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What temperature can I expect at the summit if I climb Mount Kinabalu | The climate of the mountain varies from humid tropical at its base to alpine at its summit.[7] The temperature at the summit of Mount Kinabalu usually stands from −4 to 8 °C (25 to 46 °F) from December to January, and 3 to 12 °C (37 to 54 °F) from June to September. Due to the coldness of the mountain from December to January, there are a few occasions where frost and ice appear at the summit of Mount Kinabalu.[8][9] [10] Snow has been recorded three times in this area; in 1975, 1993 and 2022. [11] | Temperature ranges from -4°C to 12 °C . | dolly-7659 | en | 4,400 |
What are the other examples of Colour Revolutions? | null | Orange Revolution(in Ukraine between 2004 & 2005, Tulip Revolution(in Kyrgyzstan in 2005), Jasmine Revolution(in Tunisia in 2010-11) | dolly-7671 | en | 4,401 |
Which year was quantum computer demonstrated to be possible? | Over the years, experimentalists have constructed small-scale quantum computers using trapped ions and superconductors. In 1998, a two-qubit quantum computer demonstrated the feasibility of the technology, and subsequent experiments have increased the number of qubits and reduced error rates. In 2019, Google AI and NASA announced that they had achieved quantum supremacy with a 54-qubit machine, performing a computation that is impossible for any classical computer. However, the validity of this claim is still being actively researched. | 1998 | dolly-7683 | en | 4,402 |
3 Best TV series in the World | null | 1. Dexter
2. Breaking Bad
3. Prison Break | dolly-7687 | en | 4,403 |
Name four pork products I could expect to find in a delicatessen | null | Name four pork products I could expect to find in a delicatessen | dolly-7709 | en | 4,404 |
Who is the protagonist in CyberPunk 2077? | Cyberpunk 2077 is a 2020 action role-playing video game developed by CD Projekt Red and published by CD Projekt. Set in Night City, an open world set in the Cyberpunk universe, players assume the role of a customisable mercenary known as V, who can acquire skills in hacking and machinery with options for melee and ranged combat. The main story follows V's struggle as they deal with a mysterious cybernetic implant that threatens to overwrite their body with the personality and memories of a deceased celebrity only perceived by V; the two must work together to be separated and save V's life. | The main story revolves around the protagonist V, as they deal with a mysterious cybernetic implant that threatens to overwrite their body with another person's memories. | dolly-7743 | en | 4,405 |
Extract the names of the islands located on the Eastern Group of the Azores plateau from the text. Separate them with a comma. | These islands can be divided into three recognizable groups located on the Azores Plateau:
The Eastern Group (Grupo Oriental) of São Miguel, Santa Maria and Formigas Islets
The Central Group (Grupo Central) of Terceira, Graciosa, São Jorge, Pico and Faial
The Western Group (Grupo Ocidental) of Flores and Corvo. | São Miguel, Santa Maria and Formigas | dolly-7775 | en | 4,406 |
If playing golf, categorize which of the following parts of the course would be considered 'hazards', which would be 'safe', and which would be 'neither': The green, a sand trap, a stream, the fairway, the club house, and the tee box. | null | The green, fairway, and tee box would all be safe, while a sand trap and a stream would be hazards, and the club house would be neither. | dolly-7784 | en | 4,407 |
How do you play baseball? | Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding team, called the pitcher, throws a ball that a player on the batting team, called the batter, tries to hit with a bat. The objective of the offensive team (batting team) is to hit the ball into the field of play, away from the other team's players, allowing its players to run the bases, having them advance counter-clockwise around four bases to score what are called "runs". The objective of the defensive team (referred to as the fielding team) is to prevent batters from becoming runners, and to prevent runners' advance around the bases.[2] A run is scored when a runner legally advances around the bases in order and touches home plate (the place where the player started as a batter). | Baseball is played with two teams of nine players each that take turns batting and fielding. The objective of the offensive team is to hit the ball into the field of play away from the other team's players, allowing its players to run bases and having them advance around the bases and score runs. The objective of the defensive team is to prevent batters from becoming runners, and to prevent runners' advance around the bases. | dolly-7856 | en | 4,408 |
In what century was the airplane commercialized? | null | Commercial airplanes became available in the 20th century | dolly-7903 | en | 4,409 |
Given a reference text about David Allan Farrish, tell me how many games he played in the NHL. | David Allan Farrish (born August 1, 1956) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played 430 games in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the New York Rangers, Quebec Nordiques, and Toronto Maple Leafs between 1976 and 1984. He featured in the 1979 Stanley Cup Finals with the Rangers.
He also played in the American Hockey League and won the Eddie Shore Award as the league's best defenceman during the 1981–82 season.[1] After his playing career Farrish worked as a coach. | David Allan Farrish played 430 games in the NHL. | dolly-7927 | en | 4,410 |
What are the words of House Footly? | null | "Tread Lightly Here" | dolly-7949 | en | 4,411 |
What are the top 5 places to eat while visiting Milwaukee, Wisconsin? | null | Milwaukee is a great destination for foodies, it has some iconic eating places which are a must for any new visitor. 1. Kopps Custard: This places serves the best custard in tri-state region and a must have while in milwaukee. They also serve great burgers and sandwiches. 2. Collectivo Coffee - This is a local coffee shop situated on the Michigan Lake shore in an old pump house converted into a coffee shop. The ambiance, coffee, and food make it a great spot to relax and read a book. 3. Maders: This is probably the most famous restaurant of milwaukee serving authentic German food 4. Cafe Hollander: This is great place to taste different kinds of beers and their food is also very eclectic 5. Zaffiro's Pizza: If you are in the mood for some pizza don't forget to stop by Zaffiro's | dolly-7986 | en | 4,412 |
What is it like living in the Pacific Northwest? | null | The Pacific Northwest is comprised of U.S. states of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, and the Canadian province of British Columbia - and sometimes Alaska is included. The Pacific Northwest, also referred to as PNW, it a diverse area with mountains, the pacific ocean, lakes, islands, volcanoes, deserts and rainforests. It is one of the most diverse climates in the United States. People who live here love the outdoors and the beauty. | dolly-8013 | en | 4,413 |
What is a Security Information Event Management platform (SIEM)? | null | Security Information Event Management (pronounced SIM) is a combination of security information management (SIM) and security event management (SEM) technologies. It allows security operations teams to collect, parse, alert, and investigate security events. Modern SIEMs can leverage machine learning and SOAR capabilities to offer more significant detection and response capabilities. | dolly-8045 | en | 4,414 |
Extract the reason why the check clearing system was created | Because some banks refused to clear checks from certain other banks during times of economic uncertainty, a check-clearing system was created in the Federal Reserve System. It is briefly described in The Federal Reserve System—Purposes and Functions as follows:[29]
By creating the Federal Reserve System, Congress intended to eliminate the severe financial crises that had periodically swept the nation, especially the sort of financial panic that occurred in 1907. During that episode, payments were disrupted throughout the country because many banks and clearinghouses refused to clear checks drawn on certain other banks, a practice that contributed to the failure of otherwise solvent banks. To address these problems, Congress gave the Federal Reserve System the authority to establish a nationwide check-clearing system. The System, then, was to provide not only an elastic currency—that is, a currency that would expand or shrink in amount as economic conditions warranted—but also an efficient and equitable check-collection system. | During financial crises in early 20th century, some banks refused to clear checks drawn on certain other banks, a practice that contributed to the failure of otherwise solvent banks, which ultimately led to severe crises that swept the nation, therefore Congress gave the Federal Reserve System the authority to establish a nationwide check-clearing system to address such systematic issues. | dolly-8091 | en | 4,415 |
How to bake the perfect flourless cheesecake? | null | 1. Assemble the following ingredients: 500 gm quark, mascarpone cheese 250gm (alternatively cream cheese 420gm and heavy cream 200gm), 3 eggs, 2 egg yolks, 50gm sugar, lemon juice 10gm (2 teaspoons). Make sure that all ingredients are at room temperature.
2. Crack the eggs and whisk them until they form a smooth mixture. Don't overdo it.
3. In a mixing bowl, add the quark, mascarpone cheese and sugar. Mix till it is well incorporated. Then gradually add the whisked eggs.
4. Whisk the mixture while adding the lemon juice. You may add a flavouring essence of your choice, such as vanilla. Blend everything well.
5. Preheat the oven at 210 degree Celsius.
6. Apply butter on the inner sides and bottom of the baking tin and stick butter paper or baking paper to cover all inner surfaces.
