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task093_conala_normalize_lists
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task093-9f7e47ea7f6f44d6a7763f0ae43c17ae
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In this task, you will be given a list of numbers. The goal is to divide all the numbers in the list by a constant such that the sum of the resulting list is 1. The output should be rounded to 3 decimals.
[117.02, -35.063, 104.967, 154.424, -51.405, -40.591, 11.132, 93.645]
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[ 0.33 -0.099 0.296 0.436 -0.145 -0.115 0.031 0.264]
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task363_sst2_polarity_classification
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task363-213b1275f710448dbc79a8b35c7d1a7a
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In this task, you are given sentences from movie reviews. The task is to classify a sentence as "POS" if the sentiment of the sentence is positive or as "NEG" if the sentiment of the sentence is negative
The story , touching though it is , does not quite have enough emotional resonance or variety of incident to sustain a feature , and even at 85 minutes it feels a bit long .
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NEG
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task139_detoxifying-lms_classification_topicality
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task139-a7de74f4d60440d5b51194366e1a0636
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Given a prompt and two completions from a language model, select the completion that is more topical with respect to continuing the prompt. A prompt-completion pair is defined to be topical if the completion maintains relevance and logical succession (i.e. stays on topic) with the prompt. The flow from the prompt to the completion should be as reasonable as possible. Generate either Completion A or Completion B.
Prompt: Bitch, I fucking hope you do. You'll be a dead
Completion A: man walking for years to come. What a surprise that's a good thing. You are going to get some positive press and be a huge part of
Completion B: ringer for her in years to come. That's one more thing you won't be able to hide. You know it." "O
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Completion B
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task1336_peixian_equity_evaluation_corpus_gender_classifier
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task1336-84b787a194e94efd913a925bb47e86f9
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You will be given a sentence containing a pronoun/person name and an emotion. From these implicit parameters, the main goal is to find the gender of the person (male / female).
Alphonse told us all about the recent irritating events.
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male
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task1412_web_questions_question_answering
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task1412-2351b5b707b5470c93e4d35c5944dc3c
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A question is presented to you in this task, and your job is to write a potentially correct answer.
what 3 states border the pacific ocean?
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California
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task405_narrativeqa_question_generation
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task405-6052109d3d894ed19629a3b061ba4849
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You will be given a summary of a story. You need to create a question that can be answered from the story. You can create a question about characters, events, facts and beliefs, etc. Your question should be specific, try not to use pronouns instead of full names. As the stories are sometimes movie plots, they will contain actor names in parentheses. You should not use those names. Only use character names. Try to ask a question about all parts of the plot, not just the beginning.
In 1988 in Brooklyn, New York, Bobby Green (Joaquin Phoenix) is the manager of the successful El Caribe nightclub in Brighton Beach that is frequented by Russian black market gangster and drug lord Vadim Nezhinski (Alex Veadov), and owned by Marat Buzhayev, Vadim's uncle and Bobby's boss.
Bobby has distanced himself from his father, NYPD Deputy Chief Burt Grusinsky (Robert Duvall), and his brother, Captain Joseph Grusinsky (Mark Wahlberg). He uses the maiden name of his mother, Carol Green, as his last name, preferring to remain on the sidelines and enjoy a hedonistic life with his girlfriend Amada Juarez (Eva Mendes) and best friend Louis "Jumbo" Falsetti (Danny Hoch).
When Joseph leads a police raid on El Caribe in the hopes of arresting Vadim, Bobby refuses to cooperate. The incident strains Bobby's relationship with his father and brother even more, to the point that Bobby and Joseph come to blows.
The police are unsuccessful in making a case against Vadim, who decides to retaliate. The next evening, Joseph is shot by a masked assailant, and his unmarked police cruiser firebombed. Joseph survives the ambush, but is hospitalized for four months. Vadim, unaware of Bobby's family ties, confides that the Chief will be the next victim. Bobby resolves to help the police. Without his father's knowledge, Bobby goes undercover inside Vadim's cocaine-smuggling operation with a police listening device hidden in a cigarette lighter, but when the device is discovered, he narrowly escapes being murdered, and the police raid the operation and arrest Vadim.
Bobby and Amada are placed in protective police custody, and their relationship begins to deteriorate. Months later, Vadim escapes custody while being transported to a hospital. The police prepare to move Bobby and Amada to a new location. During a blinding thunderstorm, the police convoy is intercepted by Vadim's men, and during a chaotic car chase, Burt is fatally shot. Bobby passes out in the rain when he sees his father's body.
The police take Bobby and Amada back to a hotel near Kennedy Airport. Bobby wakes up a few hours later and finds Joseph in the hotel room. After Joseph tells him that their father died, the grief-stricken Bobby asks how "they" found them. At the subsequent funeral, a colleague of Joseph's, Captain Jack Shapiro, gives him Burt's Korean War medal. Bobby is told that a Russian shipment of cocaine is arriving sometime in the coming week.
To avenge his father, Bobby decides to officially join the police force without the consent of Amada, who leaves him. After he is sworn into the NYPD, Bobby learns the true involvement of Jumbo, his friend, and Marat, Vadim's uncle. He and Joseph organize a final sting operation, set for April 4, 1989. During the raid, Joseph is emotionally incapacitated by the memory of his shooting and cannot continue. Vadim flees into the reed beds, and the police toss in flares to smoke him out. As the beds are engulfed in flame and smoke, Bobby runs in to find Vadim himself, ignoring the other officers' pleas that he wait. Bobby shoots Vadim in the chest, mortally wounding him.
Nearly a year after the raid on El Caribe, Bobby, now in uniform, graduates from the NYPD Police Academy to become a full-time police officer. Before the ceremony, Joseph reveals to Bobby that he has decided to switch to a job in the administration sector, since the shooting led him to realize that he needs to spend more time with his children. As the chaplain announces that Bobby is to give the valedictorian address, Bobby thinks he sees Amada in the audience, but it turns out to be an illusion. Bobby and Joseph express their brotherly love.
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How does Bobby's father die?
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task454_swag_incorrect_answer_generation
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task454-f44c98efbbcf42c69f4f1141328f22db
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Given a sentence, generate a most unlikely next statement. The next statement should not be logically relevant to the given context
Protesters grow rowdy as the motorcade passey them. The convoy
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dissolves from a lab, which was loaded with food.
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task283_dream_incorrect_answer_generation
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task283-a5197eafd2fd4705a12a5fea7c866cef
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In this task, you will be shown a conversation and a question. You need to write an implausible answer to the question. Even though there exist multiple wrong answers, we only need a single wrong answer. "W" and "M" in the conversations stand for "woman" and "man".
M: I'm thinking about transfering out of state college into another school in the fall. W: After a year and a half? How come? I thought you liked it here. M: I do. But here our flight program doesn't give degrees, only licenses, and I need both a license and a degree. W: So where do you want to go? M: I wouldn't mind going to Makmillen university. It has an excellent reputation for its school of aviation, but I have a feeling it's very selective. W: But you've gotten good grades in the three semesters you've been in the state college, haven't you? M: Yah, mostly A's and B's. W: So what are you worried about then, just ask your professors to write letters of recommendation for you, and you'll be set., Question: What is the man planning to do?
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Move to a warmer state.
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task568_circa_question_generation
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task568-248b5d6f7abe4e9890c2af36ccafc17e
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In this task, you are given an answer, and your task is to generate a reasonable question for that answer.
I'm probably going to.
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Are you going to quit?
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task1382_quarel_write_correct_answer
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task1382-02df12667e4a4d0491804b75f588250e
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You are given a sentence and a question. You're expected to write the correct answer based on the sentence.
Sentence: Ellie exercises on her treadmill each day. One day she sets the treadmill up to be flat and runs on it for a set amount of time. The next day she sets the treadmill to incline so that she is running uphill which causes more exertion in the same amount of time. Question: Which treadmill setup will cause Ellie to drip more perspiration onto the treadmill?
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the inclined treadmill
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task905_hate_speech_offensive_classification
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task905-05c17fc589744228a7fbfa6af1a0281b
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You are given a text of the tweet and a corresponding label whether this tweet is 'Offensive', 'Hate Speech' or 'Neither'. Your job is to identify if the label is correct. Generate label 'true' if it's correct, 'false' otherwise.
Tweet: Long yellow.
Label: Hate Speech
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false
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task065_timetravel_consistent_sentence_classification
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task065-39a27b6e0e524d548816f84f880089b7
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In this task, you are given a short story consisting of exactly 5 sentences where the second sentence is missing. You are given two options and you need to select the one that best connects the first sentence with the rest of the story. Indicate your answer by 'Option 1' if the first option is correct, otherwise 'Option 2'. The incorrect option will change the subsequent storyline, so that at least one of the three subsequent sentences is no longer consistent with the story.
Sentence 1: Tia was hunting to feed her family.
Sentence 3: Her arrow pierced it and brought it down
Sentence 4: Happily, Tia went to get it and bring it home
Sentence 5: There, she plucked it and roasted it for her family
Option 1: She aimed her gun at a fat flying goose.
Option 2: She aimed her bow at a fat flying goose.
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Option 2
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task094_conala_calculate_mean
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task094-06da5d1491a947a29e1402105d8fa6d2
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In this task you will be given a list of numbers and you need to find the mean (average) of that list. The mean of a list can be found by summing every number in the list then dividing the result by the size of that list. The output should be rounded to 3 decimal places.
[84.074, 36.545, 74.236, -44.079, 183.305, 141.542, -77.383, 53.848, -18.09, 146.092]
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58.009
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task898_freebase_qa_answer_generation
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task898-44ca42ddcd784d249266d1cd83370bcf
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Given an trivia question precisely answer the question with a word/phrase/name. External resources such as Wikipedia could be used to obtain the facts.
In which English city is Preston Park railway station?
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brighton
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task587_amazonfood_polarity_correction_classification
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task587-b3271ab0d88542a8a835ab7f0ffec902
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You are given an amazon food product review and its polarity (positive or negative). Your task is to answer "True" if the specified sentence and its polarity match; otherwise, answer "False".
I love this product. All of the different flavors are fantastic. My family likes the 3 grain the best. No more corn tortilla chips in this house!
Polarity: Positive
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True
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task114_is_the_given_word_longest
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task114-781491c0309c4351a2b328dc616415da
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In this task, you need to answer 'Yes' if the given word is the longest word (in terms of number of letters) in the given sentence, else answer 'No'. Note that there could be multiple longest words in a sentence as they can have the same length that is the largest across all words in that sentence.
Sentence: 'a blender and an empty glass are on a counter'. Is 'counter' the longest word in the sentence?
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Yes
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task582_naturalquestion_answer_generation
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task582-dbccd77a64284d56909a2f1bf4c7c55e
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In this task, You are given an open-domain question that can be answered based on factual information. Your task is to provide \*short\* answer (in a few words only) for the given question. The short answer can be one or more entities or it can also be boolean \*yes\* or \*no\*.
who do northern ireland represent in the olympics
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Team GB
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task1603_smcalflow_sentence_generation
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task1603-aa4b77f14d8440b5ae05a468c0ae7184
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In this task, you have given an input which is user's command or question, based on that you have to return what will be Agent's response/reply for that particular user's command or question
what is the other one?
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Last was "Fall into an bottomless pit" today from 3:00 to 3:30 PM.
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task066_timetravel_binary_consistency_classification
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task066-1678797573ed46a888a88218901e8f24
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In this task, you are given a short story consisting of exactly 5 sentences where the second sentence is missing. You are given a candidate for the second sentence and you need to identify if the given sentence connects the first sentence with the rest of the story. Indicate your answer by "Yes" if it connects, otherwise "No". Do not generate anything else apart from "Yes" or "No". The given sentence is incorrect if it changes the subsequent storyline, so that at least one of the three subsequent sentences form a consistent story.
Sentence 1: Curry learned a new trick on his skateboard.
Sentence 3: Curry could not replicate the trick
Sentence 4: His friend laughed at Curry
Sentence 5: His friend was impressed when Curry finally did the trick
Given Sentence 2: His teacher was notorious for docking grades due to tardiness.
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No
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task1551_every_ith_element_from_kth_element
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task1551-947d90e4e10f43158d6624c87c11b00b
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In this task, you are given inputs k, i, and A, where k and i are integers and A is a list. You need to find every ith element of A starting from the kth element. The process stops when the position of the next ith element exceeds the length of the list.
3, 11, ['Q', 'c', '393', 'T', 'Q', 'm', '737', 'p', 'e', 'K', 'j', 'm', '3059', '7087', 'V', '1883', '5705', '4875', 'j', '661', '197', 'y']
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393, 7087
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task1420_mathqa_general
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task1420-3b1aa5ec48cd48e0a6ee878a7b9da7a9
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In this task, you need to answer the given multiple-choice question on the general math. Classify your answers into 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', and 'e'.
Problem: the divisor is 21 , the quotient is 14 and the remainder is 7 . what is the dividend ?
Options: a ) 201 , b ) 394 , c ) 302 , d ) 301 , e ) 294
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d
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task208_combinations_of_list
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task208-b3f17e1e27a4465398769d524e54d93e
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In this task, you will be given a list. The list is several integers and letters separated with a comma, written within a []. You can create new lists by dropping one of the items in the input list. Your task is to write a list containing all the possible lists you can make by dropping one item from the input list. For example, if the input list contains two items, you can drop one of the items each time. So the output should be a list comprising two inner lists that you have created by decreasing the items.
['1', 'X', 'O', 'T', 'u', 'r', '2']
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[['1', 'X', 'O', 'T', 'u', 'r'], ['1', 'X', 'O', 'T', 'u', '2'], ['1', 'X', 'O', 'T', 'r', '2'], ['1', 'X', 'O', 'u', 'r', '2'], ['1', 'X', 'T', 'u', 'r', '2'], ['1', 'O', 'T', 'u', 'r', '2'], ['X', 'O', 'T', 'u', 'r', '2']]
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task024_cosmosqa_answer_generation
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task024-c7005b624bbe4160be14d53f545bd86f
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Craft one correct answer to the question given in input. To make it more interesting, try to use non-stereotypical language if possible. Make sure your correct answer is reasonably long, consistent with the context, and requires common sense (instead of explicit extraction from the context.) In your answer, use as few words as possible from the given context. Use a response that is uncommon/non-stereotypical, so that it is less predictable. To be less repetitive, please vary your language for each question.
Context: Hi ! This is Anabelle , and I have a quick and easy way to brighten up gift giving for you . Next time you have a present to give someone , instead of using ribbon , use felt ! It 's a wonderful way to add dimension and beauty to any gift .
Question: What does the recommend for gifts ?
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Using a piece of felt .
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task091_all_elements_from_index_i_to_j
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task091-92b8ecf7dbda4a768c2dce8c1d9dfd59
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In this task, you are given inputs i,j, and A, where i and j are integers and A is a list. You need to list all elements of A from the ith element to the jth element. i and j will be non-negative, and will always have a value less than the length of A. i will always be less than j.
3, 6, ['D', '1365', '1903', '963', 'W', '9301']
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1903, 963, W, 9301
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task246_dream_question_generation
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task246-1fe07e4d1ab8468187a2d83dd56fc73f
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In this task, you will be shown a conversation. You need to write a question with three choices for the conversation. Your question should be answerable based on the conversation and only have one correct answer. Note that you don't need to answer your question. "W" and "M" in the conversations stand for "woman" and "man".
M: Where are you going on vacation this year? W: Well, we were thinking about going on the voyage to the Caribbean Sea. It's a beautiful part of the world. M: It certainly is. I went on one last year. But the weather can sometimes be really bad. W: I know. I have been reading weather reports for the Caribbean on the internet. They seem to have lots of storms. M: They certainly do. When we went on a voyage, we stopped at Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. And both had been hit by storms two weeks before. You could still see a lot of damage. W: Well, if I decide to go, I'll just have to hope for the best.
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What are the speakers talking about? (A) See adventures. (B) Vacation plans. (C) Life at the Caribbean.
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task1296_wiki_hop_question_answering
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task1296-b2c6f329d98a4697a60b7ae91725b87e
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In this task, you are given a context, a subject, a relation, and many options. Based on the context, from the options select the object entity that has the given relation with the subject. Answer with text (not indexes).
Context: Dionysius of Halicarnassus ("Dionysos Alexandrou Alikarnasseus"; ""Dionysios son of Alexandros of Halikarnassos""; c. 60 BCafter 7 BC) was a Greek historian and teacher of rhetoric, who flourished during the reign of Caesar Augustus. His literary style was Atticistic imitating Classical Attic Greek in its prime., Paolo Caliari, known as Paolo Veronese (15281588), was an Italian Renaissance painter, based in Venice, known for large-format history paintings of religion and mythology, such as "The Wedding at Cana"(1563) and "The Feast in the House of Levi" (1573). Included with Titian, a generation older, and Tintoretto, a decade senior, Veronese is one of the great trio that dominated Venetian painting of the "cinquecento" and the Late Renaissance in the 16th century. Known as a supreme colorist, and after an early period with Mannerism, Paolo Veronese developed a naturalist style of painting, influenced by Titian., The Roman Republic was the era of ancient Roman civilization beginning with the overthrow of the Roman Kingdom, traditionally dated to 509 BC, and ending in 27 BC with the establishment of the Roman Empire. It was during this period that Rome's control expanded from the city's immediate surroundings to hegemony over the entire Mediterranean world., Lucretia is a painting by Paolo Veronese from c. 1585 ., Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio (1488/1490 27 August 1576), known in English as Titian , was an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno (in Veneto, Republic of Venice). During his lifetime he was often called "da Cadore", taken from the place of his birth., Tintoretto (born Jacopo Comin, late September or early October, 1518 May 31, 1594) was an Italian painter and a notable exponent of the Renaissance school. For his phenomenal energy in painting he was termed Il Furioso. His work is characterized by its muscular figures, dramatic gestures, and bold use of perspective in the Mannerist style, while maintaining color and light typical of the Venetian School., Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Risk factors include mental disorders such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, personality disorders, alcoholism, or substance misuse. Others are impulsive acts due to stress such as from financial difficulties, troubles with relationships, or from bullying. Those who have previously attempted suicide are at higher risk for future attempts. Suicide prevention efforts include limiting access to method of suicide, such as firearms and poisons, treating mental disorders and substance misuse, proper media reporting of suicide, and improving economic conditions. Although crisis hotlines are common, there is little evidence for their effectiveness.
