GreenNode/SFT_databricks_dolly_15k huggingface dataset:
user: Why did Major League Baseball introduce new rules for 2023?

assistant: Major League Baseball has long grappled with a stigma that its games were boring because they were too long without much action.  

There were multiple reasons for games to swell to over 3 hours long on average, but notably were more pitching changes, long delays between pitches, batters who would step out of the batters box between pitches, evolving batter strategies to be home-run or strikeout, and increased coach mound visits.  

In 2023, Major League Baseball implemented a number of drastic rule changes in its top flight league that had shortened game times to 2 hours, 30 minutes in lower levels called the Minor Leagues.  These changes included a pitch clock, limiting the number of pickoff attempts.  To increase the amount of offense generated, they eliminated the defensive shift and increased the size of the bases, effectively shortening the distance between bases to encourage more stolen base attempts.  

Through the first week of the 2023 season, the average length of game is down to 2 hours, 30 minutes like the Minors, batting averages are up 15 points to .245, and the number of stolen bases doubled in comparison to the year before.
user: What are the best hiking trails near Seattle, Washington?

assistant: Washington state is famous for breathtaking nature with scenic lakes, enormous mountains, and picturesque ocean views.  Some of the best hiking trails near Seattle, Washington are: 
-  Rattlesnake Ledge Trail: in North Bend, Washington only 30 mins away from Seattle. Given how close and beautiful this trail is to the city, no wonder this is one of the most popular hiking trails in Washington. The trail is moderately challenging with 5.3 miles roundtrip and 1,459 ft of elevation. The mountain trail provides 3 levels of panoramic views of Mount Si and Mount Washington looming above RattleSnake lake, which is also a popular swimming and kayaking destination in the summer. 
- Wallace Falls via Woody Trail: a 4.9 miles out and back trail near Gold Bar, Washington, less than an hour away from Seattle. It's a scenic trail meandering along the Wallace River, with the lush vegetation and forest moss. You can see the Wallace Falls from 3 view points at Lower Falls, Middle Falls and Upper Falls. Most of the trail to Middle Falls doesn't have much elevation, the substantial elevation gain is between Middle Falls and Upper Falls. 
-  Lake 22: in Mount Baker Snoqualmie National Forest, about 2 hours drive from Seattle. Lake Twenty-Two Trail is a beautiful hike to an alpine lake through old growth forests. The trail is challenging with 6.8 miles roundtrip and 1,473 ft of elevation. When you reach the destination, you can loop around the turquoise lake and take in the enormous view of Mount Pilchuck. 
-  Colchuck Lake: in Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, near Leavenworth about 3 hours drive from Seattle. It features a beautiful scenery in the Alpine Lakes area of Washington state. The trail is challenging with 8.5 miles round trip and 2,349 ft of elevation. The hike can be technical with steep terrain over boulders and water streams. However, you will be rewarded with a breathtaking view of a emerald blue glacier lake and towering snow mountains. 
- From Seattle, visitors can also go to 3 beautiful National Parks with hundreds of trails such as Mount Rainier National Park (ranked 6/59), Olympic National Park (ranked 12/59), and North Cascades National Park (ranked 36/59)
user: Identify which instrument is string or woodwind: Octobass, Bass clarinet

assistant: Bass clarinet is woodwind, Octobass is string.
user: What is the difference between speed and velocity?

assistant: Speed and velocity are different terms. Speed is a measurement of distance over time. Velocity is a measurement of distance over time in a direction. Speed is scalar and can only be positive. Velocity is a vector and can either be positive or negative. For example, an object moving at a speed of 50 km/h tells us only how quickly it is moving but not its direction. An object with a velocity of +50 km/h tells us its speed and that it is moving forwards. Conversely, an object with a velocity of -50 km/h tells us its speed and that it is moving backward.
user: To which family does the Chasenella belong to

Chasenella is a genus of harvestmen in the family Sclerosomatidae from Borneo.[1]

assistant: Chasenella is a genus of harvestmen in the family Sclerosomatidae from Borneo.
user: Given this paragraph about the Pearl Mill Village Historic District, tell me where it is located.

Pearl Mill Village Historic District is a national historic district located at Durham, Durham County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 26 contributing residential buildings built by owners of Pearl Cotton Mills. The mill village dwellings are either two-story duplex type built about 1905 or a one-story bungalow constructed about 1924.[2]

assistant: The Pearl Mill Village Historic District is in Durham, North Carolina.
user: What is Pullman National Historical Park?