7. Pour the batter prepared in step 4 into the baking tin and put the tin in the preheated oven
8. Bake for 20-25 minutes until the top of the cheesecake is burnt to a shade of brown.
9. Remove the baking tin from the oven and let it cool down in open air
10. Once cooled, chill the cheesecake in the fridge overnight for then best taste and texture. However it can also be enjoyed without refrigerating. | dolly-8135 | en | 4,416 |
What is the formal definition of a large language model? | Though the term large language model has no formal definition, it often refers to deep learning models having a parameter count on the order of billions or more.[2] LLMs are general purpose models which excel at a wide range of tasks, as opposed to being trained for one specific task (such as sentiment analysis, named entity recognition, or mathematical reasoning).[1][3] The skill with which they accomplish tasks, and the range of tasks at which they are capable, seems to be a function of the amount of resources (data, parameter-size, computing power) devoted to them, in a way that is not dependent on additional breakthroughs in design.[4]
Though trained on simple tasks along the lines of predicting the next word in a sentence, neural language models with sufficient training and parameter counts are found to capture much of the syntax and semantics of human language. In addition, large language models demonstrate considerable general knowledge about the world, and are able to "memorize" a great quantity of facts during training.[1] | The term large language model (LLM) does not have a formal definition. However, it often refers to deep learning models having a parameter count on the order of billions or more. | dolly-8262 | en | 4,417 |
Identify which of the following are episode titles from "The X-Files": The Pine Bluff Variant, My Teacher is an Alien, Memento Mori, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Millennium, Arcadia, The Matrix | null | The Pine Bluff Variant, Memento Mori, Millennium, Arcadia | dolly-8297 | en | 4,418 |
Extract the different types of enemies Aloy has to fight with and separate them with commas. | Horizon Zero Dawn is an action role-playing game played from a third-person view. Players take control of Aloy, a hunter who ventures through a post-apocalyptic land ruled by robotic creatures. Aloy can kill enemies in a variety of ways – shooting them with arrows, setting traps such as tripwires using the Tripcaster, using explosives, and a spear. Machine components, including electricity and the metal they are composed of, are vital to Aloy's survival; she can loot their remains for crafting resources. Ammo, resource satchels, pouches, quivers, resistance, antidotes, health potions, and traps can all be crafted. Weapons have modification slots for dealing more damage. Aloy wears a Focus, a small head piece that scans machines to determine their susceptibilities, identify their location, their level, and the nature of loot they will drop. One machine, the Stalker, can enable cloaking technology to avert the gaze of Aloy's Focus scan. Machines attack with defensive and offensive measures, and in either case react to a perceived threat by charging at it with brute force or projectiles. Exhibiting the behaviour of wild animals, some machines are inclined to move in herds, and others, with the ability to fly, do so in flocks. Unless hacked with the Override Tool, or sufficiently hit with corruption arrows, machines do not exert aggressive force against each other. Aloy also engages in battle with human enemies, such as bandits and the Eclipse cult. | Machines, humans (like bandits and the Eclipse cult) | dolly-8298 | en | 4,419 |
Categorize each of the following as reptiles, vegetables or body parts: elbow, iguana, toe, lettuce, broccoli, turtle, shin, eye, okra, alligator, ear, finger, python, anaconda, and cabbage. | null | The reptiles are: iguana, turtle, alligator, python, and anaconda; the vegetables are: lettuce, broccoli, okra, and cabbage; the body parts are: toe, shin, eye, ear and finger. | dolly-8300 | en | 4,420 |
Why should people drive cars with manual transmissions? | null | People should drive cars with manual transmissions because it forces drivers to be more engaged while driving and lowers the incidence of distracted driving, making it the safest choice overall.
Environmental concerns about fossil fuels aside, one of the biggest issues with driving today is distracted driving. With improvements in cruise control technology and other driver assistance functions like lane keep assist, cars are taking over more of the driving process than ever before. While the intent is to make it safer for drivers, it also has the unintended consequence of making easier for drivers to be distracted.
Cars with manual transmissions not only force greater engagement and focus, but they are also either incompatible with, or only compatible with lesser versions of, certain driver assistance features like adaptive cruise control because lowering the speed while not being able to change the gear (which is manual) could cause the car to stall.
Paradoxically, by increasing the required inputs and decreasing the number of driver assistance features, driving a manual transmission car is safest. | dolly-8311 | en | 4,421 |
Who is the greatest ever soccer player? | null | Cristiano Ronaldo | dolly-8400 | en | 4,422 |
Classify each team as a baseball, hockey, soccer, football, or basketball team: New York Yankees, Florida Panthers, Manchester United, Philadelphia 76ers, Milwaukee Bucks, Seattle Seahawks, Texas Rangers, Dallas Cowboys, Philadelphia Union | null | New York Yankees: Baseball
Florida Panthers: Hockey
Manchester United: Soccer
Philadelphia 76ers: Basketball
Milwaukee Bucks: Basketball
Seattle Seahawks: Football
Texas Rangers: Baseball
Dallas Cowboys: Football
Philadelphia Union: Soccer | dolly-8445 | en | 4,423 |
Identify which animal species is alive or extinct: Hyaenodon, Humphead Wrasse | null | Hyaenodon is extinct, Humphead Wrasse is alive. | dolly-8450 | en | 4,424 |
Classify each of the following as Toy or Tool: Garden Shovel, Golf Club, Baseball Bat, Hammer, Saw. | null | A garden shovel is a tool.
A golf Club is a toy.
A baseball bat is a toy.
A hammer is a tool.
A saw is a tool. | dolly-8523 | en | 4,425 |
What is the role of whistleblowers in a democratic market economy? | null | Whistleblowers play an important role in a democratic market economy. With highly complex structured contracts, specifically in the financial sector, there’s asymmetric information due to limited access. Shareholders cannot adequately monitor the behavior of financial traders who can take risks, which when materialized shareholders will not be able to repay. There’s also a lack of efficient monitoring on part of the regulators/government agencies due to resource constraints or revolving doors among the staff working at these financial institutions and regulatory agencies. Thus, whistleblowers play a critical role in exposing potential fraud within their organizations. | dolly-8539 | en | 4,426 |
What is the difference between the Netherlands and Holland? | null | The two are often used interchangeably to refer to the country of the Netherlands. They are not the same however. The Netherlands is a country in Western Europe. Holland is a region in the Netherlands with the majority of the population, roughly consisting of the two provinces North Holland and South Holland. | dolly-8546 | en | 4,427 |
Tell me which muscle the following exercises help build: bench press, dips, dumbbell curls, deadlift, and squat. | null | Bench press and dips exercises build muscles around chest and triceps areas. Dumbbell curls target biceps. Deadlifts target both back and core muscles as well as your glutes and hamstrings. Finally, squats target quads, hamstrings, glutes and core muscles. | dolly-8592 | en | 4,428 |
What is AWS ECS? | null | Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is a highly scalable, high performance container management service that supports Docker containers and allows you to easily run applications on a managed cluster of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. | dolly-8614 | en | 4,429 |
Which of the following are planets? Sun, Mars, Moon, Pluto, Jupiter, Neptune | null | The planets in that list are Mars, Jupiter and Neptune. | dolly-8617 | en | 4,430 |
Are you going for a walk today? | null | I'll go for a walk today, the weather is finally perfect! I've been staying indoors lately due to rain, but with this sun shining, I can't stay indoors any longer! | dolly-8691 | en | 4,431 |
What is the difference between an asset and a liability. | null | The difference between an asset and a liability is that an asset generally provides value over the long term while a liability is an expense or debt owed. | dolly-8697 | en | 4,432 |
Which NFL team has the most Super Bowl championship wins? | null | The Pittsburgh Steelers and the New England Patriots are tied for the most Super Bowl championship wins. Both teams have won 6 Super Bowl championships. The Steelers were the first team to achieve this in 2008, while the Patriots earned their sixth championship win in 2018. | dolly-8734 | en | 4,433 |
Why did the cow jump over the moon? | null | The cow wanted to jump to the moon because it had run out of milk for its calf. The calf was crying day and night because of how hungry it was. The mother cow looked up at the night sky, saw the milky-colored moon in the sky, and thought if it jumped to the moon, its udders would be full again. It practiced over and over, jumping as high as it could. Once it was finally ready that it jumped over the moon. The courage that it gained filled the udders with milk once again. | dolly-8755 | en | 4,434 |
Who is using Spark in production? | null | As of 2016, surveys show that more than 1000 organizations are using Spark in production. Some of them are listed on the Powered By page and at the Spark Summit. | dolly-8761 | en | 4,435 |
Does Spark support JavaScript? | null | Spark does not have native built-in support for JavaScript, but it is possible to use JavaScript with Spark through 3rd party libraries. | dolly-8805 | en | 4,436 |