The most commonly used method of suicide varies between countries, and is partly related to the availability of effective means. Common methods include hanging, pesticide poisoning, and firearms. Suicide resulted in 842,000 deaths globally in 2013 (up from 712,000 deaths in 1990). This makes it the 10th leading cause of death worldwide.
Approximately 0.5% to 1.4% of people die by suicide, about 12 per 100,000 persons per year. Three quarters of suicides globally occur in the developing world. Rates of completed suicides are generally higher in men than in women, ranging from 1.5 times as much in the developing world to 3.5 times in the developed world. Suicide is generally most common among those over the age of 70; however, in certain countries those aged between 15 and 30 are at highest risk. There are an estimated 10 to 20 million non-fatal attempted suicides every year. Non-fatal suicide attempts may lead to injury and long-term disabilities. In the Western world, attempts are more common in young people and females.
Views on suicide have been influenced by broad existential themes such as religion, honor, and the meaning of life. The Abrahamic religions traditionally consider suicide an offense towards God due to the belief in the sanctity of life. During the samurai era in Japan, a form of suicide known as seppuku was respected as a means of making up for failure or as a form of protest. Sati, a practice outlawed by the British Raj, expected the Indian widow to kill herself on her husband's funeral fire, either willingly or under pressure from the family and society. Suicide and attempted suicide, while previously illegal, are no longer in most Western countries. It remains a criminal offense in many countries. In the 20th and 21st centuries, suicide has been used on rare occasions as a form of protest, and kamikaze and suicide bombings have been used as a military or terrorist tactic. The word is from the Latin "suicidium", which means "the killing of oneself".
Definitions.
Suicide, also known as completed suicide, is the "act of taking one's own life". Attempted suicide or non-fatal suicidal behavior is self-injury with the desire to end one's life that does not result in death. Assisted suicide is when one individual helps another bring about their own death indirectly via providing either advice or the means to the end. This is in contrast to euthanasia, where another person takes a more active role in bringing about a person's death. Suicidal ideation is thoughts of ending one's life but not taking any active efforts to do so., The Wedding at Cana (1563, also The Wedding Feast at Cana), by Paolo Veronese, is a representational painting that depicts the Bible story of the Marriage at Cana, a wedding banquet at which Jesus converts water to wine (John 2:111). The work is a large-format (6.77 m × 9.94 m) oil painting executed in the Mannerist style of the High Renaissance (14901527); as such, "The Wedding Feast at Cana" is the most expansive canvas (67.29 m) in the paintings collection of the Musée du Louvre., Mannerism is a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520, lasting until about 1580 in Italy, when the Baroque style began to replace it. Northern Mannerism continued into the early 17th century., Titus Livius (64 or 59 BCAD 17)known as Livy in Englishwas a Roman historian who wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people "Ab Urbe Condita Libri" ("Books from the Foundation of the City") covering the period from the earliest legends of Rome before the traditional foundation in 753 BC through the reign of Augustus in Livy's own time. He was on familiar terms with the Julio-Claudian dynasty, advising Augustus's grandnephew, the future emperor Claudius, as a young man not long before 14 AD in a letter to take up the writing of history. Livy and Augustus's wife, Livia, were from the same clan in different locations, although not related by blood., The Feast in the House of Levi or Christ in the House of Levi is a 1573 painting by Italian painter Paolo Veronese and one of the largest canvases of the 16th century, measuring . It is now in the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice. It was painted by Veronese for the rear wall of the refectory of the Basilica di Santi Giovanni e Paolo, a Dominican friary, as a "Last Supper", to replace an earlier work by Titian destroyed in the fire of 1571., Cinquecento ('five hundred'; short for "millecinquecento" '1500') was the Italian Renaissance of the 16th century, including the current styles of art, music, literature, and architecture. , History painting is a genre in painting defined by its subject matter rather than artistic style. History paintings usually depict a moment in a narrative story, rather than a specific and static subject, as in a portrait. The term is derived from the wider senses of the word "historia" in Latin and Italian, meaning "story" or "narrative", and essentially means "story painting". Most history paintings are not of scenes from history, especially paintings from before about 1850. In modern English, historical painting is sometimes used to describe the painting of scenes from history in its narrower sense, especially for 19th-century art, excluding religious, mythological and allegorical subjects, which are included in the broader term history painting, and before the 19th century were the most common subjects for history paintings. , Lucretia or Lucrece (died ) was an ancient Roman woman whose fate played a vital role in the transition of Roman government from the Roman Kingdom to the Roman Republic. While there were no contemporary sources, accounts from Roman historian Livy (Livius) and Greek-Roman historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus from the time of Emperor Caesar Augustus (23 September 63 BC 19 August 14 AD) agreed that there was such a woman and that her suicide after being raped by an Etruscan king's son was the immediate cause of the anti-monarchist rebellion that overthrew the monarchy., Subject: lucretia , Relation: inception, Options: (A) 1 (B) 14 (C) 1488 (D) 1490 (E) 1500 (F) 1518 (G) 1520 (H) 1527 (I) 1528 (J) 1563 (K) 1573 (L) 1576 (M) 1580 (N) 1594 (O) 17 (P) 1850 (Q) 19 (R) 1990 (S) 2013 (T) 27 (U) 30 (V) 59 (W) 60 (X) 7 (Y) 753 (Z) 9
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1580
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task074_squad1.1_question_generation
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task074-12dc7777533d4b91bc0670256d364fd0
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This task is about reading the given passage and construct a question about the information present in the passage. Construct a question in such a way that (i) it is unambiguous, (ii) it is answerable from the passage, (iii) its answer is unique (iv) its answer is a continuous text span from the paragraph. Avoid creating questions that (i) can be answered correctly without actually understanding the paragraph and (ii) uses same words or phrases given in the passage.
According to a 2014 study by the Pew Research Center, 57% of the population of the city identified themselves as Christians, with 25% professing attendance at a variety of churches that could be considered Protestant, and 29% professing Roman Catholic beliefs. while 33% claim no religious affiliation. The same study says that other religions (including Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, and Hinduism) collectively make up about 10% of the population.
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In 2014, what percentage of Bostons residents did not claim to belong to any religion?
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task389_torque_generate_temporal_question
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task389-a571a87d0b2642bfbbb78c1097e204c6
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In this task, a passage will be given and the goal is to generate a question about temporal relations based on that passage. A temporal relation describes the relation between two things with respect to time e.g., something happens/starts/terminates/... immediately/shortly/usually/... before/after/during/... something else.
Your question should include an event, or ask about an event, and should not be a yes/no question.
Passage: Tehran has allocated 120 million dollars to the Palestinian government for 2007, in addition to committing to pay the salaries of civil servants in three ministries for the coming six months, said Haniya, who has just made a four-day visit to the Islamic republic. Iran has also "adopted" 100,000 Palestinian workers, who will receive 100 dollars a month each for the next six months, a total of 60 million dollars.
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What event has already finished?
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task849_pubmedqa_answer_generation
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task849-98e878d5f5964b0c849c83a84035623e
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In this task, you are given a passage which has a question and the context. You have to generate an answer to the question based on the information present in the context.
Context: Intronic variation in the FTO (fat mass and obesity-associated) gene has been unequivocally associated with increased body mass index (BMI; in kg/m(2)) and the risk of obesity in populations of different ethnicity.', 'We examined whether this robust genetic predisposition to obesity can be attenuated by being more physically active.', 'The FTO variant rs1121980 was genotyped in 20,374 participants (39-79 y of age) from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition-Norfolk Study, an ethnically homogeneous population-based cohort. Physical activity (PA) was assessed with a validated self-reported questionnaire. The interaction between rs1121980 and PA on BMI and waist circumference (WC) was examined by including the interaction term in mixed-effect models.', 'We confirmed that the risk (T) allele of rs1121980 was significantly associated with BMI (0.31-unit increase per allele; P < 0.001) and WC (0.77-cm increase per allele; P < 0.001). The PA level attenuated the effect of rs1121980 on BMI and WC; ie, whereas in active individuals the risk allele increased BMI by 0.25 per allele, the increase in BMI was significantly (P for interaction = 0.004) more pronounced (76%) in inactive individuals (0.44 per risk allele). We observed similar effects for WC (P for interaction = 0.02): the risk allele increased WC by 1.04 cm per allele in inactive individuals but by only 0.64 cm in active individuals.\Question: Does physical activity attenuate the body mass index-increasing influence of genetic variation in the FTO gene?
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Our results showed that PA attenuates the effect of the FTO rs1121980 genotype on BMI and WC. This observation has important public health implications because we showed that a genetic susceptibility to obesity induced by FTO variation can be overcome, at least in part, by adopting a physically active lifestyle.
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task301_record_question_generation
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task301-2513b312887b4e658d5ffbefff1a794b
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In this task, you will be shown a passage. You need to write a fill-in-the-gap question based on your understanding of the events that might be inferred from the passage. Your question should be answerable based on the passage and only have one correct answer. Show the gap in your question with a _ .
So this is what it’s like to watch a team play aggressive, attractive, irresistible one-day cricket. This is what it’s like to watch England wake up to the realities of the modern game. Shout it from the rooftops: the penny has dropped. And how. Rightly ridiculed at the World Cup, England outplayed New Zealand so comprehensively that the record books could hardly keep up. Less than four months ago, the New Zealanders were humiliating Eoin Morgan’s team in Wellington, where England cemented their status as the tournament’s laughing-stock. Now, amid talk of a new era that could have been made to look premature, and even downright foolish, England thrashed 408 for nine after being put in to bat by Brendon McCullum, then romped to victory by a scarcely believable 210 runs. It was the one-day equivalent of a Test win by an innings.England defeated New Zealand at Edgbaston in the first of five ODIsHome side set record ODI score of 408-9 with Jos Buttler (129) and Joe Root (104) the highest scorersAdil Rashid and Steven Finn took four wickets apiece as the Kiwis were dismissed for 198
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_ finally fell for 129 from 77 deliveries, and it was left to Liam Plunkett in the last over to take England to 400 for the first time.
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task413_mickey_en_sentence_perturbation_generation
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task413-f5ffc325d53b47dea1692becaf1b2d6e
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Given a sentence, generate a new sentence by performing small changes on the sentence. Here, make sure that the changes are semantically related and syntactically similar to the input. And the generated sentence should have high commonsense plausibility, that is to have reasonable probability of it being true.
If you look to add the bills then you should have some money .
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If you want to inspect the bills then you should have some permission .
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task1291_multi_news_summarization
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task1291-8a81ed70f8bb47f6a417d18bce8683d7
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In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
An unidentified man just rushed the table where James and Rupert Murdoch were seated answering questions before a Parliament committee. He appeared to fling a white plate full of some sort of foam or cream at Rupert's face before being apprehended by security. As they grabbed him, Wendi Murdoch managed to get in a firm swat at the man's head. (On Twitter, a comedian and "activist" named Johnnie Marbles has claimed responsibility.) ||||| Tweet with a location
You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history. Learn more ||||| Select Committee hearings in the U.K.’s House of Commons rarely qualify as riveting television. But Tuesday’s affair, featuring News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch, had all the entertainment value of the media conglomerate’s best fare.
Besides Mr. Murdoch, the hearing featured his son James, who runs News Corp.’s international arm, as well as Rebekah Brooks, who until she stepped down Friday ran its U.K. newspaper division, including the recently closed tabloid at the heart of the scandal enveloping the company.
The hearing consisted of an informal succession of questions from members of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, which is made up of 10 members of Parliament from all three major parties. ||||| Editor's Note: Watch live coverage of Rupert Murdoch, James Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks answering questions before the British Parliament in the phone-hacking scandal on CNN.com/Live, the CNN apps for iPhone, iPad, Android and selected Nokia handsets internationally.
[Updated at 6:16 p.m. GMT, 2:16 p.m. ET] Bit of a twist at the end – and an intriguing cliffhanger request from Brooks.
At the end of her session, she asked that, when she is freed from legal constraints – remember, she has been arrested and bailed – she be invited back again to be questioned by the committee. Committee members said they were fine with that.
And with that, Brooks left the hearing.
[Updated at 6:16 p.m. GMT, 2:16 p.m. ET] "There’s a lot out there that is not true” Brooks says of claims in the UK media about her social relations with Prime Minister David Cameron and his family.
She also points out that she and her husband, Charlie, a famed race horse trainer and owner, do have a home close to Cameron in southern England. However, the former News International chief executive says she hasn’t been to Cameron’s official Downing Street residence, nor has she been horse riding with him.
[Updated at 6:14 p.m. GMT, 2:14 p.m. ET] Brooks, who appears well prepared for this inquisition, says she hopes that the truth about the whole phone-hacking scandal will be known as soon as possible and that those found culpable will be punished.
“A newsroom is based on trust,” she says. “You rely on the people that work for you to behave in a proper manner.”
[Updated at 6:12 p.m. GMT, 2:12 p.m. ET] To give Brooks her due, she is answering questions quite freely, despite the fact that she was arrested Sunday. She could easily claim more than she actually has that her answers might prejudice ongoing police investigations, for example.
She does have a lawyer by her side off camera, but he seems to be having a quiet time of it.
[Updated at 6:02 p.m. GMT, 2:02 p.m. ET] Brooks again says it’s "staggering to believe" staff at News of the World would have authorized the hacking of Milly Dowler’s phone.
"My instant reaction, like everybody else, was one of shock and disgust that a family who had suffered so much already, that these allegations clearly added immeasurably to their suffering," she said.
Lawmaker Therese Coffey then asks whether Brooks asked her reporters how they got information relating to that story. She replied that the phone hacking was "unknown to me."
[Updated at 5:54 p.m. GMT, 1:54 p.m. ET] The foam attack on Rupert Murdoch continues to reverberate. Filmmaker Jeff Reed told the Press Association: "I feel really let down. The Murdochs came here with the reasonable expectation of being protected. This was quite a juvenile prank, hitting someone with a paper plate of shaving foam.
"It's very undignified and undermines the whole democratic process. I thought it was quite self-defeating. The MPs were all truly shocked. Even some of Mr. Murdoch's most vociferous critics like Tom Watson - you could see the sheer disappointment of all their hard work being undone."
[Updated at 5:46 p.m. GMT, 1:46 p.m. ET] Brooks is repeating her allegation that her own phone was hacked by private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, who was jailed in 2007.
[Updated at 5:43 p.m. GMT, 1:43 p.m. ET] Turning to the issue of payments made to police officers, which has aroused almost as much outrage as phone hacking itself, Brooks attempts to clarify her comments in 2003 to a select committee in which she admitted paying officers in the past.
Brooks now says when she made her earlier comments she was referring to a "wide-held belief" that payments had been made in the past, and not to a "widespread practice."
"I can say that I have never paid a policeman myself. I have never sanctioned, knowingly sanctioned, a payment to a police officer," she said. "In my experience of dealing with the police, the information they give to newspapers comes free of charge."
[Updated at 5:41 p.m. GMT, 1:41p.m. ET] The committee is continuing to question Brooks about Milly Dowler’s phone being hacked. Brooks said that Dowler’s phone being hacked was the most shocking thing she had heard about journalists at News international.
To put this in context: The interest in the hacking of phones belonging to celebrities, politicians and other public figures had aroused interest – and denials – for several years. However, the anger aroused by the phone hacking of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler took revulsion to a new level – and is what has turned this issue into a crisis for the media, police and some politicians for the past few weeks.
Brooks has said she was on holiday during the Milly Dowler story but thinks Andy Coulson was editing while she was away. Coulson later became press chief for Prime Minister David Cameron but stood down this year as he said the interest in him over his role in alleged phone hacking had become too much of an issue.
[Updated at 5:35 p.m. GMT, 1:35 p.m. ET] Louise Mensch, a Conservative member of Parliament, has been grilling all three executives in addition to questioning comments made by Piers Morgan in his book about the tactic of phone hacking.
The New York Times has gone through the book and seems to be agreeing with Morgan's frustration about the allegations that he possibly knew or took part in phone hacking, based on what he wrote in the book.
"Mr. Morgan wrote that he suspected that he had been a victim of phone hacking, not that his newspaper had used the practice to get information," The New York Times notes in its live blog. "Mr. Morgan wrote that, at one stage, he was puzzled as to how other newspapers had obtained confidential information about him. In one entry in the diary, he wrote: 'I am mystified. But someone suggested today that people might be listening to my mobile messages. Apparently, if you don't change the standard security code that every phone comes with, then anyone can call your number and, if you don't answer, tap in the standard four digit code to hear your messages. I'll change mine just in case, but it makes me wonder how many public figures and celebrities are aware of this little trick.' "
[Updated at 5:30 p.m. GMT, 1:30 p.m. ET] Brooks says the hacking of murder victim Milly Dowler's phone – which sparked the outrage of the last few weeks - by News of the World was “abhorrent,” adding that the speed at which we've found things out has been too slow.