Pullman National Historical Park is a historic district located in Chicago and was the first model, planned industrial community in the United States. The district had its origins in the manufacturing plans and organization of the Pullman Company and became one of the most well-known company towns in the United States, as well as the scene of the violent 1894 Pullman strike. It was built for George Pullman as a place to produce the famous Pullman sleeping cars.

assistant: Pullman National Historical Park is a historic district located in Chicago and was the first model, planned industrial community in the United States. It was built for George Pullman as a place to produce the famous Pullman sleeping cars.The park was made a national monument by president Barack Obama on February 19, 2015. The district had its origins in the manufacturing plans and organization of the Pullman Company and became one of the most well-known company towns in the United States, as well as the scene of the violent 1894 Pullman strike. During the strike the American Railway Union led by Eugene V. Debs boycotted the company following the panic of 1893 crippling railroad traffic in the United States. Thousands of U.S marshals and army troops were deployed to break up the strike. The strike ultimately changed the American labor landscape showing the power a union could have against an industry.
user: Classify each team as playing in the EPL or La Liga: Barcelona, Tottenham, Brighton, Liverpool, Sevilla, Valencia, Everton

assistant: Barcelona: La Liga
Tottenham: EPL
Brighton: EPL
Liverpool: EPL
Sevilla: La Liga
Valencia: La Liga
Everton: EPL
user: What are the five smallest countries in Europe?

assistant: The five smallest countries in Europe are Andorra, Monaco, San Marino, Vatican City, and Liechtenstein.
user: Given this text about Major League Baseball, how many games do teams play in the regular season and how many games are played in the World Series.

Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization and the oldest major professional sports league in the world.[B] MLB is composed of 30 teams, divided equally between the National League (NL) and the American League (AL), with 29 in the United States and 1 in Canada. Formed in 1876 and 1901 respectively, the NL and AL cemented their cooperation with the National Agreement in 1903. They remained legally separate entities until 2000, when they merged into a single organization led by the Commissioner of Baseball.[3][17][18] MLB is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan.[7] It is considered one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. 

Each team plays 162 games per season, and six teams in each league advance to a four-round postseason tournament that culminates in the World Series, a best-of-seven championship series between the two league champions first played in 1903. The New York Yankees have the most championships: 27. The reigning champions are the Houston Astros, who defeated the Philadelphia Phillies, 4–2, in the 2022 World Series.

assistant: Each team will play 162 games per regular season, with the two top teams playing a best of seven in the World Series Championship.
user: What goes into a credit score?

assistant: In the US, a credit score is based off information given in a credit report. These are analyzed and grouped into five categories: payment history (35%), amounts owed (30%), length of credit history (15%), new credit (10%) and credit mix (10%). Both positive and negative information is gathered in each category.
user: What is the Role of the Fourth Official in Football?

assistant: The main role of the Fourth Official in football is assisting the referee in his control of the match. All the officials should do so under the FIFA Football Laws of the Game

The 4th Official would officiate if any of the other three match officials (referee or assistant referees) are unable to continue to administer the rules and regulations.
user: Provide a few different ideas for games for 4 adults to play.

assistant: There are a number of popular board games that would be suitable for four adult players. Catan is a popular strategy and resource board game for two to four players, Scrabble is a good option and poker is always a popular game for adults and only requires a pack of playing cards and either poker chips or objects that can be used in place of betting chips, such as buttons.
user: What is an interception in American football? Write your response as if you are American explaining it to a coworker from another country.

assistant: The player that is under center is called the quarterback. His job is to throw or handoff the football to an eligible member of this own team. Usually, the ball is given to the running back, wide receiver, or tide end. An interception occurs when the quarterback throws the football to his intended team mate and a member of the opposing team catches the football instead. When this occurs, the opposing team gains possession of the football and their offense goes out into the field and they have an opportunity to drive the football down the field with the goal of scoring a touchdown or field goal.
user: 5 most unusual ways to use screwdriver

assistant: to use it to cut coconut
to use it as can opener
to use it as a darts
to use it as a blocker
to use it as a chisel
user: Can you list a few cities that Obama lived in from the below text?

Barack Hussein Obama II (/bəˈrɑːk huːˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/ (listen) bə-RAHK hoo-SAYN oh-BAH-mə;[1] born August 4, 1961) is an American former politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African-American president of the United States.[2] Obama previously served as a U.S. senator representing Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004, and worked as a civil rights lawyer before holding public office.

Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. After graduating from Columbia University in 1983, he worked as a community organizer in Chicago. In 1988, he enrolled in Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review. After graduating, he became a civil rights attorney and an academic, teaching constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. Turning to elective politics, he represented the 13th district in the Illinois Senate from 1997 until 2004, when he ran for the U.S. Senate. Obama received national attention in 2004 with his March Senate primary win, his well-received keynote address at the July Democratic National Convention, and his landslide November election to the Senate. In 2008, after a close primary campaign against Hillary Clinton, he was nominated by the Democratic Party for president and chose Joe Biden as his running mate. Obama was elected over Republican nominee John McCain in the presidential election and was inaugurated on January 20, 2009. Nine months later, he was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, a decision that drew a mixture of praise and criticism.

Obama's first-term actions addressed the global financial crisis and included a major stimulus package, a partial extension of George W. Bush's tax cuts, legislation to reform health care, a major financial regulation reform bill, and the end of a major US military presence in Iraq. Obama also appointed Supreme Court justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, the former being the first Hispanic American on the Supreme Court. He ordered the counterterrorism raid which killed Osama bin Laden and downplayed Bush's counterinsurgency model, expanding air strikes and making extensive use of special forces while encouraging greater reliance on host-government militaries.

assistant: Honolulu, Chicago,
user: List the ingredients to make the best Greek salad

assistant: Salad: Mixed greens, tomato, cucumber, red onion, Kalamata olives, lots of feta cheese, marinated artichoke hearts, hearts of palm, hemp seeds, beets, pink salt, fresh ground black pepper, lots of oregano 
Dressing: Olive oil, fresh squeezed lemon juice
user: Given this short paragraph about Belize, how many people live there and what is notable about its population density?

Belize, formerly known as British Honduras, is a Caribbean country located on the northeastern coast of Central America. Belize is bordered on the northwest by Mexico, on the east by the Caribbean Sea, and on the south and west by Guatemala. It has an area of 22,970 square kilometres (8,867 sq mi) and a population of 408,487 (2019). Its mainland is about 290 km (180 mi) long and 110 km (68 mi) wide. It has the lowest population and population density in Central America.

assistant: Belize has a population of 408,487 people and has the lowest population density in Central America.
user: How did Washington become a state?

Washington, officially the State of Washington and often referred to as Washington state to distinguish it from the USA's capital, Washington, D.C., is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. Named for George Washington—the first U.S. president—the state was formed from the western part of the Washington Territory, which was ceded by the British Empire in 1846, by the Oregon Treaty in the settlement of the Oregon boundary dispute. The state is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean, Oregon to the south, Idaho to the east, and the Canadian province of British Columbia to the north. It was admitted to the Union as the 42nd state in 1889. Olympia is the state capital; the state's largest city is Seattle.

assistant: Washington became the 42nd state of the United States of America in 1889. The United States Congress passed an act enabling the territories of Washington, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana to seek statehood.
user: Where was Mazzy Star formed?

"Mazzy Star is an American alternative rock band formed in 1988 in Santa Monica, California, from remnants of the group Opal. Founding member David Roback's friend Hope Sandoval became the group's vocalist when Kendra Smith left Opal.[2]

Mazzy Star is best known for the song ""Fade into You"", which brought the band some success in the mid-1990s and was the group's biggest mainstream hit, earning extensive exposure on MTV, VH1, and radio airplay. Roback and Sandoval were the creative center of the band, with Sandoval as lyricist and Roback as composer of the majority of the band's material until his death in Los Angeles on February 24, 2020, from metastatic cancer. Mazzy Star's founding drummer Keith Mitchell, originally part of Opal, died on May 14, 2017 from cancer."

assistant: Mazzy Star was formed in Santa Monica, California in 1988
user: Give me an overview of how promotion and relegation works in the English Premier League

Competition
There are 20 clubs in the Premier League. During the course of a season (from August to May) each club plays the others twice (a double round-robin system), once at their home stadium and once at that of their opponents, for 38 games. Teams receive three points for a win and one point for a draw. No points are awarded for a loss. Teams are ranked by total points, then goal difference, and then goals scored. If still equal, teams are deemed to occupy the same position. If there is a tie for the championship, for relegation, or for qualification to other competitions, the head-to-head record between the tied teams is taken into consideration (points scored in the matches between the teams, followed by away goals in those matches.) If two teams are still tied, a play-off match at a neutral venue decides rank.[83]

Promotion and relegation
A system of promotion and relegation exists between the Premier League and the EFL Championship. The three lowest placed teams in the Premier League are relegated to the Championship, and the top two teams from the Championship promoted to the Premier League,[84] with an additional team promoted after a series of play-offs involving the third, fourth, fifth and sixth placed clubs.[85] The number of clubs was reduced from 22 to 20 in 1995, when four teams were relegated from the league and only two teams promoted.[86][87] The top flight had only been expanded to 22 teams at the start of the 1991–92 season – the year prior to the formation of the Premier League.[87]