My trophy does not fit my suitcase because it is to big. I need to travel. What could I do? | null | - Get a bigger suitcase
- Don't bring your trophy
- Send the trophy in a box | dolly-8826 | en | 4,437 |
Who brews Shiner Bock beer? | Spoetzl Brewery (originally Shiner Brewing Association) is a brewery located in Shiner, Texas, United States. It produces a diverse line of Shiner beers, including their flagship Shiner Bock, a dark lager that is now distributed throughout the US. The brewery is owned by the Gambrinus Company, a family-owned company based in San Antonio, which also owns Trumer Brewery in Berkeley, California. | Spoetzl Brewery (originally Shiner Brewing Association) is a brewery located in Shiner, Texas, United States. It produces a diverse line of Shiner beers, including their flagship Shiner Bock, a dark lager that is distributed throughout the US. | dolly-8908 | en | 4,438 |
What year did humankind walk on the moon? | null | 1969 | dolly-8924 | en | 4,439 |
The Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity was given to whom? | null | Greta Thunberg | dolly-8945 | en | 4,440 |
What is the first name of Stephen Curry? | Wardell Stephen Curry II (/ˈstɛfən/ STEF-ən; born March 14, 1988)[1] is an American professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Widely regarded as one of the greatest basketball players of all time, and as the greatest shooter in NBA history,[2] Curry is credited with revolutionizing the sport by inspiring teams and players to take more three-point shots.[3][4][5] A nine-time NBA All-Star and eight-time All-NBA selection, including four times on the first team, he has been named the NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP) twice, won four NBA championships, and received an NBA Finals MVP Award and an NBA All-Star Game MVP Award. | Wardell is the first name of Stephen Curry, who is an American professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors. It is knowns as one of the greatest basketball players of all time. | dolly-8950 | en | 4,441 |
What are some ways to get promoted at your job? | null | To get promoted at work you have to first be succeeding at your current role, make sure you are on time, have a good attitude, and are completing the tasks assigned to you. To get promoted you should take on more responsibilities- start a side project, help your teammates with challenges, spearhead a new initiative, etc. | dolly-9019 | en | 4,442 |
What are the top graph databases? | null | 1. Neo4j
2. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB
3. Virtuoso
4. ArangoDB
5. Amazon Neptune | dolly-9057 | en | 4,443 |
How often should I walk my adult dog? | null | Depending on the age of your dog, you may find that your dog likes to take walks 3-6 times a day. To make sure your adult dog pees and poops regularly during the day, your dog would appreciate a walk at least every 6 hours. Walks usually last around 15 minutes but the longer the walk the better. | dolly-9082 | en | 4,444 |
What does CMWCs stand for? | The Cycle Messenger World Championships, or CMWCs, are an annual urban cycling competition whereby cycle messengers and cycling enthusiasts showcase their skills in an array of events, many of which simulate everyday tasks for a cycle messenger. Each year, the CMWCs are held in a different city around the world, with each host city designing its own unique course. The highlight of the CMWCs is the main race in which cyclists are given manifests and must pickup and deliver items to various locations around the host city as quickly and efficiently as possible. The total number of pickups and deliveries, or "drop offs" is unknown to the messengers before the race, but has been known to reach up to 100 stops and usually takes between 3–4 hours to complete. The cyclist who completes all of the assigned deliveries in the least amount of time wins the race. In addition to the main race there are also several side events which have become increasingly popular over the past few years. These events change yearly depending on the discretion of the host city but usually include backward circles, bike polo, bunnyhop, cargo race, longest skid, sprints, and trackstand. | The Cycle Messenger World Championships | dolly-9083 | en | 4,445 |
Give me the list of 'The Lord of the Rings' movie series by Peter Jackson director. Ordered chronologically by the events happening in the series. | null | Here is the list of 'The Lord of the Rings' movie series, ordered chronologically:
1. An Unexpected Journey
2. The Desolation of Smaug
3. The Battle of the Five Armies
4. The Fellowship of the Ring
5. The Two Towers
6. The Return of the King | dolly-9114 | en | 4,446 |
How many quarters do you need to have three dollars? | null | There are 4 quarters in a dollar, so you need 12 quarters total to make 3 dollars | dolly-9137 | en | 4,447 |
Please summarize Sinclair's argument in this paragraph for why longer lifespans will not lead to overpopulation. | A review for Boston Magazine called Sinclair “one of science’s most controversial figures” and said many in the scientific community were skeptical of claims he made about human longevity. University of Alabama biology professor Steven N. Austad said, “David is a good friend, but I do think he’s been guilty of making excessive claims.”[3] Writing in Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics,[4] Charles Brenner summarized that Lifespan has "become an influential source of misinformation on longevity, featuring counterfactual claims about longevity genes being conserved between yeast and humans, the existence of supposed activators of these genes, and claimed successful age reversal in mice based on partial reprogramming." In a 2019 interview, Sinclair dismissed the idea that longer lifespans could lead to overpopulation. "Population growth will level off within the next couple of decades, and healthier people are having fewer children," Sinclair said. "The global population is already stabilizing, and in many advanced countries going down, so people’s fear that the world will be overpopulated with frail old people is completely wrong."[5] | Based on this paragraph, Sinclair is not concerned with the risk of overpopulation even if lifespans become longer. His rationale is the healthier people are having fewer children and so the population is going down in many advanced countries. | dolly-9145 | en | 4,448 |
what method of commuting works best to get from Marin County to downtown San Francisco? | null | There are many ways to get from Marin County to downtown San Francisco. You can drive a car, which can be fast in the morning, taking, say, 45 minutes or less if you leave before 8am. Driving home, however, can take up to an hour and a half or more depending on traffic.
You can take a bus, which generally takes about an hour and fifteen minutes either way. You can also take a bicycle to a bus stop, and the bus will carry your bike, but the spaces for bikes can fill up before you get on the bus, so check the route before trying this method.
Ferries that take you from Larkspur to the Ferry Building are also very popular. You can drive to the ferry landing, park your car, and get on the ferry to downtown San Francisco. When the weather is nice, this can be a wonderful way to either unwind or catch up on work. Ferries can be subject to weather delays and cancellations, so check the weather before trying this method.
Finally, you can take a bicycle or even run all the way in to downtown San Francisco from Marin County. Bicycling is generally an hour to hour and a half round trip, but again check the weather and your fitness level before committing to this. And most of all, make sure you eat enough calories during the day to fuel that ride home! There are some intrepid souls who have taken to the water and swam from Cavallo Point to Aquatic Park, which takes a lot of practice and planning.
There are many ways to commute to San Francisco from Marin, so feel free to mix and match and try new methods to keep yourself happy, fit, and motivated for that awesome job in the city! | dolly-9216 | en | 4,449 |
If I wanted a play games with my computer, what components should I pay attention to? | null | To play games with your PC, you should get a good graphics processor, a screen with sufficient space and refresh rate, and audio acoustics to match your taste, either speakers or a good headset. If you want to play team sports that have chat, you might want to consider a headset with a microphone. | dolly-9243 | en | 4,450 |
What is primary innovation that a piano delivered over a harpsichord? | null | Since a harpsichord plucks the strings the same way each time in response to a keystroke, it delivers the same loudness for each note. A piano on the other hand uses padded hammers to strike the strings, and allows the musician to control each strike in such a way that they have control over the dynamics of each note. This control allows pianists to express a broad range of emotions by adjusting the loudness and softness according to the feelings they want to convey to the listener. | dolly-9276 | en | 4,451 |
Why do people like to drink coffee in the morning? | null | Coffee is very popular to drink in the morning. It contains caffeine and caffeine wakes you up. In addition drinking coffee is a social thing and makes people feel more connected. Also some people think coffee is healthy. You can become addicted to coffee. | dolly-9320 | en | 4,452 |
Tell me if any of these countries have won the football world cup: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Côte d'Ivoire, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Congo (Congo-Brazzaville), Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czechia (Czech Republic), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Holy See, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar (formerly Burma), Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Korea, North Macedonia, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Palestine State, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, South Sudan, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe, England | null | Country,Won football Worldcup?