However, she says the company acted "quickly and decisively" in investigating the scandal after News International saw evidence in December 2010 that actress Sienna Miller’s phone was hacked.
Brooks says she promised that as soon as the company discovered the allegations about Milly Dowler, she promised the family that News International would get to the bottom of it.
[Updated at 5:23 p.m. GMT, 1:23 p.m. ET] Piers Morgan's name has been coming up frequently over the past few hours of questioning regarding the practice of phone hacking.
In response, the CNN journalist tweeted: (@piersmorgan): "To all reporters now chasing this MP's claim – the book is called The Insider: Private Diaries of a Scandalous Decade. Great read. #Murdoch."
He then responded to someone adding, along with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, that he will appear on the Situation Room on Tuesday night to discuss the issue.
[Updated at 5:19 p.m. GMT, 1:19 p.m. ET] A slight break from Brooks' questioning for some post-game on the Murdochs' job today from documentary maker Michael Cockerell on the way they ran their empire: "There has been an extraordinary disconnect going on for the past two and a half hours in terms of what we know of journalism, what we know of tabloid journalism, and this rather corporate-speak that's been going on."
"Rebekah Brooks knows more than anyone. She knows where the bodies are buried. She was editor of News of the World when Andy Coulson was her deputy. She then became editor of The Sun, she then became chief executive of News International. So she knows how journalism works," Cockerell told CNN. "And there was no sense in this meeting today of how journalism works on the front line and how it works as far as the editor is concerned - what the editor really knows of his or her staff is up to. Those kind of questions will need to be asked of Rebekah Brooks, but she may say that because she has been arrested, that because there is an ongoing police investigation, that she can't answer them as fully as she would like."
For those of you still debating whether it was thumbs-up or down for Rupert Murdoch, CNN's Jim Boulden has blogged about the session and says his perfromance showed him to be a "hands-off" CEO, but one who believes he was "the best person to clear this up."
[Updated at 5:17 p.m. GMT, 1:17 p.m. ET] Brooks is now discussing the close of the News of the World and why it shut.
“For the last few months, actually for the last few years, it had been leading the headlines for the wrong reasons," she said.
The decision to close the NOTW is moving into more sensitive territory for Brooks. Many journalists said it had been shut to defuse the crisis, and so Brooks did not have to resign – but she did, on Friday, less than a week later.
[Updated at 5:14 p.m. GMT, 1:14 p.m. ET] Committee member Lousie Mensch is switching to ask questions about the Daily Mail and the comment by its editor, Paul Dacre, that it had never published a story based on phone hacking.
For those of you outside the UK, the Daily Mail is a middle-market tabloid whose influence in many respects can be as strong as the Murdoch stable.
Brooks is saying she didn’t really see Dacre’s comments. But it's interesting that Mensch, who writes successful novesl as Louise Bagshawe, is broadening the questioning beyond News International.
[Updated at 5:12 p.m. GMT, 1:12 p.m. ET] Brooks admits it “seems extraordinary” that News International re-employed Jonathan Rees as a private investigator despite him being a convicted criminal. She admits that “it may be incredible” that as CEO, she didn’t know this, but “that’s the truth.”
[Updated at 5:10 p.m. GMT, 1:10 p.m. ET] Louise Mensch repeats her allegation that Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) admits in his book that he used phone-hacking while he was editor of News of the World.
The former editor, now a presenter on CNN, responds on Twitter that this is "complete nonsense. "I've never hacked a phone, told anyone to hack a phone, or published any stories based on the hacking of a phone."
Morgan then tweeted: "Ms. Mensch is completely and utterly wrong. She clearly hasn't read my book. Can someone please give her a copy?"
[Updated at 5:04 p.m. GMT, 1:04 p.m. ET] Brooks said it was “abhorrent” that the phone of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler was hacked by someone at the News of the World.
[Updated at 5:02 p.m. GMT, 1:02 p.m. ET] Lawmaker Tom Watson said he will be limited in his questioning because of police proceedings.
He asks Brooks whether she remembers authorizing payments to private detectives, such as Glenn Mulcaire, who was jailed in 2007 for hacking the phones of members of the royal family. She says the editor’s job was to manage the overall budget of the paper, while the managing editor authorized payments to individual departments. She says she cannot remember making individual payments to private detectives while she was editor of News of the World.
Watson, who did much forensic probing early in the Murdoch hearing, is looking at how much Brooks knew about the hiring of private investigator Jonathan Rees and repeatedly questioning how much she knew, saying that people might find it incredible that she did not know about their role.
“It may be incredible, but it is also the truth,” Brooks has replied.
[Updated at 4:55 p.m. GMT, 12:55 p.m. ET] Rebekah Brooks seems slightly more relaxed than the Murdochs, although it’s early into this hearing. She also seems less hesitant with her answers.
Possibly it’s because Brooks has been here before and appeared before this committee previously. Rupert Murdoch had not, although his son had.
Frankly, her hearing would be hard-pushed for an incident to surpass that which hit the Murdochs nearly an hour ago.
[Updated at 4:52 p.m. GMT, 12:52 p.m. ET] While Brooks continues to answer questions, we take a quick break for a post-game on the Murdochs' performance at the hearing.
Allyson L. Stewart-Allen, an international marketing and corporate diplomacy expert, told CNN: "If you look at all of the comments they made over the course of the past three hours, what comes out loud and clear to me are two executives who appear profoundly out of touch."
[Updated at 4:48 p.m. GMT, 12:48 p.m. ET] Brooks admits that what happened at News of the World was "pretty horrific."
Brooks, the former News International chief executive, says that "of course mistakes were made, but I think we acted quickly" after new information came to light, adding that she did not have the full picture of phone hacking from her staff.
[Updated at 4:44 p.m. GMT, 12:44 p.m. ET] Okay, Rebekah Brooks has started her testimony – 2 hours and 15 minutes after she was due to speak.
She is offering her own apologies at the start of her questioning. She states she was arrested and questioned several days ago and has legal representation so she does not impede those investigations but will try to answer questions as freely as she can.
Just a reminder that Brooks had emerged as one of the stars of UK tabloid journalism during the past 20 years and was the youngest ever editor of a national newspaper.
[Updated at 4:35 p.m. GMT, 12:35 p.m. ET] Testimony from Rupert Murdoch and his son James has concluded. Committee is in a short recess and will return to question former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks.
[Updated at 4:29 p.m. GMT, 12:29 p.m. ET] A popular retweet right now comes from New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller's wife.
Emma Gilbey Keller (@EMMAGKELLER) a contributor to Vanity Fair Daily tweeted to her husband: "@nytkeller If someone chucked a pie at you I would totally jump on top of them too."
[Updated at 4:29 p.m. GMT, 12:29 p.m. ET] Asked if Rupert Murdoch would still like to make a closing statement he begins to read the prepared remarks he had originally asked to open the hearing with. The committee had denied him that opportunity.
You can read the full statement here (PDF)
[Updated at 4:26 p.m. GMT, 12:26 p.m. ET] Asked by Louise Mensch if he has considered resigning as chief executive of News Corp, Rupert Murdoch says "No. People I trusted have let me down ... behaved disgracefully. I'm the best person to clear this up."
[Updated at 4:25 p.m. GMT, 12:25 p.m. ET] Committee member Tom Watson says to Rupert Murdoch: “Your wife has a very good left hook.”
That's in reference to one of the most bizarre incidents we can recall happening in the UK parliament.
[Updated at 4:20 p.m. GMT, 12:20 p.m. ET] Media law expert Geoffrey Robertson, a senior lawyer, tells CNN the strategy of the Murdochs "was clearly to let James do all the talking."
"The select committee did badly in cross-examination, they were feckless, they didn't get at much truth."
[Updated at 4:19 p.m. GMT, 12:19 p.m. ET] Murdoch issued a less categorical denial than that of his father Rupert that News Corp. reporters hacked into the phones of September 11, 2001 victims, saying he had no evidence of it and that it would have been totally unacceptable. Rupert Murdoch earlier told British lawmakers he did not believe it had happened.
[Updated at 4:16 p.m. GMT, 12:16 p.m. ET] In a committee room now cleared of members of the public and media, James Murdoch says he only became aware of the Milly Dowler allegations when they were reported in the press.
[Updated at 4:10 p.m. GMT, 12:10 p.m. ET] We're back up and running. Rupert Murdoch appearing in shirt sleeves, presumably because his jacket is covered in foam.
The hearing resumes, with lawmaker Louise Mensch saying her questioning will be just as robust as it would have been "before we were so rudely interrupted."
[Updated at 4:04 p.m. GMT, 12:04 p.m. ET] Rupert Murdoch was hit "squarely in the face" by the plate of shaving foam, reports CNN's Jonathan Wald, who was in the the hearing.
Wald added the man told Murdoch "you are a greedy billionaire." Police officers wiped foam off the man's face at Portcullis House, where the hearing is taking place.
[Updated at 4:02 p.m. GMT, 12:02 p.m. ET] CNN's Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) tweets: "Wendi just stole all the headlines. That idiot protester, allowed in by MPs, has single-handedly won the day's PR for the Murdochs."
[Updated at 4:01 p.m. GMT, 12:01 p.m. ET] Video footage shows Rupert Murdoch's wife, Wendi Deng, lunging towards attacker.
[Updated at 3:58 p.m. GMT, 11:58 a.m. ET] Press Association reports that Rupert Murdoch was pelted with a white substance in the attack. Reuters said it was a "white plate with foam."
TV pictures show police detaining a man wearing a checked shirt with what appears to be paint splashed across his face and clothes.
[Updated at 3:54 p.m. GMT, 11:54 a.m. ET] Hearing temporarily suspended as protester apparently lunges towards the Murdochs.
James Murdoch rises to his feet to move out of the way of the protester.
[Updated at 3:52 p.m. GMT, 11:52 a.m. ET] Rupert Murdoch says people cannot expect total privacy in a transparent society. Referring to the recent scandal about lawmakers’ expenses, he says that one solution may be to pay them higher salaries like their counterparts in Singapore who he says are paid $1 million. One of the lawmakers suggests the proposal may not go down that well in Britain.
Rupert Murdoch said it was right for newspapers to campaign to change the law but never to break it. His voice breaking slightly, he cited the example of his father “who was not rich but was a great journalist.” He says his father Keith exposed the scandal of the World War I battle at Gallipoli “which I’m very very proud of. I would love to see my sons and daughters follow him.”
[Updated at 3:45 p.m. GMT, 11:45 a.m. ET] Lots of commentary coming on from Twitter on what's being dubbed "James-speak." A sampling of the chatter:
Washington Post media blogger Erik Wemple (@ErikWemple) tweeted: James Murdoch–most classic use of passive voice ever in Parliament: "To my knoweldge, certain things were not known."
The Guardian's data journalist and a self-proclaimed "ex-Wikileaker" (@jamesrbuk) tweeted: "I'm glad you asked about that" – James Murdoch's catchphrase today."
And Richard Allen Greene (@RAGreeneCNN) of CNN Wires who is contributing to CNN.com’s main story on the phone-hacking hearings tweets: “James #Murdoch has a tendency to tell MPs if he thinks their questions are good or not. Can anyone see how MPs are reacting?”
[Updated at 3:42 p.m. GMT, 11:42 a.m. ET] Rupert Murdoch avoids commenting on whether editors knew about the illegal activities of some News of the World reporters, because he does not want to jeopardize various inquiries being conducted. However he says Les Hinton appointed Colin Myler as editor in 2007 to “find out what the hell is going on” at the paper.
Asked if the management of News International deliberately kept him in the dark over the hacking, the firm’s founder replies: “I may have been lax but it was such a small part of our business.”
[Updated at 3:35 p.m. GMT, 11:35 a.m. ET] The website of Murdoch’s tabloid Sun newspaper, which was attacked by hackers overnight (they posted a report claiming Murdoch had been found dead), is back online. It carries a very matter-of-fact four-paragraph report that the hearing is taking place.
There’s more coverage on the website of Murdoch’s broadsheet Times of London, but this is hidden behind a paywall.
[Updated at 3:31 p.m. GMT, 11:31 a.m. ET] James Murdoch says evidence that phone hacking extended beyond Clive Goodman and Glenn Mulcaire only became apparent as result of later civil actions. Before then,News of the World editor Colin Myler and lawyer Tom Crone advised him, he says, to settle cases with out-of-court payments to victims, because there was no evidence of wider illegality.
"The police as well had closed their case and said there is no new evidence here," he said.
However in 2010 new evidence was presented from civil trials, James Murdoch says, which indicated “the circle was wider than the two individuals.”
However lawmaker Paul Farrelly strikes back, saying that evidence was sitting in their own files.
[Updated at 3:15 p.m. GMT, 11:15 a.m. ET] James Murdoch admits News International paid the legal fees of private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, who was jailed in 2007 along with News of the World royal editor Clive Goodman, and says he was shocked to find this out.
When a lawmaker suggests the payment was designed to buy the silence of a phone hacker, James replies that he can understand why someone would infer this.
[Updated at 3:14 p.m. GMT, 11:14 a.m. ET] Not everyone is finding Murdoch & Murdoch’s testimony gripping. CNN’s Dan Rivers (@danieljerivers) says at least one member of the audience has dozed off.
“Can't believe 1 member of public fell asleep! This is riveting!”
There’ll be plenty of people upset about this, given the number of people turned away from the hearing after lining up for hours.
[Updated at 3:05 p.m. GMT, 11:05 a.m. ET] Rupert Murdoch says both News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks and her predecessor Les Hinton – his right-hand man for 52 years - will have received "considerable" compensation following their resignation, but the details are confidential.
When asked why he did not accept Brooks' resignation earlier Rupert replies: "Because I trusted her." Eventually he did accept it "because she was in anguish."
[Updated at 3:01 p.m. GMT, 11:01 a.m. ET] Both Murdochs are being pressed on who paid disgraced former royal editor Clive Goodman's legal fees when he was on trial for hacking the phones of members of the royal family.
Murdoch Junior says he doesn't know the details; Murdoch Senior says it “could have been” former News International chief executive Les Hinton, a man Rupert says “he would trust with his life,” who authorized the payout.
[Updated at 2:59 p.m. GMT, 10:59 a.m. ET] Laura Rozen, a senior foreign policy reporter for Yahoo News, has a few thoughts on James Murdoch's style today. She tweets (@lrozen): Someone should advise James Murdoch to talk less. the more he talks with that agentless managementese, more annoying he seems"
[Updated at 2:56 p.m. GMT, 10:56 a.m. ET] Our correspondent Dan Rivers (@danieljerivers) who is watching proceedings, tweets: "James Murdoch seems badly prepared his father totally unaware of what's been going on. Awkward silences and repeated denials."
[Updated at 2:52 p.m. GMT, 10:52 a.m. ET] Looks like the questioning of Rupert and James Murdoch is going to run well over schedule. Former News International executive Rebekah Brooks was slated to appear at 2:30 p.m. GMT, 10:30 a.m. ET, but that has clearly been pushed back.
The interviewing panel are clearly relishing their chance to put the world’s most powerful media baron on the spot and aren’t wrapping it up in a hurry.
This is interesting given the reluctance to attend this hearing initially shown by both Murdochs. Both originally said they were too busy, relenting only after they were threatened with a parliamentary summons.
[Updated at 2:52 p.m. GMT, 10:52 a.m. ET] CNN’s Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) tweets that when he was editor of News of the World, “Rupert called me every week for 18ms on News of the World – rarely asked about anything but what stories we had that week.”
[Updated at 2:48 p.m. GMT, 10:48 a.m. ET] Rupert Murdoch says he wouldn't expect to be told in conversations about payouts to victims of phone-hacking in amounts of hundreds of thousands of pounds. Murdoch Senior says conversations would often be just talking about the sports pages.
[Updated at 2:45 p.m. GMT, 10:45 a.m. ET] Rupert Murdoch says he seldom rang the editor of News of the World, sometimes on a Saturday night to find out "what the news was." He says he rang the Sunday Times editor almost every Saturday.
He adds: "I'm not really in touch."
[Updated at 2:42 p.m. GMT, 10:42 a.m. ET] James Murdoch said he and his father were advised to "fundamentally tell the truth at the hearing and to be as open and transparent as possible."
[Updated at 2:40 p.m. GMT, 10:40 a.m. ET] Pressed to admit that a News Corp. out-of-court settlement with English soccer executive Gordon Taylor was for "illegal activity," James Murdoch conceded the point Tuesday to British lawmakers probing phone hacking by the disgraced Sunday tabloid News of the World.
[Updated at 2:37 p.m. GMT, 10:37 a.m. ET] CNN’s Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan), who once worked as a journalist for one of Murdoch’s papers, has this to say about the News Corp chief’s habit of pounding the table to make his point in answer to questions.
He tweets: "Nothing unusual in Rupert's desk-whacking, He did that in every meeting I ever had with him. To convey both pleasure & displeasure #Murdoch"
[Updated at 2:35 p.m. GMT, 10:35 a.m. ET] More on current Twitter trends: According to twitscoop.com: Murdoch-related terms seem to be dominating the social networking tool at the moment. At 14:20 GMT it’s list includes: Murdoch, Rupert, and James. “Humble,” also features, a reference to Rupert Murdoch’s earlier statement (1:38 p.m. GMT, 9:38 a.m. ET), as does “Burns” for reasons stated in an earlier post about the Simpsons.
