins daily meditation can greatly help people with mitigating nervous, pressure, sadness and almost all negative emotions.
Long time mediation can lead mind in the "deep calm down" state, which can help people understanding things in the deep root and see things as they really are. These will be the foundation to trigger wisdom and enlightenment.
Just like human boy need work out, human brain also need exercise, which is meditation. Meditation now becomes more and more popular and lots of people already get benefit from it and keep it as a daily exercise.
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### Question: what are the benefit of meditation?### Answer: Meditation practice will train mind to focus on specific objects, like: breath or body sensation, which will relief brain from high dense thoughts or strong emotions. It can help brain calm down and be present in current situation. It will avoid the mind to get lost in past regrets or get too anxious in the future desire. This is not only help brain to get great rest, but also an efficient exercise for brain to rebuild the neuron cells and extend their connections.
Reports showed, even 15 mins daily meditation can greatly help people with mitigating nervous, pressure, sadness and almost all negative emotions.
Long time mediation can lead mind in the "deep calm down" state, which can help people understanding things in the deep root and see things as they really are. These will be the foundation to trigger wisdom and enlightenment.
Just like human boy need work out, human brain also need exercise, which is meditation. Meditation now becomes more and more popular and lots of people already get benefit from it and keep it as a daily exercise.
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Based on the reference text, why was the eastern section of the bridge rebuilt?
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The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, known locally as the Bay Bridge, is a complex of bridges spanning San Francisco Bay in California. As part of Interstate 80 and the direct road between San Francisco and Oakland, it carries about 260,000 vehicles a day on its two decks. It has one of the longest spans in the United States.
The toll bridge was conceived as early as the California Gold Rush days, with "Emperor" Joshua Norton famously advocating for it, but construction did not begin until 1933. Designed by Charles H. Purcell, and built by American Bridge Company, it opened on Thursday, November 12, 1936, six months before the Golden Gate Bridge. It originally carried automobile traffic on its upper deck, with trucks, cars, buses and commuter trains on the lower, but after the Key System abandoned rail service on April 20, 1958, the lower deck was converted to all-road traffic as well. On October 12, 1963, traffic was reconfigured to one way traffic on each deck, westbound on the upper deck, and eastbound on the lower deck, with trucks and buses allowed on the upper deck.
In 1986, the bridge was unofficially dedicated to former California Governor James Rolph.
The bridge has two sections of roughly equal length; the older western section, officially known as the Willie L. Brown Jr. Bridge (after former San Francisco Mayor and California State Assembly Speaker Willie L. Brown Jr.), connects downtown San Francisco to Yerba Buena Island, and the newer unnamed eastern section connects the island to Oakland. The western section is a double suspension bridge with two decks, westbound traffic being carried on the upper deck while eastbound is carried on the lower one. The largest span of the original eastern section was a cantilever bridge.
During the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, a portion of the eastern section's upper deck collapsed onto the lower deck and the bridge was closed for a month. Reconstruction of the eastern section of the bridge as a causeway connected to a self-anchored suspension bridge began in 2002; the new eastern section opened September 2, 2013, at a reported cost of over $6.5 billion; the original estimate of $250 million was for a seismic retrofit of the existing span. Unlike the western section and the original eastern section of the bridge, the new eastern section is a single deck carrying all eastbound and westbound lanes. Demolition of the old east span was completed on September 8, 2018.
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The eastern section of the bridge was rebuilt because a portion of its upper deck collapsed onto the lower deck during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.
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### Question: Based on the reference text, why was the eastern section of the bridge rebuilt?### Answer: The eastern section of the bridge was rebuilt because a portion of its upper deck collapsed onto the lower deck during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.
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The former Chairman of Tata Sons died in road accident en route from where?
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Ahmedabad to Mumbai
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### Question: The former Chairman of Tata Sons died in road accident en route from where?### Answer: Ahmedabad to Mumbai
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What is a small-world network?
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A small-world network is a mathematical graph in which most nodes are not neighbors of one another, but the neighbors of any given node are likely to be neighbors of each other. Due to this, most neighboring nodes can be reached from every other node by a small number of hops or steps. Specifically, a small-world network is defined to be a network where the typical distance L between two randomly chosen nodes (the number of steps required) grows proportionally to the logarithm of the number of nodes N in the network.
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A small-world network is a mathematical graph in which most nodes are not neighbors of one another, but the neighbors of any given node are likely to be neighbors of each other.