Albania,No
Algeria,No
Andorra,No
Angola,No
Antigua and Barbuda,No
Argentina,Yes
Armenia,No
Australia,No
Austria,No
Azerbaijan,No
Bahamas,No
Bahrain,No
Bangladesh,No
Barbados,No
Belarus,No
Belgium,No
Belize,No
Benin,No
Bhutan,No
Bolivia,No
Bosnia and Herzegovina,No
Botswana,No
Brazil,Yes
Brunei,No
Bulgaria,No
Burkina Faso,No
Burundi,No
Côte d'Ivoire,No
Cabo Verde,No
Cambodia,No
Cameroon,No
Canada,No
Central African Republic,No
Chad,No
Chile,No
China,No
Colombia,No
Comoros,No
Congo (Congo-Brazzaville),No
Costa Rica,No
Croatia,No
Cuba,No
Cyprus,No
Czechia (Czech Republic),No
Democratic Republic of the Congo,No
Denmark,No
Djibouti,No
Dominica,No
Dominican Republic,No
Ecuador,No
Egypt,No
El Salvador,No
Equatorial Guinea,No
Eritrea,No
Estonia,No
Eswatini ,No
Ethiopia,No
Fiji,No
Finland,No
France,Yes
Gabon,No
Gambia,No
Georgia,No
Germany,Yes
Ghana,No
Greece,No
Grenada,No
Guatemala,No
Guinea,No
Guinea-Bissau,No
Guyana,No
Haiti,No
Holy See,No
Honduras,No
Hungary,No
Iceland,No
India,No
Indonesia,No
Iran,No
Iraq,No
Ireland,No
Israel,No
Italy,Yes
Jamaica,No
Japan,No
Jordan,No
Kazakhstan,No
Kenya,No
Kiribati,No
Kuwait,No
Kyrgyzstan,No
Laos,No
Latvia,No
Lebanon,No
Lesotho,No
Liberia,No
Libya,No
Liechtenstein,No
Lithuania,No
Luxembourg,No
Madagascar,No
Malawi,No
Malaysia,No
Maldives,No
Mali,No
Malta,No
Marshall Islands,No
Mauritania,No
Mauritius,No
Mexico,No
Micronesia,No
Moldova,No
Monaco,No
Mongolia,No
Montenegro,No
Morocco,No
Mozambique,No
Myanmar (formerly Burma),No
Namibia,No
Nauru,No
Nepal,No
Netherlands,No
New Zealand,No
Nicaragua,No
Niger,No
Nigeria,No
North Korea,No
North Macedonia,No
Norway,No
Oman,No
Pakistan,No
Palau,No
Palestine State,No
Panama,No
Papua New Guinea,No
Paraguay,No
Peru,No
Philippines,No
Poland,No
Portugal,No
Qatar,No
Romania,No
Russia,No
Rwanda,No
Saint Kitts and Nevis,No
Saint Lucia,No
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines,No
Samoa,No
San Marino,No
Sao Tome and Principe,No
Saudi Arabia,No
Senegal,No
Serbia,No
Seychelles,No
Sierra Leone,No
Singapore,No
Slovakia,No
Slovenia,No
Solomon Islands,No
Somalia,No
South Africa,No
South Korea,No
South Sudan,No
Spain,Yes
Sri Lanka,No
Sudan,No
Suriname,No
Sweden,No
Switzerland,No
Syria,No
Tajikistan,No
Tanzania,No
Thailand,No
Timor-Leste,No
Togo,No
Tonga,No
Trinidad and Tobago,No
Tunisia,No
Turkey,No
Turkmenistan,No
Tuvalu,No
Uganda,No
Ukraine,No
United Arab Emirates,No
United Kingdom,Yes
United States of America,No
Uruguay,Yes
Uzbekistan,No
Vanuatu,No
Venezuela,No
Vietnam,No
Yemen,No
Zambia,No
Zimbabwe,No
England,Yes | dolly-9324 | en | 4,453 |
Where is Peloton Interactive based? | Peloton Interactive, Inc. is an American exercise equipment and media company based in New York City. The company's products are stationary bicycles, treadmills, and indoor rowers equipped with Internet-connected touch screens that stream live and on-demand fitness classes through a subscription service. The equipment includes built-in sensors that track metrics such as power output, providing users with real-time feedback on their performance and leaderboard rankings to compete with other users. | Peloton Interactive is based in New York City, NY, US. They are an American exercise and media company. Their products include stationary spin bicycles, treadmills, and rowers. Their products feature internet-connected touch screens to stream live and on-demand fitness classes. Sensors in the equipment track metrics such as power, cadence, and resistance to provide real-time feedback to the user. Users must subscribe to Peloton Interactive services to use classes on the equipment. | dolly-9334 | en | 4,454 |
given this article about Enrico Silvestrin, what year did he get evicted from Celebrity Big Brother? | Enrico Silvestrin (born 30 May 1972) is an Italian actor, television and radio presenter and musician.
Life and career
Born in Rome, after a supporting role in Michele Placido's Close Friends, in 1994 Silvestrin started working as a VJ on MTV Europe, and later on MTV Italy. In 2000, he refused the Gabriele Muccino's offer of starring in The Last Kiss preferring a role in the Italia 1 sitcom Via Zanardi 33, which eventually turned to be a flop.[1]
In 2005 Silvestrin left MTV as to focus on his acting career. He then appeared in a number of films and TV-series, getting a personal success with the role of Alessandro Berti in the Canale 5 crime series Distretto di Polizia. In 2007 he presented the Festivalbar.[1][2] In 2018 he competed in Grande Fratello VIP, the Italian adaptation of Celebrity Big Brother. He was the third contestant to be evicted on day 22.
Silvestrin is also active as a musician. He has been part of the musical groups Agony in Cage, Tempus Fugit, Ilor and Silv3man.[2][3] He is nephew on his mother's side of actor and playwright Peppino De Filippo.[4] | 2018 | dolly-9347 | en | 4,455 |
What 5-letter word spelt in all capital letters can be read the exact same upside down? | null | SWIMS | dolly-9382 | en | 4,456 |
Extract a list of all the administrative departments and function rooms found in the King's Building based on this paragraph. | The King's Building is a Grade I listed building that forms part of the Strand Campus of King's College London in the United Kingdom. Originally named the College Building, the King's Building was designed by Sir Robert Smirke in the course of the College's foundation in 1829.[1] As the founding building, it was built between 1829 and 1831 on land granted to King's College by the Government to complete the riverside frontage of Somerset House.
There are today a total of eight floors in the King's Building: Basement level, Ground level, Levels 1 to 4, Level 4U and Level 6.[2] The King's Building houses a number of administrative departments (Estates & Facilities Offices, Admissions Office, Accommodation and Cashiers' Office), lecture theatres (most notably the Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre and Anatomy Lecture Theatre), the College Chapel, the Great Hall, various function rooms (Old Council Room, Committee Room, River Room, Somerset Room, St David's Room), study rooms and a catering outlet.[3] | The administrative departments are Estates & Facilities Offices, Admissions Office, Accommodation and Cashiers' Office. The function rooms are Old Council Room, Committee Room, River Room, Somerset Room and St David's Room | dolly-9505 | en | 4,457 |
Who was Thomas Ransom | Thomas Harvey Ransom (August 8, 1870 – June 3, 1946) was an American football and basketball coach and a doctor. | Thomas Harvey Ransom (August 8, 1870 – June 3, 1946) was an American football and basketball coach and a doctor. | dolly-9526 | en | 4,458 |
How is Praveen Babi remembered in Indian pop culture reference? | Mahesh Bhatt, Babi's former partner, wrote and directed Arth (1982), a supposedly semi-autobiographical film about his relationship with Babi, and wrote and produced Woh Lamhe (2006) directed by his nephew Mohit Suri, based on his recollection and interpretation of his relationship with Babi and without any inputs from her.[46]
Designer Manish Malhotra said: "Parveen Babi brought minimalism into fashion. She was always impeccable, not overdoing it even once."[47] | Praveen Babi was a fashion icon of India. She was always dressed to impress and brought minimalism into fashion. Her ex-boyfriend made a couple of movies about his relationship with her in the movies Arth and Woh Lamhe. | dolly-9528 | en | 4,459 |
Which is a species of fish? Herring or Hearing | null | Herring | dolly-9541 | en | 4,460 |
What NBA team has the most championships in the modern era? The modern era is defined as post NBA/ABA league merger, 24 second clock and three-point basket. | null | The NBA professional basketball team with the most modern championships are the Los Angeles Lakers with 11 in 1980, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1988, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2009, 2010, 2020. | dolly-9577 | en | 4,461 |
Give me a bulleted list of the seven most recent Harvard University presidents | null | * Lawrence S. Bacow (2018 - present)
* Drew Gilpin Faust (2007 - 2018)
* Lawrence H. Summers (2001 - 2007)
* Neil L. Rudenstine (1991 - 2001)
* Derek Bok (2006 - 2007) (interim, also served 1971-1991)
* Nathan Marsh Pusey (1953-1971)
* James Bryant Conant (1933-1953) | dolly-9579 | en | 4,462 |
What would be the summary of the story of Oedipus, which serves as the basis for the psychoanalytic theory of the Oedipus complex? | The story of Oedipus is the subject of Sophocles' tragedy Oedipus Rex, which is followed in the narrative sequence by Oedipus at Colonus and then Antigone. Together, these plays make up Sophocles' three Theban plays. Oedipus represents two enduring themes of Greek myth and drama: the flawed nature of humanity and an individual's role in the course of destiny in a harsh universe.
In the best-known version of the myth, Oedipus was born to King Laius and Queen Jocasta of Thebes. Laius wished to thwart the prophecy, so he sent a shepherd-servant to leave Oedipus to die on a mountainside. However, the shepherd took pity on the baby and passed him to another shepherd who gave Oedipus to King Polybus and Queen Merope to raise as their own. Oedipus learned from the oracle at Delphi of the prophecy that he would end up killing his father and marrying his mother but, unaware of his true parentage, believed he was fated to murder Polybus and marry Merope, so left for Thebes. On his way, he met an older man and killed him in a quarrel. Continuing on to Thebes, he found that the king of the city (Laius) had recently been killed and that the city was at the mercy of the Sphinx. Oedipus answered the monster's riddle correctly, defeating it and winning the throne of the dead king – and the hand in marriage of the king's widow, who was also (unbeknownst to him) his mother Jocasta.