On 8 June 2006, FIFA requested that all major European leagues, including Italy's Serie A and Spain's La Liga, be reduced to 18 teams by the start of the 2007–08 season. The Premier League responded by announcing their intention to resist such a reduction.[88] Ultimately, the 2007–08 season kicked off again with 20 teams.[89]

assistant: The bottom 3 teams in the Premier League are relegated to the EFL Championship. The top 2 teams and the winner of a tournament between the 3rd through 6th ranked teams in the EFL Championship are promoted to the Premiere League.
user: What is the standard tuning for a 6 string guitar?

assistant: From the highest tone to the lowest, the tuning of the 6 strings is E B G D A E.
user: How soon should you make coffee after grinding the beans?

assistant: For best results, no matter the brewing method, you should make your coffee within twenty minutes of grinding the coffee beans.
user: The following are a mix of english and hindi words. separate them out logically:
your
mujhe
lamp
pyaar
tamanna
tomorrow
perhaps
kyunki
how
your
yaar
shade

assistant: English:
tomorrow
how
your
perhaps
lamp
shade

Hindi:
mujhe
kyunki
yaar
tamanna
pyaar
user: What film released and set in 1985 features Doc Brown's Delorean time machine that takes Marty McFly back to 1955 where he inadvertently prevented his birth by intervening when his mother and father first met and fell in love?

assistant: Back to the Future
user: What are some different festivities people do on Easter?

assistant: Egg hunt, egg dyeing, Easter baskets, photos with the Easter bunny
user: What is the best way to tune a snare drum?

assistant: The best way to tune a drum depends on which system the drum uses for tension. Newer technologies such as Dialtune's cable tuning system allow a drummer to quickly and evenly tune a drum head by turning separate dials for the top and bottom head. 

Traditional lug and tension rod drums use a drum key and require more attention to detail. For these drums, start by getting all tension rods finger-tight. Bring the snare drum up to tension with a full turn of a drum key of each one, moving in a star pattern around the drum. Use a drumstick to tap around the drum by each tension rod and listen for a consistent sound. 

Once you have the overall sound in the range you’re looking for, test the pitch by tapping around the drum. For the snare’s resonant head, detune it like the batter head. Tune it ‘tabletop tight’: so flat you could confidently rest a drink on it (don’t do this, though). Bring up each tension rod another quarter turn. You want to hear the wires, but not so much that it overwhelms the attack. Tap the head beside each tension rod, then start to even out the pitch with the tension rods so they all match.
user: What is a short hiking trail in Tiburon?

assistant: One short hiking trail in Tiburon, California is off Gilmartin Drive. It's easy to spot but unmarked! The trail is a local favorite and takes you to an overlook with views of San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge. You can check out the views while swinging from Hippie Tree, the giant eucalyptus tree.
user: Can you suggest 5 benefits of Genetical modification technologies like CRISPR ?

assistant: 1.Treating diseases in Humans and animals 
2. Developing new drugs 
3. Growing agricultural crops 
4. Developing new cancer treatments
5. Identifying and treating In Vitro problems
user: What are some good rainy day activities?

assistant: Watching a movie, baking, knitting, drawing, coloring, organizing your closet, organizing your kitchen cabinets, getting rid of clutter around the house, painting a picture, cleaning ceiling fans and baseboards
user: here is a blurb about byte pair encoding for encryption, what benefits does this concept have besides compression?

Byte pair encoding[1][2] (BPE) or digram coding[3] is a simple and robust form of data compression in which the most common pair of contiguous bytes of data in a sequence are replaced with a byte that does not occur within the sequence. A lookup table of the replacements is required to rebuild the original data. The algorithm was first described publicly by Philip Gage in a February 1994 article "A New Algorithm for Data Compression" in the C Users Journal.[4]

A variant of the technique has shown to be useful in several natural language processing (NLP) domains, for applications such as tokenisation, as seen in Google's SentencePiece[5] and OpenAI's GPT-3.[6] Here, the goal is not data compression, but tokenisation of text in a given language to produce a variable sequence of terms from a fixed-size vocabulary of tokens. Typically, most words will be encoded as a single token, while rare words will be encoded as a sequence of a few tokens, where these tokens represent meaningful word parts. This translation of text into tokens can be found by variants of byte pair encoding, such as subword units.[7]