[Updated at 2:33 p.m. GMT, 10:33 a.m. ET] Remember that statement the Murdoch father and son wanted to read before they began answering questions? That request was denied by lawmakers but the statement has been released to the media. They had planned, in part, to begin this way:
"My son and I have come here with great respect for all of you, for Parliament and for the people of Britain whom you represent."
"This is the most humble day of my career. After all that has happened, I know we need to be here today. Before going further, James and I would like to say how sorry we are for what has happened - especially with regard to listening to the voicemail of victims of crime."
Read the full statement here (PDF)
[Updated at 2:30 p.m. GMT, 10:30 a.m. ET] Asked whether the scandal will make you think about how you approach your headlines in the future, Rupert Murdoch replies: "I'm not aware of any transgressions. We have a wonderful variety of voices. I'm sure there are some headlines that give offense but it's not intentional."
[Updated at 2:23 p.m. GMT, 10:23 a.m. ET] It would be remiss of us not to mention the numerous Twitter comments comparing Rupert and James Murdoch and two characters from the Simpsons cartoon: scheming nuclear power station boss Montgomery Burns and his craven assistant Smithers.
Mark Borkowski (@MarkBorkowski), a UK-based public relations expert, remarks: “Murdoch is playing the beffudled Mr Burns figure #PR #Genius”
A colleague also points out that #Smithers is among items trending on Twitter.
[Updated at 2:19 p.m. GMT, 10:19 a.m. ET] Rupert Murdoch denied feeling responsible for illegal phone hacking carried out by his employees, answering a British lawmaker's question simply: "No."
James Murdoch has "no knowledge" that any News Corp. companies are the subject of investigations by the UK's Serious Fraud Office or other regulators, he told British lawmakers investigating phone hacking on Tuesday.
[Updated at 2:16 p.m. GMT, 10:16 a.m. ET] Media critic, new-media columnist for The Guardian in London and professor Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) tweets: "Murdoch calls this a "hysteria" and competitive conspiracy to stop him from getting BSkyB. Wow! Dementia."
[Updated at 2:15 p.m. GMT, 10:15 a.m. ET] Rupert Murdoch says he is not ultimately responsible for "this fiasco" despite being responsible - the lawmakers remind him - for corporate governance. He blames "the people I trusted and the people they trusted."
[Updated at 2:14 p.m. GMT, 10:14 a.m. ET] Rupert Murdoch says he has seen "no evidence" that victims of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks in the United States were victims of phone hacking by his employees and does not believe it happened.
[Updated at 2:13 p.m. GMT, 10:13 a.m. ET] Rupert Murdoch says David Cameron asked him to visit the prime minister’s official residence 10 Downing Street after the last general election to thank him for his support. He went in the back door, saying “I did what I was told.”
[Updated at 2:12 p.m. GMT, 10:12 a.m. ET] Ian Katz, deputy editor of The Guardian, (@iankatz1000) tweeted: "The greatest puzzle watching this is how Rupert Murdoch has run a $40bn so successfully for so long."
[Updated at 2:04 p.m. GMT, 10:04 a.m. ET] Lawmaker Tom Watson asks when Rupert Murdoch discovered that criminality was endemic at News of the World. Rupert replies: “Endemic” is a very wide ranging word he says, but “he became aware as it became apparent.”
He says he was "absolutely shocked, appalled and ashamed when I heard about the Milly Dowler case only two weeks ago." He added that “I was graciously received” by the Dowler family last week.
Watson asks whether anyone at News International passed on to him that parliamentarians had accused individuals at the company of being guilty of “collective amnesia.” Rupert admits no one brought it to his attention, adding, “What you're really saying is that they lied."
Watson also asks when Murdoch learned that the company’s claim that there was only “one rogue reporter” was not true. Rupert says after a long pause: “I forget. Mr Watson, we have given all our files to the police.”
Asked why the company closed News of the World, Rupert says forcefully: “We are ashamed of what had happened and felt we should bring it to a close. We had broken our trust with our readers.”
[Updated at 2:00 p.m. GMT, 10:00 a.m. ET] Rupert Murdoch's performance under questioning is drawing comments on twitter (and, unless we’re mistaken, eye-rolling from James Murdoch).
Armando Ianucci (@aianucci) an Oscar-winning satirist, compares his delivery to that of befuddled contestants on a popular British TV quiz show. “You know that bit in Celebrity Mastermind when the celeb goes completely blank on their specialist subject? Like that, but not for charity.”
[Updated at 1:59 p.m. GMT, 9:59 a.m. ET]A Freelance reporter for the Independent, @RichardHall, tweets: "Can't imagine Rupert Murdoch has ever been spoken to like this before. Fascinating stuff. #hackgate"
[Updated at 1:57 p.m. GMT, 9:57 a.m. ET] Rupert Murdoch, taking long pauses, says no one has brought to his attention the fact that Neville Thurlbeck, a senior News of the World reporter, had been found guilty of trying to blackmail women.
He also says he did not investigate after former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks said the newspaper paid police, says he was "misled."
Murdoch added he has "no knowledge" that former News Corp. senior officials Rebekah Brooks and Les Hinton knew of the extent of phone hacking at the News of the World tabloid and he has "no evidence" they did anything wrong.
[Updated at 1:56 p.m. GMT, 9:56 a.m. ET] It’s early in the trading day, but worth noting that News Corp, which has seen its share value slide in recent weeks, has opened up compared to the previous day. The opening price is $15.40, compared to the previous day’s close of $14.97. The price is still well down on the $18 highs seen at the beginning of July when the phone hacking scandal began gathering steam.
[Updated at 1:52 p.m. GMT, 9:52 a.m. ET] New York Times media reporter Brian Stelter tweets a comment about Rupert Murdoch's answer about his company - one many expected Murdoch would say during this hearing.
@brianstelter: "Is Rupert Murdoch using the we're-a-really-big-company defense?"
[Updated at 1:52 p.m. GMT, 9:52 a.m. ET] Rupert Murdoch asks to say something. Thumping the table repeatedly, he says News of the World is only 1% of his company; he employs 53,000 people around the world and he has to rely on their integrity.
[Updated at 1:50 p.m. GMT, 9:50 a.m. ET] The direct hearing on the phone hacking, which saw senior police figures testifying, has ended.
[Updated at 1:49 p.m. GMT, 9:49 a.m. ET] Aside from Rupert Murdoch’s remarkable interruption, James seems to be doing most of the talking so far. It’s also worth mentioning that Rupert’s wife Wendi Deng is sitting visibly front-and-center on the benches behind James and his father.
[Updated at 1:48 p.m. GMT, 9:48 a.m. ET] Asked why News International executives said at previous appearances before select committees that there was no evidence of illegality, James Murdoch says the company relied on a police investigation in 2007 and subsequent inquiries. He says he can’t say exactly what they knew, but key facts only emerged from civil trials at end of 2010.
Asked who else was involved with phone hacking at News of the World, James says a number of investigations are going on, and he can’t comment further. He says News International has established a group within company that is cooperating with the police.
[Updated at 1:38 p.m. GMT, 9:38 a.m. ET] Rupert Murdoch interrupts his son who is apologizing for the illegal phone-hacking, to say: "This is the most humble day of my life."
[Updated at 1:36 p.m. GMT, 9:36 a.m. ET] Now to the main event. James Murdoch sitting alongside his father Rupert asks to read out a statement, but chairman John Whittingdale refuses.
[Updated at 1:28 p.m. GMT, 9:28 a.m. ET] Dan Rivers has managed to get into the committee room where the Murdochs will be grilled. No more tweets allowed," he writes.
[Updated at 1:27 p.m. GMT, 9:27 a.m. ET] It appears we may have a bit of overlapping between the two hearings, but we'll be watching both. We'll bring you continued coverage of comments from outgoing Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner John Yates as well as the beginning of coverage of testimony in the second hearing. That hearing, before the Commons Culture, Media and Sport committee, will focus on testimony from Rupert Murdoch, James Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks.
[Updated at 1:26 p.m. GMT, 9:26 a.m. ET] Yates has been defending his 2009 review of the phone hacking investigation which recommended that no further action was needed. Asked whether his eight-hour perusal of 11,000 documents was sufficient, he said it was.
“You can criticize me with hindsight," he said. "It was a reasonably sophisticated process."
[Updated at 1:21 p.m. GMT, 9:21 a.m. ET] As anticipation builds for the day’s main attraction – the questioning of Rupert Murdoch - Dan Rivers (@danieljerivers) tweets that some members of the public have been lining up since 5:30 a.m. this morning to get a seat at in the gallery.
[Updated at 1:19 p.m. GMT, 9:19 a.m. ET] As with Stephenson before him, Yates’ answers have brought up the police force’s relationship with Downing Street – which is a key element when considering the scandal’s potential to taint the current government.
Yates said he had offered to brief the prime minister’s chief of staff over the “nuances” of the phone-hacking affair in September 2010. He said the offer was rejected.
Earlier Stephenson spoke about being warned by a Downing Street official that directly briefing Prime Minister David Cameron about Neil Wallis could compromise the Conservative leader’s integrity. He was later unable to put a name to this official.
[Updated at 1:10 p.m. GMT, 9:10 a.m. ET] The questioning has turned once again to the subject of former News of the World executive Neil Wallis. Yates said he asked Neil Wallis if there was anything that could embarrass the Met before he was hired.
Asked about what role he played in the Met’s hiring of Wallis’s daughter, he said: “The met employs people all the time. I had absolutely nothing to do with her employment…” He added that he was merely “a postbox” for her resume.
Yates says he met Wallis two or three times a year since they first met in 2000 - mostly they had "sport-related" meetings.
"Don't get the impression we're bosom buddies, forever round each other's houses," he said.
[Updated at 1:02 p.m. GMT, 9:02 a.m. ET] Outgoing Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner John Yates is facing the panel now. Explaining why he resigned yesterday over the scandal he said he wanted to “stand up and be counted.”
He added: “I’ve done nothing wrong, my integrity is intact and my conscience is clear.”
[Updated at 1:01 p.m. GMT, 9:01 a.m. ET] Keith Vaz thanks Fedorcio for coming in, but adds “I’m not sure we’re any clearer now than we were at the beginning.”
[Updated at 12:56 p.m. GMT, 8:56 a.m. ET] Fedorcio faces detailed questioning on why he asked Yates to perform a “due diligence” check on former News of the World executive Wallis.
He says he asked him to carry out the checks because he knew he had investigating phone hacking; asked by the panel if he knew Wallis and Yates had been close friends since 1998, he says did not.
Repeatedly Fedorcio says: “I had no reason to doubt Mr. Yates’s integrity.”
[Updated at 12:53 p.m. GMT, 8:53 a.m. ET] More from CNN’s Dan Rivers (@danieljerivers) outside the inquiry. He writes: “Just seen Rebekah Brooks in Portcullis House smiling and looking confident.”
[Updated at 12:43 p.m. GMT, 8:43 a.m. ET] A bit of post-match analysis on Stephenson from former Metropolitan Police Commander John O’Connor. He says Stephenson “held his end very well.” The MPs were looking for a smoking gun, or evidence of doing favors for News International, but they found no such evidence, O’Connor told CNN's Richard Quest.
Stephenson accepted his position as top cop was untenable after it was revealed he accepted $19,000 worth of hospitality from Champneys as it would have implied there was one rule for him and another for ordinary police officers. O’Connor said Stephenson emerged as a “man of great integrity.”
O’Connor said he believed some people will ultimately find themselves in the dock over the scandal and some of them will go to jail.
[Updated at 12:39 p.m. GMT, 8:39 a.m. ET] Dick Fedorcio, the Metropolitan police’s director of public affairs, has wasted no time in pointing an accusing finger at John Yates.
Fedorcio says he was told by Yates that employing former News of the World executive Neil Wallis would not embarrass the police force.
[Updated at 12:31 p.m. GMT, 8:31 a.m. ET] Stephenson has wrapped things up after an hour and a half with a closing statement in which he praised his police colleagues as “decent hard-working professionals” and sought to clarify the circumstances of his departure.
“I’m not leaving because I was pushed” he said.
He sounded slightly morbid speaking his colleague John Yates. “We’re the poorer for his passing,” he said.
FYI: Yates, a former assistant police commissioner who blocked an investigation into phone hacking, is very much alive since resigning over the scandal yesterday. He’s up for a grilling later.
[Updated at 12:27 p.m. GMT, 8:27 a.m. ET] CNN’s Jonathan Wald (@jonathanwaldcnn) is tweeting that the arrival of Associate editor of the Independent Jemima Khan, one of the more glamorous figures in the phone hacking scandal, is causing excitement outside the hearing.
“Flurry amongst the paparazzi around the queue for the #Murdochs & #Brooks hearing as #Jemima #Khan enters the building.”
[Updated at 12:23 p.m. GMT, 8:23 a.m. ET] Press Association reports that a small but noisy group of protesters wearing Rupert Murdoch and David Cameron masks are making their presence felt outside the hearing. One held a placard with "smash Murdoch's evil empire" written on it.
[Updated at 12:22 p.m. GMT, 8:22 a.m. ET] Looks like we’re already running over schedule, which means that the earlier listing timings for the first hearing have been thrown to the wind. We could end up with the day’s two inquiries running simultaneously, but attention will certainly be focused on the Murdochs and Rebekah Brooks.
[Updated at 12:17 p.m. GMT, 8:17 a.m. ET] Pop star George Michael (@georgemichael) has been tweeting about the scandal. He's had his private life delved into many times by the Murdoch press, and has had frequent run-ins with the law.
He just tweeted: "A lot of really decent policemen and women must be watching this scandal in utter horror. They have more right to their anger than you and I."
[Updated at 12:11 p.m. GMT, 8:11 a.m. ET] A bit of apparent buck-passing from Stephenson over the original phone-hacking investigation. He said he asked John Yates, another senior police figure who will be questioned later today, to look into the matter and accepted Yates’ finding that the original investigation was successful, despite the fact he reviewed evidence for just eight hours.
[Updated at 12:04 p.m. GMT, 8:04 a.m. ET] The panel is now asking questions about why an initial investigation in 2009 concluded that the phone hacking issue was not pursued further by the Metropolitan police.
Stephenson said there was "no reason whatsoever to think that there was anything wrong with the initial investigation."
[Updated at 12:00 p.m. GMT, 8:00 a.m. ET] The questions are now focusing on Stephenson’s 2009 meetings with the editor of the Guardian newspaper – which has broken many of the stories about the phone-hacking scandal. Stephenson has been accused of trying to persuade editor Alan Rusbridger to back off.
Stephenson said he was acting on information available to him at the time. He said he told the paper that the claims about phone hacking they were making were “nothing new.”
“I didn’t put pressure to lay off,” he said, adding that the meetings were not made at the advice of News of the World executive Neil Wallis.
[Updated at 11:51 a.m. GMT, 7:51 a.m. ET] We’re back to discussing News of the World executive Neil Wallis. Stephenson is being grilled on why Wallis was given a contract as a police media adviser when the Metropolitan police had dozens of press officers.
Stephenson said: “With the benefit of what we know now I’m happy to go on the record that I regret that contract, it’s embarrassing.”
[Updated at 11:47 a.m. GMT, 7:47 a.m. ET] Explaining his frequent dinner dates, Stephenson said this was proportionate to News International’s dominance of the British media.
[Updated at 11:41 a.m. GMT, 7:41 a.m. ET] Stephenson’s dietary habits are now under scrutiny. He’s being asked to explain why he had 18 lunches or dinners with News of the World executives and “seven or eight dinners” with executive Neil Wallis over a five year period.
He said it was important to improve relations between the Metropolitan police and the media.
[Updated at 11:38 a.m. GMT, 7:38 a.m. ET] The questioning has moved on to Stephenson’s acceptance of a free stay (worth $19,000) at a health spa named Champneys, which has links to News of the World executive Neil Wallis – this is the key reason for his resignation.
Stephenson is insisting he had no knowledge that Wallis was connected to Champneys. He says his stay was a legitimate part of rehabilitation from injury.
“I was recovering from a serious illness… wheelchair-bound… concentrating on getting back to work,” he said.
He adds: “The owner of Champneys is a family friend… I paid for many treatments. It was damnably unlucky Wallis was connected to this.”
[Updated at 11:34 a.m. GMT, 7:34 a.m. ET] A moment of levity caused by what was perhaps a Freudian slip of the tongue from former police commissioner Stephenson: “When I took over as prime minister….,” he said before correcting himself.
[Updated at 11:30 a.m. GMT, 7:30 a.m. ET] Stephenson is trying hard to explain his links to Neil Wallis, the News of the World executive. Earlier he said he had no reason to suspect Wallis was linked to phone hacking. He said he first became aware of a connection in January 2011.
“Prior to that I had no reason for concern," he said.
He said he was advised by a Downing Street official not to tell David Cameron about his links to Wallis so as not to compromise the prime minister.
[Updated at 11:25 a.m. GMT, 7:25 a.m. ET] Talking about the arrest of Rebekah Brooks, the former News of the World editor, Stephenson said he was aware the arrest was going to take place up to two days prior to the event. Brooks’ spokesman on Sunday told CNN she herself was unaware she was going to be arrested.