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### Question: What is a small-world network?### Answer: A small-world network is a mathematical graph in which most nodes are not neighbors of one another, but the neighbors of any given node are likely to be neighbors of each other.
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Why is the sky blue?
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Earth's atmosphere scatters short-wavelength light more efficiently than that of longer wavelengths. Because its wavelengths are shorter, blue light is more strongly scattered than the longer-wavelength lights, red or green. Hence, the result is that when looking at the sky away from the direct incident sunlight, the human eye perceives the sky to be blue.
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### Question: Why is the sky blue?### Answer: Earth's atmosphere scatters short-wavelength light more efficiently than that of longer wavelengths. Because its wavelengths are shorter, blue light is more strongly scattered than the longer-wavelength lights, red or green. Hence, the result is that when looking at the sky away from the direct incident sunlight, the human eye perceives the sky to be blue.
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What was the last item shown on British TV before WW2
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Mickey Mouse
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### Question: What was the last item shown on British TV before WW2### Answer: Mickey Mouse
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The LIVA Miss Diva Supranational 2021 was given to whom?
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Ritika Khatnani (Pune)
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### Question: The LIVA Miss Diva Supranational 2021 was given to whom?### Answer: Ritika Khatnani (Pune)
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Given this paragraph about Jordan, tell me where it is located and which countries it borders?
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Jordan (Arabic: الأردن, tr. Al-ʾUrdunn [al.ʔur.dunː]), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in Western Asia. It is situated at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, within the Levant region, on the East Bank of the Jordan River. Jordan is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the south and east, Iraq to the northeast, Syria to the north, and the Palestinian West Bank, Israel, and the Dead Sea to the west. It has a 26 km (16 mi) coastline in its southwest on the Gulf of Aqaba's Red Sea, which separates Jordan from Egypt. Amman is Jordan's capital and largest city, as well as its economic, political, and cultural centre.
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Jordan is a country in Western Asia and it is border by Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Syria, Palestine, and Israel.
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### Question: Given this paragraph about Jordan, tell me where it is located and which countries it borders?### Answer: Jordan is a country in Western Asia and it is border by Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Syria, Palestine, and Israel.
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The French flair is the way the French see life, it has to be grandiose in the sense that even the small thing can be beautiful, stylish, and unique. There is a special French flair in Rugby, where it comes with the sense that anything can happen, even the more desperate attack would be fully supported and played like a final rally, full of bravery. This type of behavior is feared as it is based on improvisation, and has been in the past very efficient even against the very best.
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What is the French Flair?
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### Question: The French flair is the way the French see life, it has to be grandiose in the sense that even the small thing can be beautiful, stylish, and unique. There is a special French flair in Rugby, where it comes with the sense that anything can happen, even the more desperate attack would be fully supported and played like a final rally, full of bravery. This type of behavior is feared as it is based on improvisation, and has been in the past very efficient even against the very best.### Answer: What is the French Flair?
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What is the Charles 'Chick' Evans Memorial Scholarship?
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The Charles "Chick" Evans Memorial Scholarship is given to deserving young caddies that have demonstrated excellence in the classroom, in their community and on the golf course. It is a full tuition paid scholarship and includes paid housing. The scholarship was referenced in the famous movie 'Caddyshack'.
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### Question: What is the Charles 'Chick' Evans Memorial Scholarship?### Answer: The Charles "Chick" Evans Memorial Scholarship is given to deserving young caddies that have demonstrated excellence in the classroom, in their community and on the golf course. It is a full tuition paid scholarship and includes paid housing. The scholarship was referenced in the famous movie 'Caddyshack'.
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When did the Post Office in Mission Beach first open?
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In the late 1920s after the construction of a road from El Arish, the area became a popular camping place. It was known as Mission Beach due to the mistaken belief that the Hull River Aboriginal Settlement previously located in the region was a religious mission. Mission Beach developed into a town during the 1940s and 50s with the Mission Beach Post Office opening on 15 December 1949.
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Mission Beach Post Office opened on 15 December 1949.
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### Question: When did the Post Office in Mission Beach first open?### Answer: Mission Beach Post Office opened on 15 December 1949.
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What are the four seasons, and what month does each season start in New York City?
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The four seasons are Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall. Winter starts in December, Spring in March, Summer in June and Fall in September
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### Question: What are the four seasons, and what month does each season start in New York City?### Answer: The four seasons are Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall. Winter starts in December, Spring in March, Summer in June and Fall in September
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Given a reference text about a former President of India, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, tell me when he was born, where he was raised and the subjects he specialised in studies. Why was Abdul Kalam known as the Missile Man of India?