Byte pair encoding lends itself to NLP tasks due to its simplicity and speed; BPE is suitably effective for the tokenisation of terms, does not require large computational overheads, and remains consistent, making it reliable.

assistant: An alternate use for byte pair encoding besides compression would be tokenization.  Tokenization can be used in Natural Language Processing to encode tokens of words for simplicity and speed in NLP tasks.
user: Compared to a human, categorize the following as fast or slow animals: sloth, cheetah, eagle, tortoise, hippo, slug, horse.

assistant: A sloth, tortoise and slug are all slower than a sprinting human. If traveling at top speed, a cheetah, eagle, hippo, and horse are all faster than a sprinting human.
user: What is the best way to evaluate the performance of my marketing spend?

assistant: The primary purpose for evaluating the performance of marketing spend tends to be toward informing decisions around how to reallocate that marketing spend in future periods, in order to improve business performance overall. In this regard, we can look at this problem as a decision support problem space. Historically, marketers have used a range of approaches ranging from marketing mix modeling, to marketing attribution, to controlled experiments, and more. None of these approaches are perfect, but a combination of these approaches combined with a rigorous decision feedback loop (e.g. in the spirit of the Observe, Oriented, Decide, Act loop) can help marketers improve their marketing performance management, and hence their marketing performance, over time.
user: What are the names of the three largest United States Virgin Islands?

assistant: St. Croix, St. John, and St. Thomas.
user: List top 5 people with most medals in the olympics

assistant: 1. Michael Phelps - 28 medals
2. Larisa Latynina - 18 medals 
3. Marit Bjorgen - 15 medals 
4. Nikolai Andrianov - 15 medals 
5. Ole Einar Bjorndalen - 13 medals
user: Who wins the point in tennis?

Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent's court. The object of the game is to manoeuvre the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a valid return. The player who is unable to return the ball validly will not gain a point, while the opposite player will.

assistant: A player who can return the ball validly when the opposite player unable to return it.
user: Which of the following are appropriate for a Black Tie dress code? A tuxedo, a blue suit, a loose sundress, a formal floor length gown?

assistant: A tuxedo and a formal floor length gown
user: From the passage note down the various celebrities who joined TikTok . List the results in comma separated format.

ByteDance planned on Douyin expanding overseas. The founder of ByteDance, Zhang Yiming, stated that "China is home to only one-fifth of Internet users globally. If we don't expand on a global scale, we are bound to lose to peers eyeing the four-fifths. So, going global is a must."[20]

The app was launched as TikTok in the international market in September 2017.[21] On 23 January 2018, the TikTok app ranked first among free application downloads on app stores in Thailand and other countries.[22]

TikTok has been downloaded more than 130 million times in the United States and has reached 2 billion downloads worldwide,[23][24] according to data from mobile research firm Sensor Tower (those numbers exclude Android users in China).[25]

In the United States, celebrities, including Jimmy Fallon and Tony Hawk, began using the app in 2018.[26][27] Other celebrities, including Jennifer Lopez, Jessica Alba, Will Smith, and Justin Bieber joined TikTok as well as many others.[28]

In January 2019, TikTok allowed creators to embed merchandise sale links into their videos.[29]

On 3 September 2019, TikTok and the U.S. National Football League (NFL) announced a multi-year partnership.[30] The agreement occurred just two days before the NFL's 100th season kick-off at Soldier Field, where TikTok hosted activities for fans in honor of the deal. The partnership entails the launch of an official NFL TikTok account, which is to bring about new marketing opportunities such as sponsored videos and hashtag challenges. In July 2020, TikTok, excluding Douyin, reported close to 800 million monthly active users worldwide after less than four years of existence.[31]

assistant: Jimmy Fallon, Tony Hawk, Jennifer Lopez, Jessica Alba, Will Smith, Justin Bieber
user: Tell me which sport of ice hockey or baseball these positions belong: outfielder, pitcher, left winger, forward, right fielder, goalie, catcher, third baseman, left defenseman

assistant: Ice Hockey Positions: left winger, forward, goalie, left defenseman
Baseball Positions: outfielder, pitcher, right fielder, catcher, third baseman
user: What’s the best way to cook scrambled eggs?

assistant: Heat a pan to medium heat and melt some butter. Crack eggs into the pan and break the yolk so that the mixture in the pan has a nice variation. Continue slowly stirring the eggs. Every 30 seconds, remove the pan from the heat. Then return to the heat for 30 seconds. Continue this process and continue stirring until the eggs reach your preferred consistency.
user: What is Schalke 04 famous for?