[Updated at 11:17 a.m. GMT, 7:17 a.m. ET] Stephenson is answering questions about whether he intended to launch a personal attack on Prime Minister David Cameron when he made his resignation statement on July 17.
In that statement Stephenson made reference to Cameron’s links to Andy Coulson, a former News of the World editor hired by the prime minister as a media adviser.
Stephenson insists no personal attack was intended. He rejected accusations that he implied Cameron’s integrity had been compromised.
[Updated at 11:15 a.m. GMT, 7:15 a.m. ET] Stephenson says he is not apologetic about claims he accepted hospitality from Neil Wallis, the former News of the World executive. He also said the mayor of London and Britain’s home secretary, Theresa May, accepted his resignation with regret.
"The decision was mine and mine alone" he said.
[Updated at 11:09 a.m. GMT, 7:09 a.m. ET] Former commissioner of the Metropolitan police Paul Stephenson is explaining why he resigned.
He says he was trying to remove himself from the story. He said he wanted to stand down well ahead of the 2012 London Olympics to avoid becoming a distraction. “We are in extraordinary times,” he says.
[Updated at 11:07 a.m. GMT, 7:07 a.m. ET] And we’re off. Paul Stephenson is first up before the hearing of the U.K. parliament’s home affairs select committee. Stephenson resigned on Sunday over his links to a former executive editor of the News of the World.
Keith Vaz, who will be leading the questioning the chairman of the hearing, has started by declaring an interest. He said that he was invited to a News International summer party, but did not attend.
[Updated at 11:00 a.m. GMT, 7:00 a.m. ET] CNN’s Dan Rivers has Tweeted a photograph @danrivers of the line to get into the hearings, which are open to the public. Demand for seats for the appearances of the Murdochs and Brooks is expected to be heavy.
[Updated at 10:48 GMT, 6:48 a.m. ET] Before we delve into the main event, here’s a few useful links to get you all caught up:
CNN.com’s main story on today’s phone hacking-related developments can be found here. And here’s some useful background material to help you wrap your head around the key players at the center of the scandal: Press baron Rupert Murdoch, his son, CEO of News International and an executive at News Corp. James Murdoch and former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks.
For a look back at how all this started, check out our timeline of the key events in the phone-hacking scandal.
[Updated at 10:32 GMT, 6:32 a.m. ET] We'll get started with a rundown of who will be at the hearings today. There are two sessions. The first is a direct hearing on the phone hacking, which will see senior police figures give evidence. The second is a standing government committee, to which senior News Corp. figures have been called to face questions.
First up at 11:00 a.m GMT, 7:00 a.m. ET is Paul Stephenson, who resigned as commissioner of London’s Metropolitan police force at the weekend because of the phone hacking scandal. At 11:45 a.m., GMT, 7:45 a.m. ET we have Dick Fedorcio, the director of public affairs at the Met. At 12.15 p.m. GMT, 8:15 a.m. ET we have John Yates, who resigned on Monday as assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan police, again as a result of the phone hacking scandal.
The second session, a hearing of the U.K. parliament’s culture committee, is the main attraction of the day. At 1:30 p.m. GMT, 9:30 a.m. ET Rupert Murdoch and his son James Murdoch are due to face questions. At 2:30 p.m. GMT, 10:30 a.m. ET we have Rebekah Brooks, the former editor of the News of the World newspaper that was at the epicenter of the scandal.
They are expected followed by, Lord MacDonald, a former director of public prosecutions at 4:30 p.m. GMT, 12:30 p.m. ET; Keir Starmer, current director of public prosecutions at 5:00 p.m. GMT, 1:00 p.m. ET and then at 5:20 p.m. GMT, 1:20 p.m. ET we have Mark Lewis, the legal representative of the Dowler family, whose murdered daughter’s phone was targeted by hackers.
[Posted at 10:17 GMT, 6:10 a.m. ET] News Corp founder Rupert Murdoch, his son James and former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks are due to testify Tuesday before British lawmakers investigating the phone-hacking scandal.
Lawmakers on the before the Commons Culture, Media and Sport committee will want to know what the Murdoch family knew - and when - about the alleged illegal interception of telephone messages of individuals ranging from celebrities and politicians to murder victims and the families of those killed in terror attacks and wars.
Murdoch is engaged in a frantic damage limitation exercise after it was alleged that News of the World had hacked into the phone of Milly Dowler, a teenager who was murdered. The allegation sparked fury in Britain; News International bosses, politicians and police have been trying to defuse the anger ever since.
We'll be live-blogging the hearings from start to finish here. |||||
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A little drama toward the end of the Rupert Murdoch hearing today: A protester lunged forward with something like a plate of shaving cream and tried to smear the News Corp chief. Murdoch's wife, Wendi Deng, jumped up to defend her 80-year-old husband from the attack, notes the Wall Street Journal live blog. Looks like she even clocked the assailant on the head, adds the Daily Dish coverage. The hearing was suspended for about 10 minutes, and the protester taken into custody. CNN says Murdoch got hit in the face by the foam, and he finished the hearing sans jacket. A comedian and self-described "activist" named Jonnie Marbles claimed responsibility for the foamy assault on Twitter with a pre-attack tweet, notes the Daily Intel blog. He apparently shouted something along the lines of Murdoch being a greedy billionaire when he came forward during the hearing.
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In this task, you will be presented with a passage, and you need to write an **implausible** answer to to fill in the place of "_". Your answer should be incorrect, but should not be out of context. Try using words that are related to the context of the passage, but are not the correct answer. Even though there exist multiple wrong answers, we only need a single wrong answer.
A renowned comedy writer who penned jokes for comedians including Jack Dee, James Corden and Sarah Millican gassed himself in his car following a long battle with depression. Bafta award-winning writer Jim Pullin, who wrote for shows including Have I got News For You and Eight Out Of 10 Cats and was executive producer of Corden’s sports panel show A League of Their Own, was found dead near a fishing lake this year. The father of three, who started his career with Not The Nine O'Clock News in the 80s, had a long history of depression and was on anti-depressants at the time, his GP told the inquest.Jim Pullin started long career with Not The Nine O'Clock News in the 1980sAlso wrote for 8 Out Of 10 Cats and won Bafta for A League Of Their OwnWent to a fishing lake and gassed himself in his black Audi after argumentHe had a long history of depression and was on medication, inquest heard
Question:Police officers were led to the lake complex by Mrs Pullin where Mr _ used to fish, by his wife, with his body then being found in his car.
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The task is to generate the correct answer for a given math problem.
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In this task, you are given an answer, and your task is to generate a reasonable question for that answer.
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In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Irvine, Calif., Jan. 23, 2015 – UC Irvine and Australian chemists have figured out how to unboil egg whites – an innovation that could dramatically reduce costs for cancer treatments, food production and other segments of the $160 billion global biotechnology industry, according to findings published today in the journal ChemBioChem.
“Yes, we have invented a way to unboil a hen egg,” said Gregory Weiss, UCI professor of chemistry and molecular biology & biochemistry. “In our paper, we describe a device for pulling apart tangled proteins and allowing them to refold. We start with egg whites boiled for 20 minutes at 90 degrees Celsius and return a key protein in the egg to working order.”
Like many researchers, he has struggled to efficiently produce or recycle valuable molecular proteins that have a wide range of applications but which frequently “misfold” into structurally incorrect shapes when they are formed, rendering them useless.
“It’s not so much that we’re interested in processing the eggs; that’s just demonstrating how powerful this process is,” Weiss said. “The real problem is there are lots of cases of gummy proteins that you spend way too much time scraping off your test tubes, and you want some means of recovering that material.”
But older methods are expensive and time-consuming: The equivalent of dialysis at the molecular level must be done for about four days. “The new process takes minutes,” Weiss noted. “It speeds things up by a factor of thousands.”
To re-create a clear protein known as lysozyme once an egg has been boiled, he and his colleagues add a urea substance that chews away at the whites, liquefying the solid material. That’s half the process; at the molecular level, protein bits are still balled up into unusable masses. The scientists then employ a vortex fluid device, a high-powered machine designed by Professor Colin Raston’s laboratory at South Australia’s Flinders University. Shear stress within thin, microfluidic films is applied to those tiny pieces, forcing them back into untangled, proper form.
“This method … could transform industrial and research production of proteins,” the researchers write in ChemBioChem.
For example, pharmaceutical companies currently create cancer antibodies in expensive hamster ovary cells that do not often misfold proteins. The ability to quickly and cheaply re-form common proteins from yeast or E. coli bacteria could potentially streamline protein manufacturing and make cancer treatments more affordable. Industrial cheese makers, farmers and others who use recombinant proteins could also achieve more bang for their buck.
UCI has filed for a patent on the work, and its Office of Technology Alliances is working with interested commercial partners.
Besides Weiss and Raston, the paper’s authors are Tom Yuan, Joshua Smith, Stephan Kudlacek, Mariam Iftikhar, Tivoli Olsen, William Brown, Kaitlin Pugliese and Sameeran Kunche of UCI, as well as Callum Ormonde of the University of Western Australia. The research was supported by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (grant R01 GM100700-01) and the Australian Research Council (grants DP1092810 and DP130100066).
Media contact: Janet Wilson, Writer – janethw@uci.edu
About the University of California, Irvine: Founded in 1965, UCI is the youngest member of the prestigious Association of American Universities. The campus has produced three Nobel laureates and is known for its academic achievement, premier research, innovation and anteater mascot. Led by Chancellor Howard Gillman, UCI has more than 30,000 students and offers 192 degree programs. Located in one of the world’s safest and most economically vibrant communities, it’s Orange County’s second-largest employer, contributing $4.8 billion annually to the local economy.
Media access: Radio programs/stations may, for a fee, use an on-campus ISDN line to interview UC Irvine faculty and experts, subject to availability and university approval. For more UC Irvine news, visit news.uci.edu. Additional resources for journalists may be found at communications.uci.edu/for-journalists. ||||| The Fast Money crew take their positions and provide their outlook on next week's busy earnings week.
As anyone who has ever cooked an egg knows, egg "whites" are clear until they are cooked. Egg whites are high in protein, and when they cook, the proteins start to unfold, and then fold back up in a tighter, more tangled structure. This is why they go from being clear and mucus-like to white and rubbery.
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine, and Flinders University in Australia have figured out a process that can pull apart the tangled proteins, allowing them to refold and return to their original structure.
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The team used an egg to demonstrate the process, but scientists use all kinds of proteins in laboratory research that tangle and fold in similar ways during experiments—and they spend a great deal of time trying to untangle them into usable proteins.
Other methods for untangling proteins are already available, but they take days to work. The new method takes minutes, speeding the process up by a factor of thousands, according to the report.
First, the team used a substance that liquefied the cooked egg white, and then used a machine called a vortex fluidic device, developed by Colin Raston and his colleagues at Flinders, which caused the tangled protein molecules to shear and refold normally.
"I can't predict how much money it will save, but I can say this will save a ton of time, and time is money," said Gregory Weiss, UCI professor of chemistry and molecular biology & biochemistry in an interview with CNBC. ||||| Hervé This is on a mission. 'By the time I die, I want cooking to have changed,' he says. In his native France, Hervé This (pronounced 'Tiss') is a star, the country's most famous chemist. He appears on TV and radio, his books are bestsellers, government ministers ring him for advice and there is a travelling exhibition based on his work.
In this country, one of Hervé's biggest fans is Heston Blumenthal, with whom Hervé, 51, has worked on several experiments. 'So much of cooking is mystique,' Blumenthal says. 'That way, it makes chefs look like geniuses. But the more we can explain, the more approachable it becomes. That's how food will move forward and Hervé has turned many things on their head.'
His specialism is the science of cooking. For him, every foodstuff is 'a chemical mixture'. 'When aromatic compounds are formed on the surface of a roast,they are the result of a chemical reaction. When mushrooms turn black after being chopped, it is the fruit of a chemical reaction.'
Over the years, his musings on chemical reactions have led to a number of discoveries. He has worked out how to uncook an egg. He has calculated that you can produce 24 litres of mayonnaise with a single yolk. He has invented a Béarnaise sauce by replacing butter with melted chocolate, as well as 'chocolate chantilly' (a form of whipped chocolate prepared in the same way as crème chantilly). He's baked an egg for an hour at 55°C, managing somehow to leave the yolk 'exceptionally smooth and tender'.
Almost 10 years ago, Hervé investigated colloids (substances that are neither completely solid nor liquid, such as emulsions, mousses and gels) and devised a system of formulae based on the dispersion of gases, liquids and solids within each other.
'It can be used to invent an infinite number of dishes,' he claims. He told Pierre Gagnaire, one of France's leading chefs, about his find, and the chef came up with a new recipe called Saint-Jacques 'Faraday' - an emulsion created with scallops, orange-flavoured oil, smoked tea and gelatine. Every month Hervé sends Gagnaire an idea from his lab which the chef incorporates into a recipe. (A collection of them is posted on Gagnaire's website.)
Hervé has taught at the universities of Tours and Montpellier, and has his own laboratory at the venerable Collège de France, which, today, is also the base for all four of France's living Nobel prize winners. One of them, Jean-Marie Lehn, invited Hervé to join his department in 1995. In Hervé's laboratory, there is a cupboard full of chemical compounds such as sulphuric acid, sodium carbonate and Mercurochrome, while the shelves are stacked with things you'd normally associate with the kitchen: bottles of balsamic vinegar and olive oil, pots of mustard and cinnamon, bags of salt and shallots, and a bar of chocolate. There are also piles of notebooks, in which he notes down his experiments, as well as literary sayings and advice he comes across.
'I go through ancient recipe books, preferably from the 18th and 19th centuries, jot down what they have to say and test it,' he says. He says that Madame de Saint-Ange (who wrote the bible of bourgeoise cuisine in 1927) is a mine of sayings, but that much of her advice is incorrect. More exact are Le Livre de Cuisine by Jules Gouffé (first published in 1867) and Auguste Escoffier's Guide Culinaire. 'Some of Escoffier's advice is startlingly sound,' says Hervé. He recommended, for example, that pepper be added to a stock only eight minutes before it is taken off the heat. The explanation, Hervé has discovered, is that further cooking means the more desirable, spicy aromatic molecules volatilise and are replaced by bitter tannins.
'There is no limit to Hervé's curiosity,' says the three-Michelin-starred chef, Antoine Westermann. He arrives at his lab at 7:30am and works non-stop. Once, during his summer holidays, he wrote three books, taking breaks only to play ping-pong with his two sons. For those in the profession, however, he makes himself far more available. 'He doesn't work for financial gain,' says Gagnaire. 'Simply to transmit his knowledge.' According to American Vogue's food critic, Jeffrey Steingarten, Hervé has the tools to do so: 'He's an exciting lecturer. He talks fast and loud, cracks jokes and is quite a showman. He has the audience in the palm of his hand.'
On the morning of our second meeting, Hervé measures the pressure inside a chip. He's aiming to disprove a famous scientific paper which states that oil infiltrates chips during cooking. He heats oil to 168°C, measures a chip, hooks it up to a manometer and plunges it in the oil. Unfortunately, the experiment goes wrong and ends up with the chip falling to the bottom of the pan. He is unconcerned. 'In order to come up with conclusive results, I'll have to carry it out 100 times.'
He then shows me several other experiments. There is a jar full of pears and a few bits of tin. There is a quail's egg that has been standing in vinegar for three years. The acid has attacked its shell and made it translucent. By osmosis, it has swelled up to about four times its original size. Hervé says that it has the same consistency as a hard-boiled egg and could be eaten in a salad.
But what really intrigues me, of course, is exactly how he managed to unboil an egg. He explains that when an egg is cooked, the protein molecules unroll themselves, link up and enclose the water molecules. In order to 'uncook' the egg, you need to detach the protein molecules from each other. By adding a product like sodium borohydride, the egg becomes liquid within three hours. For those who want to try it at home, vitamin C also does the trick.
While the discovery may be fun, it does not have many practical applications (most of us prefer our eggs both cooked and flavoured with salt rather than strange chemicals). Many of his other results, however, can be applied to everyday cooking. He says that adding oil to water while cooking spaghetti does not prevent the different strands from sticking together - unless you use very little water and litres of oil. He advises that, in order for a poached or fried egg white to be evenly cooked, you should sprinkle a little salt around the yolk (it speeds up the cooking of a protein found there, which coagulates less easily than the other proteins in the egg white). The discovery he is proudest of, however, concerns meat stews. 'For many centuries, so much rubbish was written about them.' One tradition said that you should start off cooking the meat in cold water. Another claimed the opposite. According to Hervé, it makes no difference. The meat loses the same amount of weight in both cases.
Hervé, who has written seven bestselling books, grew up in a family of gourmets. Whenever they went skiing in the Alps, they would stop to eat at Paul Bocuse. On a boating holiday one summer, he invented 27 different recipes for mackerel. At the age of six, he was given his first chemistry set. 'I was always doing strange experiments at home,' he says. 'My brother still recalls with despair how I once distilled violets for Mother's Day.' Later, he went on to study at the prestigious Ecole de Physique-Chimie in Paris and also managed to do a French literature degree at the same time. On graduation in 1980, he joined Pour La Science (the French edition of Scientific American). He would stay there for 20 years as a scientific adviser.