Detail of ancient fresco in which Oedipus solves the riddle of the Sphinx. Egyptian Museum, 2nd c. CE
Years later, to end a plague on Thebes, Oedipus searched to find who had killed Laius and discovered that he himself was responsible. Jocasta, upon realizing that she had married her own son, hanged herself. Oedipus then seized two pins from her dress and blinded himself with them.
The legend of Oedipus has been retold in many versions and was used by Sigmund Freud to name and give mythic precedent to the Oedipus complex. | Oedipus killed his father and got married to his mother, as announced by the prophecy of the Oracle of Delphi. | dolly-9587 | en | 4,463 |
What is some advice for planning an Alaskan vacation? | null | First, you need to determine what are your goals for visiting Alaska. Do you enjoy summer activities or winter activities? Do you want to see the Northern Lights or would you rather vacation under the Midnight Sun? Once you have decided when to go, you can build your itinerary around these desired activities. It's important to note that if you want to work within a budget, it's more expensive during the summer. Plane tickets, hotels, and car rentals will be pricey and oftentimes harder to reserve. On the other hand, it will be cheaper to visit Alaska in the winter, as you will have more hotel options available to you, but fewer flight options, and you will need to have winter driving experience if you rent a car.
In the summertime, you will get to experience the state in full bloom -- pun intended. Because Alaska gets more direct sunlight during this time of year, everything grows big and fast. The best months for a summertime visit are late May, June, and July. The further north you go, the more sunlight you will have, with 24 hours of full sun in Utqiagvik (formerly known as Barrow). There are plenty of places to go hiking, fishing, camping, and hunting. Don't forget to bring bug spray, as the mosquitoes are huge and plentiful; you'll also likely encounter "no-see-ums" which are tiny biting midges that can swarm you. In Anchorage, the biggest city, you can rent a bicycle to ride the hundreds of miles of trails within the municipality. Keep in mind that despite the extra sun exposure, you'll likely encounter cold and rainy weather, so bring a rain jacket.
In the wintertime, you will have the opportunity to see the Northern Lights. The further north you are, the chances are higher that you will see them. When it's very cold and clear out, and if you're away from city light pollution, you're almost guaranteed to see a beautiful display in the night sky. While you might not have much success camping or fishing, you can still do other activities like skiing and snowboarding at the world-famous Alyeska resort, ice skating on many public-use ponds and lakes, and perhaps catch the ceremonial start of the Iditarod dog race in February. Don't forget to bring lots of warm clothes and to layer up from head-to-toe. Average December temperatures across Alaska vary from a low of 27F in Juneau to -20F in Tok, but it isn't unusual for temperatures to drop much, much further.
Many people don't realize that Alaska is a very, very big state. Don't try to cram too many activities into a short amount of time and give yourself plenty of time to travel to your intended destinations. There most reliable transportation is either a car or plane; there is not a well-developed rail system nor other public transport system. Some car rental company won't let you drive to certain areas because of inherent highway dangers, such as unpaved, gravel roads, isolation, and animal dangers. You'll encounter delays on roads in the summer due to road construction and delays in the winter due to accidents, ice, and blizzards.
No matter what time of year you go, there will be plenty to see and do in Alaska. Just remember to plan ahead, budget accordingly, dress appropriately for the weather, and build some flexibility into your itinerary to accommodate for delays or unexpected changes. | dolly-9601 | en | 4,464 |
Why do people like coffee? | null | Many people all over the world rely on the caffeine in coffee to fully "wake up" in the morning. Coffee, a plant, that was utilized by nomadic tribes to focus during prayer, is now a daily necessity for millions of people around the world. Coffee beans were not roasted until the 1400s. Today, we see many variations of coffee-based beverages all over the world, ranging from espresso shots, made from finely grained coffee beans compressed with steaming water, to Starbuck's frappunicco: a line of blended iced drinks. The modernization of coffee has come to represent different cultures all over the world. | dolly-9605 | en | 4,465 |
What's the difference between Texas Hold'em and Poker? | null | Poker is a class of gambling card games, which you can play according to different rulesets. Texas Hold'em is one of those rulesets. In Texas Hold'em players are first dealt two secret cards each, followed by a betting round, then three open, public cards are dealt (the flop), with a subsequent betting round. The flop is followed by the turn, one more public card, and then a betting round. The turn is followed by the river, the final public card. A last betting round follows, and if more than one player is still in the hand at the end, the winner of that round is determined.
The last player who bet on the river reveals his two secret cards, and makes the best poker hand out of the two secret cards and five public cards. Any other player who is still in the game may then reveal his two secret cards and make a better poker hand with the seven cards total if possible. | dolly-9648 | en | 4,466 |
Extract the pros and cons of different speech synthesis technologies. | The most important qualities of a speech synthesis system are naturalness and intelligibility.[28] Naturalness describes how closely the output sounds like human speech, while intelligibility is the ease with which the output is understood. The ideal speech synthesizer is both natural and intelligible. Speech synthesis systems usually try to maximize both characteristics.
The two primary technologies generating synthetic speech waveforms are concatenative synthesis and formant synthesis. Each technology has strengths and weaknesses, and the intended uses of a synthesis system will typically determine which approach is used.
Concatenation synthesis
Main article: Concatenative synthesis
Concatenative synthesis is based on the concatenation (stringing together) of segments of recorded speech. Generally, concatenative synthesis produces the most natural-sounding synthesized speech. However, differences between natural variations in speech and the nature of the automated techniques for segmenting the waveforms sometimes result in audible glitches in the output. There are three main sub-types of concatenative synthesis.
Unit selection synthesis
Unit selection synthesis uses large databases of recorded speech. During database creation, each recorded utterance is segmented into some or all of the following: individual phones, diphones, half-phones, syllables, morphemes, words, phrases, and sentences. Typically, the division into segments is done using a specially modified speech recognizer set to a "forced alignment" mode with some manual correction afterward, using visual representations such as the waveform and spectrogram.[29] An index of the units in the speech database is then created based on the segmentation and acoustic parameters like the fundamental frequency (pitch), duration, position in the syllable, and neighboring phones. At run time, the desired target utterance is created by determining the best chain of candidate units from the database (unit selection). This process is typically achieved using a specially weighted decision tree.
Unit selection provides the greatest naturalness, because it applies only a small amount of digital signal processing (DSP) to the recorded speech. DSP often makes recorded speech sound less natural, although some systems use a small amount of signal processing at the point of concatenation to smooth the waveform. The output from the best unit-selection systems is often indistinguishable from real human voices, especially in contexts for which the TTS system has been tuned. However, maximum naturalness typically require unit-selection speech databases to be very large, in some systems ranging into the gigabytes of recorded data, representing dozens of hours of speech.[30] Also, unit selection algorithms have been known to select segments from a place that results in less than ideal synthesis (e.g. minor words become unclear) even when a better choice exists in the database.[31] Recently, researchers have proposed various automated methods to detect unnatural segments in unit-selection speech synthesis systems.[32]
Diphone synthesis
Diphone synthesis uses a minimal speech database containing all the diphones (sound-to-sound transitions) occurring in a language. The number of diphones depends on the phonotactics of the language: for example, Spanish has about 800 diphones, and German about 2500. In diphone synthesis, only one example of each diphone is contained in the speech database. At runtime, the target prosody of a sentence is superimposed on these minimal units by means of digital signal processing techniques such as linear predictive coding, PSOLA[33] or MBROLA.[34] or more recent techniques such as pitch modification in the source domain using discrete cosine transform.[35] Diphone synthesis suffers from the sonic glitches of concatenative synthesis and the robotic-sounding nature of formant synthesis, and has few of the advantages of either approach other than small size. As such, its use in commercial applications is declining,[citation needed] although it continues to be used in research because there are a number of freely available software implementations. An early example of Diphone synthesis is a teaching robot, Leachim, that was invented by Michael J. Freeman.[36] Leachim contained information regarding class curricular and certain biographical information about the students whom it was programmed to teach.[37] It was tested in a fourth grade classroom in the Bronx, New York.[38][39]
Domain-specific synthesis
Domain-specific synthesis concatenates prerecorded words and phrases to create complete utterances. It is used in applications where the variety of texts the system will output is limited to a particular domain, like transit schedule announcements or weather reports.[40] The technology is very simple to implement, and has been in commercial use for a long time, in devices like talking clocks and calculators. The level of naturalness of these systems can be very high because the variety of sentence types is limited, and they closely match the prosody and intonation of the original recordings.[citation needed]
Because these systems are limited by the words and phrases in their databases, they are not general-purpose and can only synthesize the combinations of words and phrases with which they have been preprogrammed. The blending of words within naturally spoken language however can still cause problems unless the many variations are taken into account. For example, in non-rhotic dialects of English the "r" in words like "clear" /ˈklɪə/ is usually only pronounced when the following word has a vowel as its first letter (e.g. "clear out" is realized as /ˌklɪəɹˈʌʊt/). Likewise in French, many final consonants become no longer silent if followed by a word that begins with a vowel, an effect called liaison. This alternation cannot be reproduced by a simple word-concatenation system, which would require additional complexity to be context-sensitive.