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Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam BR (/ˈɑːbdəl kəˈlɑːm/ (listen); 15 October 1931 – 27 July 2015) was an Indian aerospace scientist and statesman who served as the 11th president of India from 2002 to 2007. He was born and raised in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu and studied physics and aerospace engineering. He spent the next four decades as a scientist and science administrator, mainly at the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and was intimately involved in India's civilian space programme and military missile development efforts. He thus came to be known as the Missile Man of India for his work on the development of ballistic missile and launch vehicle technology. He also played a pivotal organisational, technical, and political role in India's Pokhran-II nuclear tests in 1998, the first since the original nuclear test by India in 1974.
Kalam was elected as the 11th president of India in 2002 with the support of both the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and the then-opposition Indian National Congress. Widely referred to as the "People's President", he returned to his civilian life of education, writing and public service after a single term. He was a recipient of several prestigious awards, including the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour.
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Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam BR, referred to as APJ Abdul Kalam in short, was born on 15th October 1931. He was born and raised in Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu, South India. APJ Abdul Kalam specialised in Physics and Aerospace Engineering as part of his studies.
He had a career of around 4 decades as a scientist as well as an administrator with the organisations such as Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). In these roles, APJ Abdul Kalam played a key role in India's civilian space program and military missile development activities. He also played a vital role in the development of ballistic missile and launch vehicle technology. As a result of his above mentioned contributions, Abdul Kalam was known as the Missile Man of India.
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### Question: Given a reference text about a former President of India, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, tell me when he was born, where he was raised and the subjects he specialised in studies. Why was Abdul Kalam known as the Missile Man of India?### Answer: Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam BR, referred to as APJ Abdul Kalam in short, was born on 15th October 1931. He was born and raised in Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu, South India. APJ Abdul Kalam specialised in Physics and Aerospace Engineering as part of his studies.
He had a career of around 4 decades as a scientist as well as an administrator with the organisations such as Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). In these roles, APJ Abdul Kalam played a key role in India's civilian space program and military missile development activities. He also played a vital role in the development of ballistic missile and launch vehicle technology. As a result of his above mentioned contributions, Abdul Kalam was known as the Missile Man of India.
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What is the length of an Olympic size swimming pool?
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Olympic size swimming pool is 50 meters in length
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### Question: What is the length of an Olympic size swimming pool?### Answer: Olympic size swimming pool is 50 meters in length
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What are the words of House Smallwood?
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"From These Beginnings"
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### Question: What are the words of House Smallwood?### Answer: "From These Beginnings"
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How does the Harvard housing system work?
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First-Year students live in one of the seventeen dormitories located in and around Harvard Yard. Rooms are assigned based on a brief survey sent to admitted students. The survey asks questions like “How many roommates do you want?”, “How comfortable are you with noise?”, and “What type of music do you listen to?”. After the first year, the majority of students move into one of the twelve residential Houses. Houses are assigned in March of a student’s first year. Rather than randomly assigning individual students to houses and scattering close friends, students can assemble into “blocking groups” of no greater than 8 students and each group is randomly assigned to a House. If 8 friends aren’t enough, two blocking groups can link themselves in the lottery. Linked groups will not be assigned the same House but are guaranteed to be assigned the same Neighborhood (e.g. The Quad).
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### Question: How does the Harvard housing system work?### Answer: First-Year students live in one of the seventeen dormitories located in and around Harvard Yard. Rooms are assigned based on a brief survey sent to admitted students. The survey asks questions like “How many roommates do you want?”, “How comfortable are you with noise?”, and “What type of music do you listen to?”. After the first year, the majority of students move into one of the twelve residential Houses. Houses are assigned in March of a student’s first year. Rather than randomly assigning individual students to houses and scattering close friends, students can assemble into “blocking groups” of no greater than 8 students and each group is randomly assigned to a House. If 8 friends aren’t enough, two blocking groups can link themselves in the lottery. Linked groups will not be assigned the same House but are guaranteed to be assigned the same Neighborhood (e.g. The Quad).
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Based on the reference provided, what are some tactics firefighters use to stay safe while fighting wildfires?
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Outcomes from Project Vesta have been integrated into firefighter training in Australia and are beginning to appear in the United States.