His experiments in food began in the spring of 1980 when he tried to make a Roquefort soufflé from a recipe in Elle, which stated that you had to add the eggs two by two. Hervé decided to ignore the advice and put all the eggs in at the same time. His soufflé was a flop. The following week, he had another go, this time adding the eggs one by one. The result was better, but not as good as when he made yet another soufflé, this time following the recipe to the letter. It got him thinking about the scientific reasons for adding the eggs two by two.
Over the years, he says, his sons have eaten some 400 soufflés. I join him and his wife, Pascale, a cancer doctor, for dinner, at their house near Versailles, for a meal full of his inventions. The starter is tomate royale, a sort of barely-set quiche. And the main course, salmon en croûte is accompanied by an unidentifiable pile of vegetables. 'It's an emulsion of chestnuts', says Hervé The food is hugely variable. The salmon scrumptious, the dessert disgusting.
Hervé believes his originality lies in the fact that he applies his knowledge of chemistry to the food of ordinary people, while other scientists work in the food industry. 'Food science,' he says, 'has never dealt with cooking. It doesn't give a damn about soufflés and stews.'
Still, he's had precursors, notably the Hungarian-born, Oxford-based physicist Nicholas Kurti, who in 1969 gave a lecture at the Royal Institute called The Physicist in the Kitchen. Hervé first met Kurti in 1988. It was, he says, 'a friendly case of love at first sight'. They ended up working on experiments together.
By his own admission, Hervé's relations with chefs are 'very friendly, but very complicated'. Philippe Conticini has elaborated a menu for Petrossian in Paris based around Hervé's work on 'frothy emulsions'. There is his regular monthly link-up with Pierre Gagnaire; Alain Passard says he has one of Hervé's books constantly on his desk. 'It's a real education,' he says. 'He teaches us things we could never have suspected.'
Even the government has been won over. Former French Minister of Education, Jack Lang, introduced La Casserole des Enfants into schools and Hervé came up with a list of 10 different experiments that could be carried out by primary- school children.
Blumenthal believes Hervé is a true radical. 'If anyone is going to change the way we cook, it will be him,' he says. |||||
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Want to unboil an egg? Probably not, but researchers in the US and Australia have found a way to do so with a primary ingredient from pee, Popular Science reports. "Yes, we have invented a way to unboil a hen egg," biochemist Gregory Weiss says in a statement. "In our paper, we describe a device for pulling apart tangled proteins and allowing them to refold." In practical terms, they boiled eggs at 194 degrees Fahrenheit for 20 minutes to make sure they were fully cooked. As usual with boiled eggs, the protein-rich egg whites began unfolding, then folded back together in a firmer way—going from "clear and mucus-like to white and rubbery," CNBC reports. The researchers then untangled those proteins by adding urea, a primary ingredient in urine. Finally, the now-liquid proteins went into a "vortex fluid device," a machine that reconnects them so they appear uncooked. To what end, exactly? Well, this process can be used to remove gummy proteins from laboratory test tubes (a time-consuming process, apparently). More importantly, Weiss says it can quickly produce antibodies for a particular cancer treatment; the antibodies attach to cancer cells' proteins, which enables the immune system to wipe them out. If egg-uncooking per se is your thing, the Guardian reports, a French chemist did it by detaching the egg's protein molecules and adding sodium borohydride or vitamin C. But while this "may be fun, it does not have many practical applications," the Guardian says. (In other food science, there's a new pill that's "like an imaginary meal.")
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task568_circa_question_generation
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task568-182c81817c0d41f4acc648c7d4c2b991
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In this task, you are given an answer, and your task is to generate a reasonable question for that answer.
I don't watch any anime, so I'm not familiar with the music.
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Do you like anime music?
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task311_race_question_generation
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task311-4693f480d7a54186bb62fdcce77afe6b
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In this task, you're given an article and an answer. Your task is to generate the question for the answer based on the given article.
Article: Trends come and go but style is eternal. So what is the latest fashion trend that defines this season? Let's take a look at the fashion trend in 2016 and be the first ones to embrace the latest trend. Head----It seems like everyone will be wearing a bucket hat this season. Bucket hat might sound a bit old-fashioned for some people, but the 90s trend is in season again! Spring and summer are always the seasons for casual clothes, so pairing the bucket hat with casual shorts or skirts would be your outfit to go in this spring and summer in 2016. Bottom--Summer is the season when everyone gets ready for the humid weather. The current season trend is making everyone have a more comfortable summer because wide-leg bottoms is in trend again. Perhaps not everyone likes wide-leg bottoms because this could possible make people look shorter, choosing a high-waist wide-leg bottom and matching it with crop top will definitely make you look taller and trendy in 2016. Dress---Be prepared for embracing the feminine details this season. Ruffles around the sleeve or ruffles all-over the dress will be everyone's favorite in SS 2016. All these little details will transform your look in season. Simple colors like pink and black are designer's favorites in this season too. Shoes---Many people thought wedges are also the shoes to go in spring and summer time, but in SS 2016, very flat flats are in trend again. Shoe designers are trying to have more combinations flats or low-heels with less of gender identity. Accessories----No outfit goes perfect without accessories. Adding statement accessories to your simple and natural outlook this summer is your day-to-night outfit. These jewels are doing to make you feel completed in day time and sparkled at night.
Answer: Lawyers
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What kind of people will benefit a lot more from this passage?
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task586_amazonfood_polarity_classification
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task586-c959990edb394bb2bc1b7bae8ab0bff9
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You are given a review of Amazon's food products. Your task is to divide them into two classes: negative or positive, depending on the content of the review.
The Salt free version has a very acidic taste that melts when in contact with your mouth. Just my two cents ...
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Negative
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task521_trivia_question_classification
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task521-1109b7667f8543fe9a32cf981cf41172
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In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.
This ruler faced a scandal when Amy Robsart, the wife of Robert Dudley, died by falling down some stairs. This ruler was dubbed a "servant of crime" and excommunicated in the papal bull Regnans in Excelsis, a response to the passage of the Second Act of Supremacy. Anthony Babington's plan to assassinate this ruler was uncovered by spymaster Francis Walsingham. This ruler ordered the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots and sent Francis Drake to defeat the Spanish Armada. For 10 points, name this Tudor monarch, the "Virgin Queen" of England.
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History
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task205_remove_even_elements
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task205-bb98d26145b24693b2b6ce3ca42d3665
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In this task you will be given a list of numbers. A list is shown by two brackets and comma-separated numbers inside, like: [1,2,3]. You should remove all of the even numbers from the list. If every number in the input list is even an empty list should be returned. Zero should be counted as an even number.
[129, 66, 173, 41, 168, 64, 187, 83]
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[129, 173, 41, 187, 83]
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task615_moviesqa_answer_generation
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task615-6f02294de8ea473ba3f0d02c099998c5
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You are given an open-domain question from an open movie database. Your task is to provide an answer to that question. Try to only include the answer. Do not put it in a sentence.
who acted in Dracula Untold?
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Dominic Cooper, Sarah Gadon, Luke Evans, Art Parkinson
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task475_yelp_polarity_classification
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task475-52383fce13b54c38864dc86b1ad857bc
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In this task, you are given Yelp reviews. The task is to classify a review as "POSITIVE" if the overall sentiment of the review is positive or as "NEGATIVE" if the overall sentiment of the review is negative.
Not worth the money. Lamb rack too sweet, too much alcohol in obster chowder. This is what happens when there's over crowded people in the restaurant that quality suffers.
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NEGATIVE
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task1609_xquad_en_question_generation
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task1609-e976da3cd95f4261b89051a9e7db6787
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Given a paragraph, your job is to generate a question that can be answered from the passage. The answer to your question should be a single entity, person, time, etc. that can be extracted from the passage.
In the early 1970s, ABC completed its transition to color; the decade as a whole would mark a turning point for ABC, as it began to pass CBS and NBC in the ratings to become the first place network. It also began to use behavioral and demographic data to better determine what types of sponsors to sell advertising slots to and provide programming that would appeal towards certain audiences. ABC's gains in audience share were greatly helped by the fact that several smaller markets had grown large enough to allow full-time affiliations from all three networks.
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The 1970s allowed which network to move in to first place in the ratings?
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task897_freebase_qa_topic_question_generation
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task897-94f7c8cff4ec49faaad476369c88f52a
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Given an open-ended topic (movie name, a persons name, an event, sports, etc) generate a simple trivia-type question.
glasgow airport
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Which British city is served by 'Abbotsinch Airport'?
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task430_senteval_subject_count
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task430-376c35acce574b65b5bea00fd194250d
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In this task you are given a sentence. You must judge whether subject of the main clause is singular or plural. Label the instances as "Singular" or "Plural" based on your judgment.
" Where will the master receive them ? "
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Singular
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task390_torque_text_span_selection
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task390-d8fd11cc0f854a37a4a40a99e524bf76
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In this task, you will be given a passage, a question and a list of single-word events identified from the passage. The goal is to point out all events from the given event list that can answer the question. If a question is unanswerable or none of the events answer the question, output should be empty.
Passage: But he was followed by a 32-year-old off-duty police officer and three other male passengers who tackled him on the platform. The man lost consciousness and died later in the day in a nearby hospital, a police spokesman said. Question: What happened before died? Events: ['followed', 'tackled', 'lost', 'died', 'said']
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followed
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task605_find_the_longest_common_subsequence_in_two_lists
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task605-1d3c7294a43b4dfa9386bf2b31c1803f
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In this task, you are given two lists A,B. Find the longest common subsequence in the lists A and B.
[8007, 9091, 87, '2737', 'g', 'X', 'A', 7755], [4453, 2139, '2737', 'g', 'X', 'I', 6081]
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2737, g, X
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task353_casino_classification_negotiation_elicit_pref
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task353-914aae8a2e174440a9c85f12b12da315
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The input is taken from a negotiation between two participants who take the role of campsite neighbors and negotiate for Food, Water, and Firewood packages, based on their individual preferences and requirements. Given an utterance and recent dialogue context containing past 3 utterances (wherever available), output Yes if the utterance contains the elicit-pref strategy, otherwise output No. elicit-pref is a cooperative negotiation strategy. It is used to discover the preference order of the opponent in the negotiation.
Context: 'I'm looking forward to my camping trip! What are you trying to collect for your trip?'
Utterance: 'Me too! It will be great to finally get out of town for a few days. I mostly need more firewood to keep the wife nice and toasty. How about you?'
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Yes
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task279_stereoset_classification_stereotype
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task279-05ff38fa478a4f11a1dc20aaf24a9ff2
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In this task, you are given a short passage that may convey stereotype, anti-stereotype, or is unrelated. A stereotype is an over-generalized belief about a particular group of people. An anti-stereotype is an idea that goes against a common stereotype. The passage is unrelated if it does not convey a stereotype or anti-stereotype. You are expected to classify the passage into three classes: stereotype, anti-stereotype, and unrelated.
Passage: Morocco is a country. They are all Muslim.
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Stereotype
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task909_dialogre_prevalent_speakers
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task909-b1214fcd48d14a0da6a1b03363f91f30
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You are given a dialog between 2 or more individuals. You need to generate the number of the speaker (e.g. 1 for Speaker 1) who had the most lines in the dialog. If there is a tie, output the answer '0'.
Speaker 1: Hey Erica, c'mon in.
Speaker 2: How did you get here so fast, I just saw you in Salem?
Speaker 1: Right, they uh, they choppered me in. What's up?
Speaker 2: Ohh, and I see you're having a little party too. Is she here, huh, huh?
Speaker 1: Who?
Speaker 2: Sabrina. I know about you two. I saw you today kissing in the doctor's lounge.
Speaker 1: It's not what you think, that was...
Speaker 2: You told me I was the only one.
Speaker 1: Alright look, that's it. I don't think we should see each other anymore, alright. Look, I know I should have told you this a long time ago but I am not Drake Remore, OK. I'm not even a doctor, I'm an actor. I just pretend to be a doctor.
Speaker 2: Oh my God. Do the people at the hospital know about this?
Speaker 1: Somebody wanna help me out here?
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1
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task286_olid_offense_judgment
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task286-c012373b32754a8d9da38e6bb5e49dea
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In this task you are given a tweet and you must identify whether the tweet contains any offense or any form of (untargeted) profanity. Label the post as NOT if the post does not contain offense or profanity. Non-offensive posts do not include any form of offense or profanity. label the post as OFFENSIVE if the post contains offensive language or a targeted (veiled or direct) offense. Twitter user mentions were substituted by @USER and URLs have been substitute by URL.
@USER He is nuts who would have ever imagined that the US would have concentration camps......he is the devil
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OFFENSIVE
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task1703_ljspeech_textmodification
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task1703-92a6a264e2334e22a0201124a5a1ff17
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The task is reading a paragraph containing numbers as digits. The digits can be used to represent Quantity, Dates and Time, Addresses or Positions. Convert the digits into their text equivalents. If a number has a prefix, postfix or punctuation preserve it in the text equivalent. 100000 is translated as hundred thousand, Roman numerals are also translated. If multiple numbers are present convert all instances.
who had fraudulent warrants out of their own to the extent of £150,000, suspended payment and absconded.
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who had fraudulent warrants out of their own to the extent of one hundred fifty thousand pounds, suspended payment and absconded.
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task668_extreme_abstract_summarization
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task668-8340c181423c4299a6e0e520fb66a188
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In this task, you are given the abstract of a research paper. Your task is to generate a summary of this abstract. Your summary should not be very short, but it's better if it's not more than 30 words.
A capsule is a group of neurons whose outputs represent different properties of the same entity. Each layer in a capsule network contains many capsules. We describe a version of capsules in which each capsule has a logistic unit to represent the presence of an entity and a 4x4 matrix which could learn to represent the relationship between that entity and the viewer (the pose). A capsule in one layer votes for the pose matrix of many different capsules in the layer above by multiplying its own pose matrix by trainable viewpoint-invariant transformation matrices that could learn to represent part-whole relationships. Each of these votes is weighted by an assignment coefficient. These coefficients are iteratively updated for each image using the Expectation-Maximization algorithm such that the output of each capsule is routed to a capsule in the layer above that receives a cluster of similar votes. The transformation matrices are trained discriminatively by backpropagating through the unrolled iterations of EM between each pair of adjacent capsule layers. On the smallNORB benchmark, capsules reduce the number of test errors by 45\% compared to the state-of-the-art. Capsules also show far more resistance to white box adversarial attacks than our baseline convolutional neural network.
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Capsule networks with learned pose matrices and EM routing improves state of the art classification on smallNORB, improves generalizability to new view points, and white box adversarial robustness.
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task385_socialiqa_incorrect_answer_generation
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task385-7b5128ed9ce44bcf86b8633dde578249
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In this task, you're given a context passage, a question, and three answer options. Your task is to return an incorrect answer option to the question from the choices given. For all questions, only one of the three answer options is correct. Pick one of the two incorrect answer options as the output.
Context: Tracy attained the end of the song there where it was not supposed to end.
Question: How would you describe Tracy?
Options: (A) attentive (B) not very musical (C) happy
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C
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task1296_wiki_hop_question_answering
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task1296-6e5091a8cdc04a7e8a85f9d079b8883b
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In this task, you are given a context, a subject, a relation, and many options. Based on the context, from the options select the object entity that has the given relation with the subject. Answer with text (not indexes).