Formant synthesis
Formant synthesis does not use human speech samples at runtime. Instead, the synthesized speech output is created using additive synthesis and an acoustic model (physical modelling synthesis).[41] Parameters such as fundamental frequency, voicing, and noise levels are varied over time to create a waveform of artificial speech. This method is sometimes called rules-based synthesis; however, many concatenative systems also have rules-based components. Many systems based on formant synthesis technology generate artificial, robotic-sounding speech that would never be mistaken for human speech. However, maximum naturalness is not always the goal of a speech synthesis system, and formant synthesis systems have advantages over concatenative systems. Formant-synthesized speech can be reliably intelligible, even at very high speeds, avoiding the acoustic glitches that commonly plague concatenative systems. High-speed synthesized speech is used by the visually impaired to quickly navigate computers using a screen reader. Formant synthesizers are usually smaller programs than concatenative systems because they do not have a database of speech samples. They can therefore be used in embedded systems, where memory and microprocessor power are especially limited. Because formant-based systems have complete control of all aspects of the output speech, a wide variety of prosodies and intonations can be output, conveying not just questions and statements, but a variety of emotions and tones of voice.
Examples of non-real-time but highly accurate intonation control in formant synthesis include the work done in the late 1970s for the Texas Instruments toy Speak & Spell, and in the early 1980s Sega arcade machines[42] and in many Atari, Inc. arcade games[43] using the TMS5220 LPC Chips. Creating proper intonation for these projects was painstaking, and the results have yet to be matched by real-time text-to-speech interfaces.[44]
Articulatory synthesis
Articulatory synthesis refers to computational techniques for synthesizing speech based on models of the human vocal tract and the articulation processes occurring there. The first articulatory synthesizer regularly used for laboratory experiments was developed at Haskins Laboratories in the mid-1970s by Philip Rubin, Tom Baer, and Paul Mermelstein. This synthesizer, known as ASY, was based on vocal tract models developed at Bell Laboratories in the 1960s and 1970s by Paul Mermelstein, Cecil Coker, and colleagues.
Until recently, articulatory synthesis models have not been incorporated into commercial speech synthesis systems. A notable exception is the NeXT-based system originally developed and marketed by Trillium Sound Research, a spin-off company of the University of Calgary, where much of the original research was conducted. Following the demise of the various incarnations of NeXT (started by Steve Jobs in the late 1980s and merged with Apple Computer in 1997), the Trillium software was published under the GNU General Public License, with work continuing as gnuspeech. The system, first marketed in 1994, provides full articulatory-based text-to-speech conversion using a waveguide or transmission-line analog of the human oral and nasal tracts controlled by Carré's "distinctive region model".
More recent synthesizers, developed by Jorge C. Lucero and colleagues, incorporate models of vocal fold biomechanics, glottal aerodynamics and acoustic wave propagation in the bronchi, trachea, nasal and oral cavities, and thus constitute full systems of physics-based speech simulation.[45][46] | The two primary technologies generating synthetic speech waveforms are concatenative synthesis and formant synthesis.
Concatenative synthesis is based on stringing together segments of recorded speech. It generally produces the most natural-sounding synthesized speech. However, differences between natural variations in speech and the nature of the automated techniques for segmenting the waveforms sometimes result in audible glitches in the output. Maximum naturalness typically requires speech databases to be very large, in some systems ranging into the gigabytes of recorded data, representing dozens of hours of speech.
Formant synthesis does not use human speech samples at runtime. Instead, the synthesized speech output is created using additive synthesis and an acoustic model. Many systems based on formant synthesis technology generate artificial, robotic-sounding speech that would never be mistaken for human speech. They are usually smaller programs than concatenative systems because they do not have a database of speech samples. They can therefore be used in embedded systems, where memory and microprocessor power are especially limited. | dolly-9692 | en | 4,467 |
Is ABAKO no longer an active political party? | The Alliance of Bakongo (French: Alliance des Bakongo, or ABAKO) was a Congolese political party, founded by Edmond Nzeza Nlandu, but headed by Joseph Kasa-Vubu, which emerged in the late 1950s as vocal opponent of Belgian colonial rule in what today is the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Additionally, the organization served as the major ethno-religious organization for the Kongo people (also known as Bakongo) and became closely intertwined with the Kimbanguist Church which was extremely popular in the lower Congo. | Correct, The Alliance of Bakongo, or ABAKO, is no longer a political party. | dolly-9759 | en | 4,468 |
Extract the occupations of Elie Wiesel from the text. | Elie Wiesel (/ˈɛli viːˈzɛl/, born Eliezer Wiesel, Yiddish: אליעזר װיזעל Eliezer Vizel;[4][5] September 30, 1928 – July 2, 2016) was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. | Writer, Professor, Activist | dolly-9764 | en | 4,469 |
Classify the below based on the products they sell.
Adidas, nike, Pepsi, Sprite, Fanta, FILA | null | Adidas, nike, FILA - Shoe
Pepsi, Sprite, Fanta - Beverages | dolly-9772 | en | 4,470 |
Which team won the 2023 NCAA Men's National Championship? | The 2023 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament involved 68 teams playing in a single-elimination tournament that determined the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I men's basketball national champion for the 2022–23 season. The 84th annual edition of the tournament began on March 14, 2023, and concluded with the UConn Huskies defeating the San Diego State Aztecs, 76–59 in the championship game on April 3 at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas. | The University of Connecticut Huskies | dolly-9775 | en | 4,471 |
Best places to visit in India During Winter to experience Snowfall | null | Kashmir, Manali, Shimla, Sikkim, Tawang | dolly-9816 | en | 4,472 |
Identify the bird from the list: Mouse, Balearic shearwater, Giraffe | null | Balearic shearwater | dolly-9818 | en | 4,473 |
Why are people migrating in the US from the NE and Mid-West to the South and SE? | null | Lower cost of living | dolly-9841 | en | 4,474 |
Identify from the following list all of the ingredients that are necessary to bake chocolate chip cookies: butter, spinach, eggs, flour, apples, sugar, vanilla extract, chocolate chips, charcoal, a positive COVID 19 test cassette, fingernail polish, salt | null | Butter, eggs, flour, sugar, vanilla extract, chocolate chips, salt | dolly-9848 | en | 4,475 |
How does one prepare for interviews at consulting firms? | null | Use case study books that are available to practice the case studies in interviews. Often the business schools will have copies of the case study material. In addition, there will be a leadership assessment that is done using examples of projects executed by the interviewee. Consulting companies like BCG, Bain and McKinsey conduct assessment around Problem solving, structuring, leadership, and empathy/EQ. In addition, some of the questions may require estimations, understanding graphs and doing rough calculations. Interviewee is expected to diagnose the issue, and likely root cause. While evaluating, it is ok to share your thinking and approach to solving the problem. Practicing with your peers helps a lot. | dolly-9891 | en | 4,476 |
Classify each of the following as either a title by Kevin Kwan or Veronica Roth: Sex and Vanity, Crazy Rich Asians, China Rich Girlfriend, Rich People Problems, Luck: The Essential Guide, Divergent, Allegiant, Insurgent, Carve the Mark, Chosen Ones | null | Kevin Kwan: Sex and Vanity, Crazy Rich Asians, China Rich Girlfriend, Rich People Problems, Luck: The Essential Guide
Veronica Roth: Divergent, Allegiant, Insurgent, Carve the Mark, Chosen Ones | dolly-9940 | en | 4,477 |
What is the best boba order to place from a local boba store for a company that has around 300 employees in the office? | null | In order to serve up to 300 people, it's best to order a couple of different tea flavors to fit everyone's taste. People may also have different sweetness and ice preferences, but it can be hard to account for so many preferences, so a good default would be to set every drink to half sweetness and half ice.
A possible order could be: 20 cups of black milk tea, 20 cups of green milk tea, 20 cups of oolong milk tea, 20 cups of mango green tea, 20 cups of passionfruit green tea, 20 cups of matcha latte, 20 cups of taro milk tea, and 20 cups of Thai milk tea. It's best to ask for the boba on the side so that it stays fresh during delivery. Since this is a local store, it would be also wise to place the order ahead of time so that they aren't overwhelmed with the order size.
This order accounts for many different tastes and reduces the likelihood of over-ordering, as it's possible that not all employees will want boba. | dolly-9954 | en | 4,478 |
What is the Taylor rule? | null | The Taylor rule is a monetary policy targeting rule. The rule was proposed in 1992 by American economist John B. Taylor for central banks to use to stabilize economic activity by appropriately setting short-term interest rates. The rule considers the federal funds rate, the price level and changes in real income. The Taylor rule computes the optimal federal funds rate based on the gap between the desired (targeted) inflation rate and the actual inflation rate; and the output gap between the actual and natural output level. According to Taylor, monetary policy is stabilizing when the nominal interest rate is higher/lower than the increase/decrease in inflation. Thus the Taylor rule prescribes a relatively high interest rate when actual inflation is higher than the inflation target. | dolly-9975 | en | 4,479 |
Write a story with a moral lesson at the end? | null | You all know the Lion is the king of the forest. One lion king used to go everywhere in its kingdom with his advisors, the wolf and the fox. As lunch time approached, the king asked the wolf what we should do. The wolf said that the prey animals will be coming from the north. You wait hidden in the bush in the south. I shall wait in the west and the fox can wait in the east and ensure the prey do not escape to the east or west.