Fußballclub Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04 e. V., commonly known as FC Schalke 04 (German: [ɛf tseː ˈʃalkə nʊl fiːɐ̯] (listen)), Schalke 04 (German: [ˌʃalkə nʊl ˈfiːɐ̯] (listen)), or abbreviated as S04 (German: [ˈɛs nʊl fiːɐ̯] (listen)), is a professional German football and multi-sports club originally from the Schalke district of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia. The "04" in the club's name derives from its formation in 1904. Schalke have been one of the most popular professional football teams in Germany, even though the club's heyday was in the 1930s and 1940s. Schalke have played in the Bundesliga, the top tier of the German football league system, since 2022, following promotion from the 2. Bundesliga in 2021–22. As of 2022, the club has 160,000 members,[3] making it the second-largest football club in Germany and the fourth-largest club in the world in terms of membership.[4] Other activities offered by the club include athletics, basketball, handball, table tennis, winter sports and eSports.

assistant: FC Schalke 04 (full name Fußballclub Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04 e. V. ) is a German football and multi-sports club that was founded in 1904 in Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club won seven times the German Championship, five times the German Cup / DFB-Pokal and 1997 the UEFA-CUP, when it beat Inter Milan in the finals. The club receives from football fans all over the world renown for its youth academy, which constantly develops famous players. Benedikt Höwedes, Manuel Neuer and Mesut Özil, who won the World Cup with Germany in 2014, were formed in the Schalke 04 youth academy. Since 2011 the youth academy is called Knappenschmiede in reference to the mining industry that was very strong in the past in the area of Western Germany. A Knappe is a miner after completion of his apprenticeship.
user: What is the smallest country in the world?

assistant: The smallest country in the world is Vatican City, with an area of less than .5 square kilometers. It is fully encircled by the Italian capital of Rome, and has existed as a sovereign nation since 1929. Due to its small size it is considered to be a microstate.
user: What is a tender?

assistant: If an organization asks firms to send in tenders to supply something, they are asking for firm written offers to do the work to an agreed standard and at a stated price.
user: Identify which car manufacturer is British or American: Mini, RAM

assistant: RAM is American, Mini is British
user: Why are cats better than dogs?

assistant: Cats are much better pets than dogs. Cats are softer and fluffier and prefer the company of their owner. Dogs just enjoy the company of any human. Cats also are much lower maintenance and don't require multiple walks per day or that you pick up their poop while it's warm. Cats clean up their own waste. Cats are the best pets.
user: Who directed the episode of Game of Thrones where Jon Snow and Tormund Giantsbane go to ask the wildlings to settle beyond the Wall, but end up encountering White Walkers and the Night King?

assistant: Season five, episode eight entitled "Hardhome"
user: Why are the New England Patriots the greatest NFL team ever?

assistant: The New England Patriots dominance over the NFL has never been matched.  They have had the longest duration of success lasting over 20 years.  Since 2001 they have made the playoffs 18 times, winning the Division 17 times, winning the AFC championship 9 times and winning the Super Bowl 6 times
user: From the passage identify the usage of Limestone. Display the results in a numbered list format.

Limestone (calcium carbonate CaCO3) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of CaCO3. Limestone forms when these minerals precipitate out of water containing dissolved calcium. This can take place through both biological and nonbiological processes, though biological processes, such as the accumulation of corals and shells in the sea, have likely been more important for the last 540 million years.[1][2] Limestone often contains fossils which provide scientists with information on ancient environments and on the evolution of life.[3]About 20% to 25% of sedimentary rock is carbonate rock, and most of this is limestone.[4][3] The remaining carbonate rock is mostly dolomite, a closely related rock, which contains a high percentage of the mineral dolomite, CaMg(CO3)2. Magnesian limestone is an obsolete and poorly-defined term used variously for dolomite, for limestone containing significant dolomite (dolomitic limestone), or for any other limestone containing a significant percentage of magnesium.[5] Most limestone was formed in shallow marine environments, such as continental shelves or platforms, though smaller amounts were formed in many other environments. Much dolomite is secondary dolomite, formed by chemical alteration of limestone.[6][7] Limestone is exposed over large regions of the Earth's surface, and because limestone is slightly soluble in rainwater, these exposures often are eroded to become karst landscapes. Most cave systems are found in limestone bedrock.Limestone has numerous uses: as a chemical feedstock for the production of lime used for cement (an essential component of concrete), as aggregate for the base of roads, as white pigment or filler in products such as toothpaste or paints, as a soil conditioner, and as a popular decorative addition to rock gardens. Limestone formations contain about 30% of the world's petroleum reservoirs.[3]

assistant: 1. as a chemical feedstock for the production of lime used for cement (an essential component of concrete)
2. as aggregate for the base of roads
3. as white pigment or filler in products such as toothpaste or paints
4. as a soil conditioner
5. as a popular decorative addition to rock gardens
user: A farmer is on his way to market. He's going to sell a wolf, a goat, and a cabbage. On the way, he comes to a river crossing. The river is too wide to ford, so he has to take a tiny boat across. The boat is so small that he can take at most one of the three items with him in the boat at a time. Left alone, the wolf would devour the goat, and the goat would devour the cabbage. How can the farmer safely transport all three items across the river?