Context: In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm is a self-contained sequence of actions to be performed. Algorithms perform calculation, data processing, and/or automated reasoning tasks., Programming paradigms are a way to classify programming languages according to the style of computer programming. Features of various programming languages determine which programming paradigms they belong to; as a result, some languages fall into only one paradigm, while others fall into multiple paradigms. Some paradigms are concerned mainly with implications for the execution model of the language, such as allowing side effects, or whether the sequence of operations is defined by the execution model. Other paradigms are concerned mainly with the way that code is organized, such as grouping code into units along with the state that is modified by the code. Yet others are concerned mainly with the style of syntax and grammar., Computer software, or simply software, is that part of a computer system that consists of encoded information or computer instructions, in contrast to the physical hardware from which the system is built., Computer programming (often shortened to programming) is a process that leads from an original formulation of a computing problem to executable computer programs. Programming involves activities such as analysis, developing understanding, generating algorithms, verification of requirements of algorithms including their correctness and resources consumption, and implementation (commonly referred to as coding) of algorithms in a target programming language. Source code is written in one or more programming languages. The purpose of programming is to find a sequence of instructions that will automate performing a specific task or solving a given problem. The process of programming thus often requires expertise in many different subjects, including knowledge of the application domain, specialized algorithms, and formal logic. , A computer is a device that can be instructed to carry out an arbitrary set of arithmetic or logical operations automatically. The ability of computers to follow a sequence of operations, called a "program", make computers very flexible and useful. Such computers are used as control systems for a very wide variety of industrial and consumer devices. This includes simple special purpose devices like microwave ovens and remote controls, factory devices such as industrial robots and computer assisted design, but also in general purpose devices like personal computers and mobile devices such as smartphones. The Internet is run on computers and it connects millions of other computers., Computer science is the study of the theory, experimentation, and engineering that form the basis for the design and use of computers. It is the scientific and practical approach to computation and its applications and the systematic study of the feasibility, structure, expression, and mechanization of the methodical procedures (or algorithms) that underlie the acquisition, representation, processing, storage, communication of, and access to information. An alternate, more succinct definition of computer science is the study of automating algorithmic processes that scale. A computer scientist specializes in the theory of computation and the design of computational systems., Information is that which informs. In other words, it is the answer to a question of some kind. It is thus related to data and knowledge, as data represents values attributed to parameters, and knowledge signifies understanding of real things or abstract concepts. As it regards data, the information's existence is not necessarily coupled to an observer (it exists beyond an event horizon, for example), while in the case of knowledge, the information requires a cognitive observer., Computer engineering is a discipline that integrates several fields of electrical engineering and computer science required to develop computer hardware and software. Computer engineers usually have training in electronic engineering (or electrical engineering), software design, and hardware-software integration instead of only software engineering or electronic engineering. Computer engineers are involved in many hardware and software aspects of computing, from the design of individual microcontrollers, microprocessors, personal computers, and supercomputers, to circuit design. This field of engineering not only focuses on how computer systems themselves work, but also how they integrate into the larger picture., Engineering is the application of mathematics and scientific, economic, social, and practical knowledge in order to invent, innovate, design, build, maintain, research, and improve structures, machines, tools, systems, components, materials, processes, solutions, and organizations., Computing is any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating a mathematical sequence of steps known as an algorithm e.g. through computers. Computing includes designing, developing and building hardware and software systems; processing, structuring, and managing various kinds of information; doing scientific research on and with computers; making computer systems behave intelligently; and creating and using communications and entertainment media. The field of computing includes computer engineering, software engineering, computer science, information systems, and information technology., Software engineering (SWE) is the application of engineering to the development of software in a systematic method., A programming language is a formal computer language designed to communicate instructions to a machine, particularly a computer. Programming languages can be used to create programs to control the behavior of a machine or to express algorithms., In computing , reactive programming is a programming paradigm oriented around data flows and the propagation of change . This means that it should be possible to express static or dynamic data flows with ease in the programming languages used , and that the underlying execution model will automatically propagate changes through the data flow . For example , in an imperative programming setting , a : = b + c would mean that a is being assigned the result of b + c in the instant the expression is evaluated , and later , the values of b and c can be changed with no effect on the value of a. However , in reactive programming , the value of a would be automatically updated based on the new values , the opposite of functional programming . A modern spreadsheet program is an example of reactive programming . Spreadsheet cells can contain literal values , or formulas such as `` = B1 + C1 '' that are evaluated based on other cells . Whenever the value of the other cells change , the value of the formula is automatically updated . Another example is a hardware description language such as Verilog . In this case , reactive programming allows changes to be modeled as they propagate through a circuit . Reactive programming has foremost been proposed as a way to simplify the creation of interactive user interfaces , animations in real time systems , but is essentially a general programming paradigm . For example , in a Model - view - controller architecture , reactive programming can allow changes in the underlying model to automatically be reflected in the view , and vice versa ., A software engineer is a person who applies the principles of software engineering to the design, development, maintenance, testing, and evaluation of the software and systems that make computers or anything containing software work., Subject: reactive programming, Relation: subclass_of, Options: (A) ability (B) algorithm (C) analysis (D) application (E) building (F) case (G) code (H) computer (I) computer hardware (J) computer language (K) computer programming (L) computer science (M) computing (N) data (O) device (P) domain (Q) electronic engineering (R) engineer (S) engineering (T) information (U) knowledge (V) language (W) mathematics (X) method (Y) model (Z) order ([) out (\) person (]) process (^) programming language (_) reasoning (`) representation (a) research (b) scale (c) science (d) scientist (e) sequence (f) software (g) software engineering (h) storage (i) structure (j) study (k) style (l) technology (m) theory (n) training
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computer programming
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task1310_amazonreview_rating_classification
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task1310-36cf393354b2452aa1a6249833afe6c5
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In this task, you're given a review from Amazon. Your task is to generate a rating for the product on a scale of 1-5 based on the review. The rating means 1: extremely poor, 2: poor, 3: neutral, 4: good, 5: extremely good.
Have taken these for years, but they have changed them now - taste and smell terrible. They melt, even when in the fridge. Called company and was told I could return them to any Walmart, since the brand is carried there...Walmart refused to honor the return, because they were ordered through Amazon.
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2
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task024_cosmosqa_answer_generation
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task024-daee2d3b26b8490f92eb24c976eab82c
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Craft one correct answer to the question given in input. To make it more interesting, try to use non-stereotypical language if possible. Make sure your correct answer is reasonably long, consistent with the context, and requires common sense (instead of explicit extraction from the context.) In your answer, use as few words as possible from the given context. Use a response that is uncommon/non-stereotypical, so that it is less predictable. To be less repetitive, please vary your language for each question.
Context: I tagged along with Mike and his friend Stu to Ophir yesterday . After waiting around for an hour , Grizz ( a large but friendly man ) showed up and let us into the Emma Mine as far as the shaft ... He would n't come along himself because he 's claustrophobic . He told us he does n't want anybody going back without Tyler ( a man who is much like a son to him , from what I heard ) because of liability issues .
Question: Why was Grizz not with the group ?
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Grizz does not like close quarters .
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task066_timetravel_binary_consistency_classification
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task066-4817c68dcb604d36b62d678a9a5fa019
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In this task, you are given a short story consisting of exactly 5 sentences where the second sentence is missing. You are given a candidate for the second sentence and you need to identify if the given sentence connects the first sentence with the rest of the story. Indicate your answer by "Yes" if it connects, otherwise "No". Do not generate anything else apart from "Yes" or "No". The given sentence is incorrect if it changes the subsequent storyline, so that at least one of the three subsequent sentences form a consistent story.
Sentence 1: Don decided to take an afternoon nap.
Sentence 3: By the time he woke up it was already night
Sentence 4: He decided to stay in bed
Sentence 5: And just slept all the way until the next morning
Given Sentence 2: He didn't set an alarm.
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Yes
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task227_clariq_classification
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task227-3478acf3958e432cb3d18ada409b21da
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In this task, you are given an ambiguous question/query (which can be answered in more than one way) and a clarification statement to understand the query more precisely. Your task to classify that if the given clarification accurately clarifies the given query or not and based on that provide 'Yes' or 'No'.
Query: What is California Franchise Tax Board
Clarification: do you want to know if dieting is safe
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No
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task301_record_question_generation
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task301-4513517a04ff4ba2ad0ad2e8653a9f8d
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In this task, you will be shown a passage. You need to write a fill-in-the-gap question based on your understanding of the events that might be inferred from the passage. Your question should be answerable based on the passage and only have one correct answer. Show the gap in your question with a _ .
When Army Sgt. Patrick Hart decided a decade ago that he would not serve in the war in Iraq, he expected to follow the same path as thousands of American war resisters during the Vietnam era and take refuge across the border. But after five years of wrangling with the Canadian immigration system, he came back to the U.S. - and ended up in a military prison. The country that once welcomed war resisters has developed a much different reputation during the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan: Supporters say no U.S. soldier who has sought legal residence in Canada, either as a refugee or on humanitarian grounds, has been successful.Supporters say no U.S. soldier who has sought legal residence in Canada, either as a refugee or on humanitarian grounds, has been successfulThere are an estimated two dozen U.S. military members still waiting out their fate in CanadaThe resisters' movement is seen as nearing a crossroads
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Government guidance issued to immigration officers in 2010 requires them to consult supervisors on U.S. military cases and spells out that desertion is a crime that may render those who've left the military as criminally inadmissible to _.
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task1551_every_ith_element_from_kth_element
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task1551-de239c0a16da4d2d83aefd922f753029
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In this task, you are given inputs k, i, and A, where k and i are integers and A is a list. You need to find every ith element of A starting from the kth element. The process stops when the position of the next ith element exceeds the length of the list.
2, 10, ['1143', 'L', 'f', 'i', 'X', 'Z', 'r', 't', '2149', '5441', '5793', '2307', 'D', 'C', '8215', 'H', 'u', '2487', '6451', 'D', '2977', 'E', '7975', 's', '6289']
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L, 2307, E
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task400_paws_paraphrase_classification
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task400-f8ad368a7af44604862f2a464ef6e314
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In this task you are given a sentence pair from wikipedia that have high lexical overlap. If the sentences have the same meaning and are just paraphrases of each other label them as "Paraphrase" , if not label them as "Not paraphrase". The two sentences are seperated by a new line.
Kastner was born to a Jewish family in New York City . His father died when he was young and he was raised by his mother in Harlem .
Kastner was born in a Jewish family in Harlem , his father died when he was young , and he was raised by his mother in New York City .
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Not paraphrase
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task066_timetravel_binary_consistency_classification
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task066-878627256e164f3099ddbd3d7427529a
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In this task, you are given a short story consisting of exactly 5 sentences where the second sentence is missing. You are given a candidate for the second sentence and you need to identify if the given sentence connects the first sentence with the rest of the story. Indicate your answer by "Yes" if it connects, otherwise "No". Do not generate anything else apart from "Yes" or "No". The given sentence is incorrect if it changes the subsequent storyline, so that at least one of the three subsequent sentences form a consistent story.
Sentence 1: Elsa loved to tell stories.
Sentence 3: When she grew older she wrote them down
Sentence 4: And eventually she wrote an entire novel
Sentence 5: Now she writes every day and gets paid for it
Given Sentence 2: He met a cute girl in the ice cream parlor.
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No
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task153_tomqa_find_location_hard_clean
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task153-08df702e3483493f9fb8ddd4c71203d4
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Given a story, answer the question about the story. The question is the last sentence in the input. These stories can be difficult due to their length and how each story has at least one of the three following scenarios: the first is when the individual's belief matches reality, the second is when the individual's belief does not match reality, and the third is when an individual has a false belief about another individual's beliefs. The question will ask about the location of an object in the story with respect to either none or one of the three scenarios.
Oliver entered the hallway. Ella entered the hallway. The broccoli is in the red_suitcase. Ella exited the hallway. Oliver moved the broccoli to the blue_bathtub. Oliver exited the hallway. Ella entered the hallway. Where is the broccoli really? Owen entered the study. Ella entered the study. The asparagus is in the red_cupboard. Owen moved the asparagus to the green_box. Where does Owen think that Ella searches for the asparagus? Isabella entered the study. Oliver entered the study. The lime is in the green_box. Isabella moved the lime to the red_cupboard. Where was the lime at the beginning? Isabella is in the study. Oliver is in the study. The asparagus is in the green_box. Oliver exited the study. Isabella moved the asparagus to the red_cupboard. Isabella exited the study. Oliver entered the study. Where will Oliver look for the asparagus? Owen entered the kitchen. Oliver entered the kitchen. The strawberry is in the red_treasure_chest. Owen moved the strawberry to the blue_cupboard. Where is the strawberry really?
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blue_cupboard
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task592_sciq_incorrect_answer_generation
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task592-64a9aba7f44d48b5a594069b2c0f3b31
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Given a scientific question, generate an incorrect answer to the given question. The incorrect answer should be a plausible alternative to the correct answer. The answer should be some other item belonging to the same category as the correct answer but should be incorrect.
All living things are able to produce what?
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toxins
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task611_mutual_multi_turn_dialogue
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task611-66a3904d2ca14a7bb2e0ffa07ee2b617
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In this task you are given a small conversation between two persons and 4 options on how the conversation should continue. Your job is to choose the most reasonable option. The conversation and the options are separated by a newline character. Each dialogue in the conversation are separated by a comma. F and M indicate female and male, respectively.
M: Helen, will you please pick up Johnny from the kindergarten? I am stuck in a traffic jam. ,F: That's terrible, honey. But an injured miner has just arrived and it seems that I will have to operate on him at once.
(A) M: Alright. You just stay at hospital and concentrate on the operation. I'll pick up Johnny. (B) M: Are you on your way home? I will arrive later. (C) M: I am afraid I did not quite catch what you were saying. Please repeat it. (D) M: You had a car accident? Do you need to me to go to the hospital and see you now?
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A
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task592_sciq_incorrect_answer_generation
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task592-982582939379467980803ab8b7b84502
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Given a scientific question, generate an incorrect answer to the given question. The incorrect answer should be a plausible alternative to the correct answer. The answer should be some other item belonging to the same category as the correct answer but should be incorrect.
What is the term for the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum?
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electricity
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task845_pubmedqa_question_generation
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task845-04aecd3ca8f149dbae29751851051db0
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Given a passage with a context and an answer, construct a question on the basis of the information present in the passage. Construct the question in such a way that (i) it is unambiguous, (ii) it is answerable from the passage, (iii) its answer is unique (iv) it answer uses text phrases from the passage. Avoid creating questions that (i) can't be answered correctly without actually understanding the passage and (ii) uses the same words or phrases given in the passage.
Context: To evaluate the effect of Ac-hE-18A-NH2 on TNF-α secretion and mRNA expression in ox-LDL-stimulated RAW264.7 macrophages and to elucidate the possible mechanisms.', "Macrophages were incubated in the medium containing various concentrations of Ac-hE18A-NH2 (1-50 μg/mL) with ox-LDL (50 μg/mL) stimulated. The TNF-α level and intracellular cholesterol content were measured by commercially available quantitation kits following the manufacturer's instructions. TNF-α and ATP-binding cassette transporter A1 (ABCA1) mRNA expression were detected by real-time PCR. ABCA1 and IκB protein -expression in the macrophages were determined by Western blot. NF-κB activity was evaluated by electrophoretic mobility shift assay (EMSA).", 'Ox-LDL stimulation induced a significant increase in TNF-α secretion, mRNA expression, cholesterol accumulation and nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) activity in RAW264.7 macrophages. Ac-hE-18A-NH2 reduced TNF-α secretion and mRNA expression, up-regulated the ABCA1 mRNA and protein expression, reduced the intracellular cholesterol content, and inhibited NF- κB activation in a dose-dependent manner. Under the same condition and the same concentration, Ac-hE-18A-NH2 was more efficient than D-4F (apoA-I mimetic peptide) in inhibiting the inflammatory response induced by ox-LDL in the macrophages.
Answer: Ac-hE-18A-NH2 may suppress TNF-α secretion and mRNA expression in ox-LDL stimulated RAW264.7 macrophages via IκB-NF-κB signaling pathway. The anti-inflammatory effect of Ac-hE-18A-NH2 is better than that of apoA-I mimic peptide D-4F.
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Does [ Ac-hE-18A-NH2 inhibit the inflammatory response induced by ox-LDL via inhibiting NF-κB activation in RAW264.7 macrophages ]?
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task074_squad1.1_question_generation
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task074-ce3527dab245439ea6b7f7e943a731c6
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This task is about reading the given passage and construct a question about the information present in the passage. Construct a question in such a way that (i) it is unambiguous, (ii) it is answerable from the passage, (iii) its answer is unique (iv) its answer is a continuous text span from the paragraph. Avoid creating questions that (i) can be answered correctly without actually understanding the paragraph and (ii) uses same words or phrases given in the passage.
Formal discipline is administered by congregation elders. When a baptized member is accused of committing a serious sin—usually cases of sexual misconduct or charges of apostasy for disputing Jehovah's Witness doctrines—a judicial committee is formed to determine guilt, provide help and possibly administer discipline. Disfellowshipping, a form of shunning, is the strongest form of discipline, administered to an offender deemed unrepentant. Contact with disfellowshipped individuals is limited to direct family members living in the same home, and with congregation elders who may invite disfellowshipped persons to apply for reinstatement; formal business dealings may continue if contractually or financially obliged. Witnesses are taught that avoiding social and spiritual interaction with disfellowshipped individuals keeps the congregation free from immoral influence and that "losing precious fellowship with loved ones may help [the shunned individual] to come 'to his senses,' see the seriousness of his wrong, and take steps to return to Jehovah." The practice of shunning may also serve to deter other members from dissident behavior. Members who disassociate (formally resign) are described in Watch Tower Society literature as wicked and are also shunned. Expelled individuals may eventually be reinstated to the congregation if deemed repentant by elders in the congregation in which the disfellowshipping was enforced. Reproof is a lesser form of discipline given formally by a judicial committee to a baptized Witness who is considered repentant of serious sin; the reproved person temporarily loses conspicuous privileges of service, but suffers no restriction of social or spiritual fellowship. Marking, a curtailing of social but not spiritual fellowship, is practiced if a baptized member persists in a course of action regarded as a violation of Bible principles but not a serious sin.[note 4]
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Who administers formal discipline?
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task592_sciq_incorrect_answer_generation
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task592-d8cc86aea17444839a4ae722d823a536
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Given a scientific question, generate an incorrect answer to the given question. The incorrect answer should be a plausible alternative to the correct answer. The answer should be some other item belonging to the same category as the correct answer but should be incorrect.
What is needed to provide cells with the oxygen they need for cellular respiration?
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vascular tissue
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task123_conala_sort_dictionary
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task123-8fb2edbb386148b598fac51b521abff4
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In this task you will be given a list of dictionaries. A dictionary is a set of key-value pairs, where each key is unique and has a value associated with that key. You should sort the list of dictionaries from smallest to largest by their 'first' key. If there is two dictionaries with the same 'first' value then sort them by their 'second' key. Negative numbers should come before positive numbers.
[{'first': -99, 'second': -34}, {'first': 76, 'second': 99}, {'first': 77, 'second': -58}, {'first': 49, 'second': -92}, {'first': -10, 'second': -22}]
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[{'first': -99, 'second': -34}, {'first': -10, 'second': -22}, {'first': 49, 'second': -92}, {'first': 76, 'second': 99}, {'first': 77, 'second': -58}]
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task071_abductivenli_answer_generation
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task071-2852475a2a1248b8bda70ea4e022e68e
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In this task, you're given the beginning and the middle of a three-part story. Your job is to complete the short story by writing a probable ending. Generated sentences must be short, have fewer than 10 words, and be simple as if narrating to a child. Avoid using any irrelevant extra information when creating the ending, and use names instead of pronouns (e.g. he / she) wherever possible.