Good idea. so they all followed the plan. Along came a rabbit, ran helter skelter frightened on seeing the fox and the wolf and straight into the lion, who with one swipe of its paw killed the rabbit. Next a donkey came by and met a similar fate. So did a deer. The lion felt they had sufficient food for their meal and asked the wolf of how we were going to share the meal. The wolf said that the fox can have the rabbit., the lion can have the donkey and he would partake of the deer. The lion knew the tastiest meat is that of the deer, and sensing the deviousness of the advisor wolf smacked him dead. Next he asked the fox for advice on sharing. The fox meekly replied that whatever way the lion wants to have the meal is fine and good. On hearing this the lion said you are a wise and good advisor, who is your guru? The fox humbly replied that the wolf was his guru. Seeing the fate of the wolf the fox learnt from the wolf's mistake.
The moral of the story: You can and must learn from your mistakes. To err is human. But to repeat a mistake is foolish. However we need not keep making mistakes to learn life lessons. It is really wise to learn from other's mistake. | dolly-9986 | en | 4,480 |
Give me a summary of the history of Thackeray Hall at the University of Pittsburgh based on this passage. | The building is the former National Union Fire Insurance Company building built circa 1923–1925 in the Early Classical style.[4][5] The building was purchased by the university in 1968 for $1.875 million ($14.6 million in 2021 dollars[6]), and was originally purposed for faculty offices.[7] It was known as the Social Sciences Building until 1972 when it was renamed Mervis Hall and designated as the home of the Graduate School of Business.[4] In 1983, when the Graduate School of Business moved into a new building also named Mervis Hall, it was renamed Thackeray Hall. | Thackeray Hall used to be the building for the National Union Fire Insurance Company until it was purchased by the University of Pittsburgh in 1968 for $1.875 million. First, it was used for faculty offices, then later known as the Social Sciences Building until it was renamed Mervis Hall. In 1983, it was renamed Thackeray Hall and has housed the university's Department of Mathematics since then. | dolly-10026 | en | 4,481 |
What are the types of space objects ? | null | The International Astronomical Union (IAU) classifies objects in the Solar system into 3 categories :
1. Planet : a celestial body orbiting the Sun, with enough mass to assume a (nearly round) hydrostatic equilibrium shape, and that has "cleared the neighbourhood" around its orbit,
2. Dwarf planet : a celestial body orbiting the Sun, with enough mass to assume a (nearly round) hydrostatic equilibrium shape, but that has not "cleared the neighbourhood" around its orbit and is not a satellite,
3. Small Solar System Bodies : all other objects orbiting the sun that are not satellites.
Small Solar System Bodies of the Solar system include :
- Moons : celestial bodies that orbit a planet or a dwarf planet,
- Asteroids : rocky non-spherical left-over objects from the early formation of the Solar system. They travel around the sun and most of them are located within the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter,
- Comets : icy bodies that can also contain minerals, rocks and dust left over from the formation of the solar system. They travel around the sun and can be found mostly beyond Neptune in the Kuiper Belt, as well as far beyond Pluto in the Oort cloud,
- Meteoroids : objects in space that often come from other larger bodies such as comets, asteroids or even moons and planets. Meteoroids can be rocky, others can be metallic, or combinations of both. Their sizes range from dust grains to small asteroids. | dolly-10064 | en | 4,482 |
Make a list of different reasons that a kite might not be able to be flown | null | You might not be able to fly a kite if there isn't any wind, if the strings are tangled, if the kite is broken or if the kite gets caught up in a tree | dolly-10086 | en | 4,483 |
What makes Sachin Tendulkar so special? | Sachin Tendulkar is wonderful not because of his cricketing prowess; if that were the case, roughly the same degree of adoration would have been held for Rahul Dravid, who is also in the same league in terms of performance...
164 Tests, 13288 runs at 52.88 versus Sachin's 200 Tests, 15921 runs at 53.86
As you can see, there is nothing to select between the two.
Of course, Sachin has a significant advantage in one-dayers: 39 vs 44 in averages. Yet not nearly enough to deserve Sachin's adoration. | Sachin Tendulkar is wonderful not because of his cricketing prowess; if that were the case, roughly the same degree of adoration would have been held for Rahul Dravid, who is also in the same league in terms of performance...
164 Tests, 13288 runs at 52.88 versus Sachin's 200 Tests, 15921 runs at 53.86
As you can see, there is nothing to select between the two.
Of course, Sachin has a significant advantage in one-dayers: 39 vs 44 in averages. Yet not nearly enough to deserve Sachin's adoration.
Sachin is great in my opinion mostly because of his age when he first entered the cricket scene; to perform what he did at the age of 16 is incredible. Consider yourself at 16...and then consider Imran, Waqar, and Wasim blasting into you at 16 in front of a partisan crowd, with all of India watching. Consider yourself as a 16-year-old fighting the arch-enemy Pakistan. Imagine yourself at the age of 16 being smashed on the body with a leather ball. Consider yourself at 16 years old, attempting to focus on the ball in front of a roaring crowd.
That is what he did....
And a legend was born!
His achievements from 16 - 22 are the stuff of legend; and that is his primary claim to greatness.
Yes, there are other factors: his simplicity, his focus, his concentration, his determination, his longevity etc... but the primary one is the aspect listed above.
But even that does not explain his sustained claim to greatness over the years,
To this, we must add that he is a fighter who enjoys a good challenge. The manner he dealt with the top fast bowlers of the day, like as Allan Donald. And his famed war with Shane Warne... these battles, and more, when he faced the opposition, are unique to him; almost.
And then there's the fact that he's believed to have the purest game with the widest range of shots... To watch him bat is to witness beauty in action, poetry in motion. There is no better sight than Sachin in full flow...
And the icing on the cake?
He has succeeded in all forms of the game. Try and find me 2 other players who have done that. | dolly-10099 | en | 4,484 |
Who is Harry Potter? | null | Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. The novels chronicle the lives of a young wizard, Harry Potter, and his friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, all of whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The main story arc concerns Harry's conflict with Lord Voldemort, a dark wizard who intends to become immortal, overthrow the wizard governing body known as the Ministry of Magic and subjugate all wizards and Muggles (non-magical people).
The series follows the life of a boy named Harry Potter. In the first book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry lives in a cupboard under the stairs in the house of the Dursleys, his aunt, uncle and cousin, Dudley. The Dursleys consider themselves perfectly normal, but at the age of 11, Harry discovers that he is a wizard. He meets a half-giant named Hagrid who invites him to attend the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry learns that as a baby, his parents were murdered by the dark wizard Lord Voldemort. When Voldemort attempted to kill Harry, his curse rebounded and Harry survived with a lightning-shaped scar on his forehead.
Harry becomes a student at Hogwarts and is sorted into Gryffindor House. He gains the friendship of Ron Weasley, a member of a large but poor wizarding family, and Hermione Granger, a witch of non-magical, or Muggle, parentage. Harry encounters the school's potions master, Severus Snape, who displays a dislike for him; the rich pure-blood Draco Malfoy whom he develops an enmity with; and the Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, Quirinus Quirrell, who turns out to be allied with Lord Voldemort. The first book concludes with Harry's confrontation with Voldemort, who, in his quest to regain a body, yearns to gain the power of the Philosopher's Stone, a substance that bestows everlasting life. | dolly-10151 | en | 4,485 |
What is a good way to start a garden bed in my backyard? | null | Double digging your garden bed can yield great results. Take a shovel and dig one blade length into the soil and set that to the side. Then dig out a second blade length into the soil and set this portion to the side as well. Put the first portion back into the hole you've dug and then place the second portion on the top. By following this method, you can exchange the subsoil and topsoil. Alternatively, you can build a raised garden bed using wood or other material you have hand like corrugated metal. A raised garden bed should have sides that are about 1 - 3 feet high although you can vary this based on your needs. Fill the garden bed with soil mix from your local garden store or from other areas of your yard. Once the garden bed is filled, you can begin planting. Finally, you can use a sheet mulching method to start a garden bed in your backyard. Take thick cardboard or several sheets of a heavy paper material and lay it down on top of a grassy area in your backyard. You want to make sure that the cardboard or paper is overlapped so that it blocks all light to soil and grass underneath it. Once you have finished laying down your material to block the light, spread compost on top so it is three to six inches deep. You can plant into this compost layer. As a final layer, place one to three inches of mulch or straw on top to protect your compost layer. | dolly-10154 | en | 4,486 |
What does "16-bit" mean when referring to digital audio? | A PCM signal is a sequence of digital audio samples containing the data providing the necessary information to reconstruct the original analog signal. Each sample represents the amplitude of the signal at a specific point in time, and the samples are uniformly spaced in time. The amplitude is the only information explicitly stored in the sample, and it is typically stored as either an integer or a floating point number, encoded as a binary number with a fixed number of digits: the sample's bit depth, also referred to as word length or word size.