assistant: The wolf and the cabbage can be left together with no risk to either. So the farmer first takes the goat across. He returns to the near side, retrieves the cabbage, then takes it across to the far side. Then he returns to the near side with the goat. At the near side, he leaves the goat and takes the wolf to the far side, leaving the wolf with the cabbage. Finally, he returns to the near side to take the goat across for a second time. Problem solved!
user: the first person was on the moon?

assistant: Apollo 11 was the American spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle on July 20, 1969, at 20:17,  and Armstrong became the first person to step onto the Moon's surface six hours and 39 minutes later, on July 21 at 02:56 UTC. Aldrin joined him 19 minutes later, and they spent about two and a quarter hours together exploring the site they had named Tranquility Base upon landing. Armstrong and Aldrin collected 47.5 pounds (21.5 kg) of lunar material to bring back to Earth as pilot Michael Collins flew the Command Module Columbia in lunar orbit, and were on the Moon's surface for 21 hours, 36 minutes before lifting off to rejoin Columbia.
user: What magazine was Alex Prager the director of Photography for?

In 2011 Kathy Ryan, director of photography for The New York Times Magazine commissioned Prager to shoot 12, 1 minute films with some film actors from that year, inspired by "cinematic villainy". Prager won a News and Documentary Emmy Award for New Approaches to News & Documentary Programming: Arts, Lifestyle & Culture for her Touch of Evil short films.[7]

assistant: Alex Prager was the director of photography for the New York Times Magazine.
user: In music, what key is the relative minor to the key of B major?

assistant: G# minor is B major's relative minor.
user: Classify these countries as being in the northern hemisphere or the southern hemisphere: Brazil, India, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, United Kingdom

assistant: The countries in the northern hemisphere are: India, Mexico, Canada, United Kingdom
The countries in the southern hemisphere are: Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa
user: What is meditation?

assistant: Meditation is the practice of focusing on the mind on a particular object, such a the breath, to calm the mind and bring clarity. Through various meditation practices individual bring attention and awareness to mental activity. It is through this awareness that mental clarity is achieved.  

Meditation has been known to reduce stress and anxiety as well as bring a greater sense of ease within individuals.
user: Why do people love Air Jordan shoes

assistant: Michael Jordan is the best basketball player of all time.  His talents and abilities we mimicked and idolized by millions of kids all over the globe.  His shoes represented to the kid or adult who bought them that they too could be like Jordan...if they had the shoes.  The different editions of shoes kept the demand from the public high and every new edition kept the consumers buying.  They also created a cult following of collectors who would buy only to hold so that they could sell the at higher prices when certain editions were no longer available.  Jordans became so popular that they had to do special edition versions of the earlier editions.  This created an even larger community of collector types who would buy them up in bulk to create new markets for the coveted shoes.  I, personally, am a huge fan of the 3's and 4's edition.
user: What are questions you can ask to get to know someone?

assistant: Questions you can ask to get to know someone are the following:  

1. What is your name?
2. What is your age?
3. What are your hobbies?
4. Did you go to college?  What college?
5. What do you do for work?
6. Do you have any brothers or sister?
7. What is most important to you in a relationship?
8. Do you like to read?  What was the last book you read?
9. Have you ever done any traveling?  Where?
10. What is your favorite restaurant?  Where?
user: Is it possible to perform in local theater while also pursuing a demanding career?

assistant: Yes, however there are many implications that should be thought through, as theater (even at the local, unpaid volunteer level) is a time-consuming and rigorous hobby. 1) Career choice. Restaurants, retail and other careers that required nights and weekends regularly often conflict with rehearsal and performance schedules, which are often all on nights and weekends. 2) Travel. Planned, infrequent travel can usually be planned around. But if your career requires spontaneous travel on a moments notice, it may be difficult for you to commit to the rehearsal and performance schedule, which is often planned months in advance.
user: Which characters belong to DC or Marvel Universe? Sif, Wonder Woman

assistant: Sif is Marvel, Wonder Woman is DC
user: Given the reference text about The Sun Also Rises, when was the book written and who wrote it?