Beginning: The Baylor Bears basketball team played Yale on Thursday. Middle: Baylor and Yale were equally-matched teams.
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Baylor kept it close but in the end they lost the game.
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task310_race_classification
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task310-760705a13e9c46b28adf53ef05f6d38b
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In this task, you're given an article, a question which often contains a blank, four options (associated with "A", "B", "C", "D") and the answer to that question. Your task is to classify whether the given answer is correct or not by providing "Yes" or "No", based on the article.
Article: Back in the old days, when I was a child, we sat around the family roundtable at dinnertime and exchanged our daily experiences. It wasn't very organized, but everyone was recognized and all the news that had to be told was told by each family member. We listened to each other and the interest was not put-on; it was real. Our family was a unit and we supported each other, and nurtured each other, and liked each other, and--we were even willing to admit--we loved each other. Today, the family roundtable has moved to the local fast-food restaurant and talk is not easy, much less encouraged. Grandma, who used to live upstairs, is now. the voice on long distance, and the working parent is far too beaten down each day to spend evening relaxation time listening to the sandbox experience of an eager four-year-old. So family conversation is as extinct as my old toys and parental questions such as "What have you been doing, Bobby?" have been replaced by "I'm busy, go watch television. " And watch TV they do; count them by the millions. But it's usually not children's television that children watch. Saturday morning, the children's hour, amounts to only about 8 percent of their weekly viewing. Where are they to be found? Watching adult television, of course, from the Match Game in the morning, to the afternoon at General Hospital, from the muggings and battles on the evening news right through the family hour and past into Starsky and Hutch. That's where you find our kids, over five million of them, at 10 p. m. , not fewer than a million until after midnight! All of this is done with parental permission. Television, used well, can provide enriching experiences for our young people, but we must use it with some sense. When the carpet is clean, we turn off the vacuum cleaner. When the dishes are clean, the dishwasher turns itself off. Not so the television, which is on from the sun in the morning to the moon at night and beyond! Parents must exercise some control and show some concern about the cultural influence on the child when a program not intended for that child is viewed. Parents need to intervene . Nonintervention may be a wise policy in international affairs, but the results of parental nonintervention will not be wise at all.
Question: The working parent is not willing to listen to her (his) four-year-old child talking about his sandbox games because _ .
Options: (A) she (he) is boring (B) she (he) is busy (C) she (he) is very tired (D) she (he) is angry
Asnwer: C
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Yes
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task123_conala_sort_dictionary
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task123-ea0cbb412df54cc6b25ad9f5b479d349
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In this task you will be given a list of dictionaries. A dictionary is a set of key-value pairs, where each key is unique and has a value associated with that key. You should sort the list of dictionaries from smallest to largest by their 'first' key. If there is two dictionaries with the same 'first' value then sort them by their 'second' key. Negative numbers should come before positive numbers.
[{'first': -14, 'second': 60}, {'first': 79, 'second': -75}, {'first': -48, 'second': 95}, {'first': 97, 'second': 57}, {'first': -93, 'second': 32}, {'first': -13, 'second': 35}, {'first': 7, 'second': -11}, {'first': 35, 'second': -58}, {'first': -39, 'second': -11}]
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[{'first': -93, 'second': 32}, {'first': -48, 'second': 95}, {'first': -39, 'second': -11}, {'first': -14, 'second': 60}, {'first': -13, 'second': 35}, {'first': 7, 'second': -11}, {'first': 35, 'second': -58}, {'first': 79, 'second': -75}, {'first': 97, 'second': 57}]
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task1149_item_check_edible
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task1149-5dacd620f1af47459f8e61a7217dd0fb
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In this task, you are given an item and you need to check whether it is edible or not, return 1 if it is edible, else return 2.
Apple
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1
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task196_sentiment140_answer_generation
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task196-d6065381e5cb41e9881e276d463a230d
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In this task, you are given a text from tweets and a boolean question whether this tweet has positive sentiment or negative sentiment. Your task is to generate answer "yes" when the tweet has that particular sentiment, otherwise generate answer "no".
Tweet: @LisaSonoraBeam Lovely journal cover on your reTREAT page! Question: is it a negative tweet?
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no
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task955_wiki_auto_style_transfer
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task955-b15e64691b174451a50fc1753bf7216f
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In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
The Hague Convention is a set of treaties signed in Den Haag in 1899 and 1907 .
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The Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 are a series of international treaties and declarations negotiated at two international peace conferences at The Hague in the Netherlands .
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task921_code_x_glue_information_retreival
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task921-cf570a58b763463fa93a304ca0d38ac2
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This task is to find the number of 'For' loops present in the given cpp program.
/*
* fenjie.cpp
*
* Created on: 2010-11-28
* Author: ???
* function: ????
*/
int solutionNumber(int a,int k){//??????????????
int i;
if(a==1) return 1;
if(k>a) return 0;
for(i=k;i<=a;i++)
if(a%i==0) return solutionNumber(a,i+1)+solutionNumber(a/i,i);
}
int main()
{
int n,a[101];
cin>>n;
for(int i=1;i<=n;i++){
cin>>a[i];//??????
cout<<solutionNumber(a[i],2)<<endl;//????????????
}
return 0;
}
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2
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task1293_kilt_tasks_hotpotqa_question_answering
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task1293-e9c47eb545bd4b58a19cb7a1cece73e9
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In this task, you are given a question. You have to answer the question based on your information.
Ahmed Brahim had supposed contacts with the professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at what institution?
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St Antony's College
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task080_piqa_answer_generation
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task080-99f1ada7802e44ec92155db33d03b68b
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In this task the focus is on physical knowledge about the world. Given the provided goal task in the input, describe a process that would lead to the asked outcome. This process often involves physical motions with objects, such as moving them, arranging them in a certain way, mixing them, shaking them, etc.
video
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can be pointed at by fingers
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task311_race_question_generation
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task311-85f32ba17af241f7b9bc130d57038ca9
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In this task, you're given an article and an answer. Your task is to generate the question for the answer based on the given article.
Article: There is a nine-year-old kid sitting at his desk and all of a sudden, there is water between his feet and his pants are wet. He thinks his heart is going to stop. It's never happened before, and he knows that when the boys find out he will never hear the end of it. When the girls find out, they'll never speak to him again . The boy puts his head down and prays, "Dear God, this is an emergency! I need help now! I'm dead meat ."He looks up from his prayer and here comes the teacher with a look in her eyes that says he has been discovered. As the teacher is walking toward him, a classmate named Susie is carrying a goldfish bowl that is filled with water. Susie trips in front of the teacher and throws the bowl of water on the boy's legs. The boy pretends to be angry, but all the while is saying to himself, "Thank you, Lord! Thank you, Lord!" Now all of a sudden, instead of being the object of _ , the boy is the object of sympathy. The teacher gives him gym shorts to put on while his pants are dried out. All the other children are on their hands and knees cleaning up around his desk. The sympathy is wonderful. But as life would have it, the ridicule that should have been his goes to someone else - Susie. She tries to help, but they tell her to get out. You've done enough, you klutz!' Finally, at the end of the day, as they are waiting for the bus, the boy walks over to Susie and whispers, 'You did that on purpose, didn't you?' Susie whispers back, 'I wet my pants once too.'
Answer: Four
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How many people in the story know the truth about the wet pants?
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task376_reverse_order_of_words
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task376-b243ba39f9384ffda0abd19dad7df227
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In this task, you need to reverse the order of words in the given sentence.
Sentence: a computer room with a desk and a variety of knick knacks
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knacks knick of variety a and desk a with room computer a
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task1217_atomic_answer_generation
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task1217-f9c9f67fcf2643dcafe400977524034a
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In this task, you are given a sentence with a missing word that can be an object, a person, and/or an action. Fill in the blank with a plausible word. Although each sentence has many correct answers, you only have to write one answer.
PersonX throws ___ into the trash
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grapes
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task318_stereoset_classification_gender
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task318-f8a9f31235a44ecd9a7b469cc683c91b
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You are given a target person and two sentences. Your task is to determine whether the second sentence conveys either a stereotype, anti-stereotype, or is unrelated with respect to the first sentence and the target. A stereotype is a widely held but oversimplified notion of a group of people. An anti-stereotype is an idea that goes against the widely held but oversimplified notion of a group of people. Sentences and targets are unrelated if there is no relevance between them.
Target: himself
He patted himself on the back. He was full of confidence in his abilities.
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stereotype
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task274_overruling_legal_classification
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task274-7142cf43d8d747e1825a45e90776a411
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In this task, you will be shown a sentence, and you should determine whether it is overruling or non-overruling. In law, an overruling sentence is a statement that nullifies a previous case decision as a precedent by a constitutionally valid statute or a decision by the same or higher ranking court which establishes a different rule on the point of law involved. Classify your answers into overruling or non-overruling
when carlton and caldwell began to leave underground atlanta, carlton waved down police.
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non-overruling
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task303_record_incorrect_answer_generation
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task303-c0e3b84336144265ac726e03402b3107
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In this task, you will be presented with a passage, and you need to write an **implausible** answer to to fill in the place of "_". Your answer should be incorrect, but should not be out of context. Try using words that are related to the context of the passage, but are not the correct answer. Even though there exist multiple wrong answers, we only need a single wrong answer.
Marlon Brando's family are involved in a bitter battle over the arrangements at his eldest son's grave. The dying request of Brando's first wife Anna Kashfi to be buried next to their son Christian has been blocked, according to reports. Christian's first wife Mary, who is still alive, had already bought the plot and refused to give it up even after Kashfi's death. Kashfi, who was born to a British father, has instead been buried in the plot above Christian, meaning they are head to head. Kashfi died at the age of 80 after losing her battle to breast and colon cancer. She was laid to rest in a cemetery in Kalama, Washington, last Wednesday.Anna Kashfi, Brando's first wife, was buried Wednesday in Kalama, Washington, after dying of breast and colon cancer aged 80Her dying wish was to be buried next to the couple's son ChristianBut Christian's first wife, Mary, bought the plot and refused to give it upAnna was buried in the plot above her son - meaning they are head to head
Question:_ was jailed for 10 years - considered a light sentence.
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Kashfi
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task574_air_dialogue_sentence_generation
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task574-b186ce24d95d4f8e857df55005762602
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In this task, you're given a dialogue between a customer and a flight booking agent with a gap in the conversation. Your job is to find the answer of the previous dialogue. Avoid using irrelevant extra information while creating the answer. The answer should be relevant to the question before the blank. If you fill the blank with a question, it should have an answer from the agent in the given dialogue. Fill the gap marked with underline.
customer: Hi.
agent: Hello. How may I assist you today?
customer: I am Christine Jones.
agent: Nice meeting you Jones.
customer: Can you help me in booking from LAX to PHX?
agent: Sure, I will help you. Can you please provide your planned dates of travelling?
customer: My trip dates are 05/11 to 05/13.
agent: Please wait a moment to check the flights.
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agent: Based on your information, I have found a flight with 1 connection with the fare of 100. Is it ok for you?
customer: You can book it.
agent: Ok, your ticket has been booked in flight number 1004.
customer: Thank you.
agent: Thank you for approaching us, have a great journey.
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customer: Sure.
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task616_cola_classification
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task616-fe7c5d8b3cfd4372983daa3650a4c50c
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You're given a sentence and your task is to classify whether the sentence is acceptable or not. Any sentence which is grammatically correct, has a naturalistic text, is written by a native speaker and which minimizes superfluous content is acceptable, otherwise unacceptable. If the sentence is acceptable then write "acceptable", otherwise "unacceptable".
I dislike it for him to tickle myself.
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unacceptable
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task1727_wiqa_what_is_the_effect
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task1727-c2650b1c34f74172b48b1cb86b838daa
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In this task you will be given a process, and a question. The process contains a sequence of steps that happen in order. The question asks about the effect of a certain event on another event. If the first event has a positive effect on the second event, answer with "for", if it has a negative effect, answer with "against". If there's no causal relationship between the two, answer with "none".
Process: -Kidneys filter waste out of blood -Composition of blood is regulated -Volume of water in blood is kept constant -PH is kept at a constant level -Kidneys help regulate blood pressure -Kidneys stimulate the making of red blood cells -Calcium levels are maintained.
Question: What is the effect of the cake needs to be larger on more waste being removed from the body.?
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none
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task581_socialiqa_question_generation
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task581-d97293cdb8494720963aaf19b73689f6
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In this task, you're given context and an answer. Your task is to generate the question for this answer based on the given context with commonsense reasoning about social situations..
Context: Casey never gave Cameron respect even though they had been friends for years.
Answer: wish they had better friends
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What will happen to Cameron?
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task514_argument_consequence_classification
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task514-da7114ddb3164495a95961f88803b931
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You will be given a topic and an argument. Your task is to answer whether the topic and the argument are related or not. A related argument should provide more details about the outcomes of the topic. If the argument refers to or suggests a consequence related to that topic, answer with "yes"; otherwise, answer with "no".
topic: Democratic peace theory
argument: Democracies are founded on similar principles so they should not go to war.
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no
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task587_amazonfood_polarity_correction_classification
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task587-04b8f6c01ccc4f629ceb87d23654443c
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You are given an amazon food product review and its polarity (positive or negative). Your task is to answer "True" if the specified sentence and its polarity match; otherwise, answer "False".
Wow, these are remarkably tasty chips. I discovered them through Weight Watchers and like the fact that they are low in calories and fat. But they are high in flavor and umami. I am now a big fan!
Polarity: Positive
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True
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task159_check_frequency_of_words_in_sentence_pair
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task159-0c4523a8fbef450d8528da619d873ea9
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In this task, answer 'Yes' if the frequency of the given word in the two sentences is equal, else answer 'No'.
Sentence1: 'a man in a suit and sunglasses takes a selfie', Sentence2: 'a young man holding a kite string while two other people help the kite get airborne'. Is the frequency of the word 'a' in two sentences equal?
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No
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task067_abductivenli_answer_generation
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task067-3203829b097444179dfd719168ef7719
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In this task, you're given the beginning and the ending of a three-part story. Your job is to complete the short story by writing a middle sentence that seamlessly connects the first and last sentence. Generated sentences must be short, have fewer than 10 words, and be simple as if narrating to a child. Avoid using any irrelevant extra information when creating the middle sentence, and use names (e.g. Jack, Barbara,...) instead of pronouns (e.g. he / she) wherever possible.
Beginning: My sister found out that I like a nerdy tabletop game. Ending: I will invite her again next time we play.
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We both played and had fun.
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task024_cosmosqa_answer_generation
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task024-eac3070d00b04fe2ad28210b335618eb
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Craft one correct answer to the question given in input. To make it more interesting, try to use non-stereotypical language if possible. Make sure your correct answer is reasonably long, consistent with the context, and requires common sense (instead of explicit extraction from the context.) In your answer, use as few words as possible from the given context. Use a response that is uncommon/non-stereotypical, so that it is less predictable. To be less repetitive, please vary your language for each question.
Context: To the left , the hen , to the right , a spectacular Tom Turkey displays all his feathers in a ritual that is quintessentially Spring . If only I could send you the soundbytes that matched this dance ! All morning and into the afternoon I watched from the windows and the deck as the Tom strutted and called .
Question: Why is the Tom Turkey dancing ?
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He is trying to impress lady turkeys and find a mate.
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task471_haspart_answer_generation
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task471-76665a29335a4c2c98a2627db9ce7af3
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Given an entity as input, output another entity which is part of the input entity. These are entities of meronym. In linguistics, meronymy is a semantic relation between a meronym denoting a part and a holonym denoting a whole. In simpler terms, a meronym (i.e., output entity) is in a part-of relationship with its holonym (i.e., input entity).
cell cycle
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nucleus
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task1399_obqa_answer_generation
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task1399-452c93847d214e0ab26c3431d9e9697b
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In this task, you are given a fact statement and question based on the fact. Your task is to generate the correct answer for the question. The answer needs to be generated using the context fact statement.
Fact: a tree growing a tree-growth ring occurs once per year. Question: A person cuts down their neighbor's tree without permission. The neighbor who lost the tree is upset, and sues for the cost of the tree, which depends on the age of the tree at the time of cutting. The tree age is determined by?
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number of circles
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task063_first_i_elements
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task063-c548b45175124b16b75145cedd898248
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In this task, you are given inputs i and A, where i is an integer and A is a list. You need to output the first i elements of A, starting with the 1st element in A. i will always have a value less than the length of A
6, ['2299', '5227', '541', '2973', '4385', 'g', '435', '1123', 'm', '4465', 'G', '8213', '7605', 'I', 'q', '875']
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2299, 5227, 541, 2973, 4385, g
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task064_all_elements_except_first_i
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task064-bbe3f1df34d6411f872d9c7135a1c67f
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In this task, you are given inputs i and A, where i is an integer and A is a list. You need to list all the elements of A after the first i elements. i will always have a value less than the length of A.
8, ['7887', 'g', 'B', '3051', '8745', '9503', '2975', 'R', '5665', '7785', '6921', 'a', '371', 'Z', '1653', '4131', '8911', '5741', 'c', '7395', 'g', '9399', '551', '1939', 'j', '8123', 'O', 'W', '7425']
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5665, 7785, 6921, a, 371, Z, 1653, 4131, 8911, 5741, c, 7395, g, 9399, 551, 1939, j, 8123, O, W, 7425
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