The resolution indicates the number of discrete values that can be represented over the range of analog values. The resolution of binary integers increases exponentially as the word length increases. Adding one bit doubles the resolution, adding two quadruples it and so on. The number of possible values that can be represented by an integer bit depth can be calculated by using 2^n, where n is the bit depth.[1] Thus, a 16-bit system has a resolution of 65,536 (2^16) possible values. | Converting sound into a digital format requires taking samples of the original sound wave at regular points in time. These samples numerically represent the relative strength, or amplitude, of the analog wave as it varies over time. For digital audio, these numbers are recorded in binary notation. When digital audio is advertised as 16-bit, we mean that the numerical samples of the artist's recording were recorded as 16 digit-long binary numbers. | dolly-10195 | en | 4,487 |
Why Linux fails as a desktop? | null | Linux has been criticized for a number of reasons, including lack of user-friendliness and having a steep learning curve, being inadequate for desktop use, lacking support for some hardware, having a relatively small games library, lacking native versions of widely used applications. | dolly-10204 | en | 4,488 |
In the series A Song of Ice and Fire, who is the founder of House Durrandon? | null | Durran, also known as Durran Godsgrief | dolly-10230 | en | 4,489 |
Please extract the names of each of the Second City Theatre venues in which Chris Farley was a cast member, separated by commas. | Christopher Crosby Farley was born on February 15, 1964, in Madison, Wisconsin, and grew up in Maple Bluff.[5] His father, Thomas John Farley Sr. (1936–99), owned an oil company, and his mother, Mary Anne (née Crosby), was a homemaker.[2] He had four siblings: Tom Jr., Kevin, John, and Barbara. His cousin, Jim, is chief executive officer at Ford Motor Company.[6][7]
The Farleys are Irish Catholics. Chris attended parochial schools in Madison, including Edgewood High School of the Sacred Heart. According to Joel Murray, a fellow Second City cast member, Chris would "always make it to Mass."[8]
Many of his summers were spent as a camper and counselor at Red Arrow Camp, near Minocqua, Wisconsin. He graduated from Marquette University in 1986, with a double major in communications and theater.[9] At Marquette, he played rugby union and discovered a love of comedy.[10]
After college, he worked with his father at the Scotch Oil Company in Madison.[11] He first learned the art of improvisational comedy at the Ark Improv Theatre in Madison.
Farley made his way to Chicago, performing first at Improv Olympic. He then attended Chicago's Second City Theatre, starting the same day as Stephen Colbert,[12] initially as part of Second City's touring group. He was eventually promoted to their main stage in 1989, and was a cast member of three revues, The Gods Must Be Lazy, It Was Thirty Years Ago Today, and Flag Smoking Permitted in Lobby Only or Censorama.[13] | The Gods Must Be Lazy, It Was Thirty Years Ago Today, Flag Smoking Permitted in Lobby Only or Censorama | dolly-10253 | en | 4,490 |
Classify the following cartridge types by whether they are typically used in a pistol or a rifle: 9mm, .40 S&W, 5.56mm NATO, .45 ACP, 7.62mm NATO, 6.5mm Creedmoor, 6.5mm Grendel, .357 Magnum | null | 9mm - Pistol
.40 S&W - Pistol
5.56mm NATO - Rifle
.45 ACP - Pistol
7.62mm NATO - Rifle
6.5mm Creedmoor - Rifle
6.5mm Grendel - Rifle
.357 Magnum - Pistol | dolly-10305 | en | 4,491 |
How many letters there are in the hebrew language | null | The Hebrew alphabet consists of 22 letters, all consonants: Alef is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet and Tav is the last. The Hebrew alphabet is often called the "alef-bet," because of its first two letters in the alphabet. | dolly-10318 | en | 4,492 |
What is a good present for my wife? | null | Flowers and chocolates are often well received. | dolly-10389 | en | 4,493 |
You are a product manager at an enterprise software company Y. Your CEO has asked you to write a report on how well the company supports X capabilities. Provide a template email to send to my CEO that includes a TLDR and a link to the report. Use “<” and “>” to denote placeholder text I need to customize. | null | <CEO name>:
Please see the following overview of Y’s support on X capabilities:
<link to report>
TLDR
* <The most important takeaway you want the CEO to get from this report>
* <A critical gap you identified in Y’s ability to support X capabilities>
* <A key learning you were surprised by after performing your research for the report>
Let me know if you have any comments/questions. We aim to use this report to inform our product strategy.
<Your name> | dolly-10394 | en | 4,494 |
Is Chen Ruo Bing a Chinese or Japanese artist? | Chen Ruo Bing (born 1970) is a Chinese artist whose abstract color painting merges Eastern tradition and Western contemporary art. | Chinese | dolly-10418 | en | 4,495 |
Why was the movie The Happytime Murders given such bad reviews if it was award winning? | The Happytime Murders was released on August 24, 2018, by STXfilms. It received mostly negative reviews from critics for its humor, performances and story, though the puppetry received praise. The film was a box-office bomb, grossing $27.5 million worldwide against a $40–47 million budget. The film received six nominations at the 39th Golden Raspberry Awards, including Worst Picture, and Worst Actress for McCarthy who won that award. | The Golden Raspberry Awards, also known as the Razzies, is a parody award show. They celebrate the failures in cinema. Their tagline is "Own Your Bad" and often celebrities that are nominated for a Razzie take it in jest. Sometimes the roles or categories a movie is nominated in the Razzies are also nominated for Oscars or other acclaimed awards. The Happytime Murders film, however, was only nominated for parody awards such as the Razzies. | dolly-10420 | en | 4,496 |
From the passage identify the subtypes of Hepatovirus A. Display the results in comma separated format. | Hepatovirus A is a species of virus in the order Picornavirales, family Picornaviridae, genus Hepatovirus. Humans and other vertebrates serve as natural hosts.[18][19]
Nine members of Hepatovirus are recognized.[20] These species infect bats, rodents, hedgehogs, and shrews. Phylogenetic analysis suggests a rodent origin for Hepatitis A.[citation needed]
A member virus of hepatovirus B (Phopivirus) has been isolated from a seal.[21][22] This virus shared a common ancestor with Hepatovirus A about 1800 years ago.[citation needed]
Another hepatovirus – Marmota himalayana hepatovirus – has been isolated from the woodchuck Marmota himalayana.[23] This virus appears to have had a common ancestor with the primate-infecting species around 1000 years ago.[citation needed]
One serotype and seven different genetic groups (four human and three simian) have been described.[24] The human genotypes are numbered I–III. Six subtypes have been described (IA, IB, IIA, IIB, IIIA, IIIB). The simian genotypes have been numbered IV–VI. A single isolate of genotype VII isolated from a human has also been described.[25] Genotype III has been isolated from both humans and owl monkeys. Most human isolates are of genotype I.[26] Of the type I isolates subtype IA accounts for the majority.
The mutation rate in the genome has been estimated to be 1.73–9.76 × 10−4 nucleotide substitutions per site per year.[27][28] The human strains appear to have diverged from the simian about 3600 years ago.[28] The mean age of genotypes III and IIIA strains has been estimated to be 592 and 202 years, respectively.[28] | IA, IB, IIA, IIB, IIIA, IIIB | dolly-10437 | en | 4,497 |
Given this paragraph about Selena Gomez, where did her first name come from? | Selena Marie Gomez was born on July 22, 1992, in Grand Prairie, Texas,[1] to Ricardo Joel Gomez and Texas-born[2] former stage actress Mandy Teefey.[3] She was named after Tejano singer Selena Quintanilla, who died in 1995.[4][5] Her father is of Mexican descent, while her mother, who was adopted, has Italian ancestry.[6][7][8] Gomez's paternal grandparents emigrated to Texas from Monterrey in the 1970s.[9] Of her heritage, Gomez has said she is "a proud third-generation American-Mexican"[10] and "My family does have quinceañeras, and we go to the communion church. We do everything that's Catholic, but we don't really have anything traditional except go to the park and have barbecues on Sundays after church."[11] Gomez was fluent in Spanish until age seven.[9] Her parents divorced when she was five years old, and she remained with her mother.[3][12] Gomez has two younger half-sisters and a younger stepbrother: Gracie Elliot Teefey, through Mandy and her second husband, Brian Teefey,[13][14] and Victoria "Tori" and Marcus Gomez, through Ricardo and his second wife, Sara.[15] She earned her high-school diploma through homeschooling in May 2010.[16] | Selena Gomez was named after Selena Quintanilla, a Tejano singer. | dolly-10451 | en | 4,498 |
What is sbt in Scala? | null | sbt is an open-source build tool for Scala and Java projects, similar to Apache's Maven and Gradle. | dolly-10461 | en | 4,499 |
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