Firefighters try to stay out of the dead man zone at all times, working from safe points such as burnt ground or a large area of non-burnable ground, such as a cricket or Australian rules football oval, or a large car park. This is achieved by attacking the fire from the flanks, or the rear, so that burnt ground is always nearby, and the fire is always in front of the firefighters. This avoids two disadvantages of attacking fires at the head of the fire where spot fires may start behind them or changes in wind behavior might accelerate the spread of the fire.
The result of several inquiries into firefighter death in Australian bushfires found that firefighters should stay out of the dead man zone and that they should always keep 250 liters of water in their truck for personal safety. This is now a standard operating procedure in the NSW Rural Fire Service, Country Fire Service and Country Fire Authority in Australia.
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Firefighters keep out of the dead man zone and carry large amounts of water (at least 250 liters) with them.
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### Question: Based on the reference provided, what are some tactics firefighters use to stay safe while fighting wildfires?### Answer: Firefighters keep out of the dead man zone and carry large amounts of water (at least 250 liters) with them.
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Have you ever seen the Milky Way?
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I have seen the Milky Way on a few occasions. Its usually on a clear, moonless night when I am in a remote location. For some reason, it is brighter when the air is colder. I don't get to see the MIlky Way often, but when I do, I am always amazed by its beauty.
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### Question: Have you ever seen the Milky Way?### Answer: I have seen the Milky Way on a few occasions. Its usually on a clear, moonless night when I am in a remote location. For some reason, it is brighter when the air is colder. I don't get to see the MIlky Way often, but when I do, I am always amazed by its beauty.
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Given this paragraph about a Tree well, why is it so dangerous for hikers, snowboarder, skiers and any snow practitioners
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A tree well, also known as a spruce trap, is the space around a tree under its branches that does not get the same amount of snow as the surrounding open space. This creates a void or area of loose snow below the branches and around the trunk that is dangerous to any hikers, snowshoers, skiers, snowboarders, and snowmobilers who fall into them. If someone lands in such a well, often as a result of a fall, it can be too deep for them to climb up the surrounding loose snow before they are buried. Making the situation more dangerous, they often fall into the well head-first and as the result of an accident which could leave them injured or unconscious
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It is dangerous because it creates an area of loose snow below the branches and around the trunk, and when someone will fall into this area it can be too deep for this person to climb up before they are buried. Another dangerous aspect is the fact that they could fall head-first which could leave them injured or unconscious.
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### Question: Given this paragraph about a Tree well, why is it so dangerous for hikers, snowboarder, skiers and any snow practitioners### Answer: It is dangerous because it creates an area of loose snow below the branches and around the trunk, and when someone will fall into this area it can be too deep for this person to climb up before they are buried. Another dangerous aspect is the fact that they could fall head-first which could leave them injured or unconscious.
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What is the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank (RCSB PDB)?
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The Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank (RCSB PDB) is a database that provides a wealth of information about the 3D structures of proteins, nucleic acids, and other macromolecules. The database contains experimentally determined atomic coordinates for a large number of macromolecules, which can be used to study their structures, functions, and interactions. The RCSB PDB is widely used in genomics research and drug discovery, as it provides a valuable resource for understanding the structural basis of many biological processes and for designing new drugs that target specific macromolecules.
In addition to the atomic coordinates, the RCSB PDB contains a wealth of additional information about each macromolecule, including experimental methods used for structure determination, citations to relevant scientific literature, and information about biological function, sequence, and homology. The database also provides a variety of tools and resources for visualizing, analyzing, and downloading structural data, including a web-based viewer that allows users to interactively explore the 3D structures of macromolecules.
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### Question: What is the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank (RCSB PDB)?### Answer: The Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank (RCSB PDB) is a database that provides a wealth of information about the 3D structures of proteins, nucleic acids, and other macromolecules. The database contains experimentally determined atomic coordinates for a large number of macromolecules, which can be used to study their structures, functions, and interactions. The RCSB PDB is widely used in genomics research and drug discovery, as it provides a valuable resource for understanding the structural basis of many biological processes and for designing new drugs that target specific macromolecules.
In addition to the atomic coordinates, the RCSB PDB contains a wealth of additional information about each macromolecule, including experimental methods used for structure determination, citations to relevant scientific literature, and information about biological function, sequence, and homology. The database also provides a variety of tools and resources for visualizing, analyzing, and downloading structural data, including a web-based viewer that allows users to interactively explore the 3D structures of macromolecules.
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