The Sun Also Rises is a 1926 novel by American writer Ernest Hemingway, his first, that portrays American and British expatriates who travel from Paris to the Festival of San Fermín in Pamplona to watch the running of the bulls and the bullfights. An early modernist novel, it received mixed reviews upon publication. Hemingway biographer Jeffrey Meyers writes that it is now "recognized as Hemingway's greatest work" and Hemingway scholar Linda Wagner-Martin calls it his most important novel.[2][3] The novel was published in the United States in October 1926 by Scribner's. A year later, Jonathan Cape published the novel in London under the title Fiesta. It remains in print.

The novel is a roman à clef: the characters are based on people in Hemingway's circle and the action is based on events, particularly Hemingway's life in Paris in the 1920s and a trip to Spain in 1925 for the Pamplona festival and fishing in the Pyrenees. Hemingway presents his notion that the "Lost Generation"—considered to have been decadent, dissolute and irretrievably damaged by World War I—was in fact resilient and strong.[4] Hemingway investigates the themes of love and death, the revivifying power of nature and the concept of masculinity. His spare writing style, combined with his restrained use of description to convey characterizations and action, demonstrates his "Iceberg Theory" of writing.

assistant: The Sun Also Rises was written in 1926 by Ernest Hemingway.
user: Is Star Wars based on a book?

assistant: No, the Star Wars universe originated from the film series created by George Lucas beginning with 'Star Wars: A New Hope' in 1977. A number of books have been written based on the films or in the storyline created from them, but the original material was a film.
user: Identify which instrument is string or percussion: Claves, Rabeca

assistant: Rabeca is string, Claves is percussion.
user: Where did the first limited-overs cricket match take place?

In the 1960s, English county teams began playing a version of cricket with games of only one innings each and a maximum number of overs per innings. Starting in 1963 as a knockout competition only, limited-overs cricket grew in popularity and, in 1969, a national league was created which consequently caused a reduction in the number of matches in the County Championship. The status of limited overs matches is governed by the official List A categorisation. Although many "traditional" cricket fans objected to the shorter form of the game, limited-overs cricket did have the advantage of delivering a result to spectators within a single day; it did improve cricket's appeal to younger or busier people; and it did prove commercially successful.

The first limited-overs international match took place at Melbourne Cricket Ground in 1971 as a time-filler after a Test match had been abandoned because of heavy rain on the opening days. It was tried simply as an experiment and to give the players some exercise, but turned out to be immensely popular. limited-overs internationals (LOIs or ODIs—one-day internationals) have since grown to become a massively popular form of the game, especially for busy people who want to be able to see a whole match. The International Cricket Council reacted to this development by organising the first Cricket World Cup in England in 1975, with all the Test-playing nations taking part.

assistant: Melbourne Cricket Ground
user: When was the Stansfeld's death

Stansfeld began his career as a civil servant in HM Customs and Excise. In 1877, he moved to Oxford, and later matriculated as a student at Exeter College, where he studied Medicine, attaining his BA in 1889, MA in 1893 and qualified as a doctor in 1897. In 1897 he started the Oxford Medical Misson in Bermondsey, London, where he founded the Stansfeld Oxford & Bermondsey Club in the same year.[2] In 1909, he decided to take Holy Orders and studied part-time at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. He was appointed Vicar of St Anne's Church, Thoburn Square, Bermondsey in 1910, and then returned to Oxford in 1912 as Rector of St Ebbe's, Oxford then a slum district until his retirement in 1926. Stansfeld died at Spelsbury, Oxfordshire, aged 85 in December 1939. He campaigned successfully for the erection of a children's playground and public baths in St Ebbe's. His philanthropy is commemorated by a blue plaque in Paradise Square, unveiled in June 2009.[3][4][5]

assistant: Stansfeld died at Spelsbury, Oxfordshire, aged 85 in December 1939
user: Is there an answer to the universe?

assistant: According to the novel Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, the answer to life, the universe and everything is 42.
user: What are examples of famous plays written by William Shakespeare?

assistant: Famous plays written by William Shakespeare include Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth.
user: Where is Landscape Arch?

Landscape Arch is a natural rock arch in Arches National Park in the U.S. state of Utah. With a length of 290.1 feet (88.4 m), it is the longest natural arch in the park and the United States, and the fifth-longest in the world. Landscape Arch was named by Frank Beckwith, who explored the area in the winter of 1933–34 as the leader of a scientific expedition.

assistant: Landscape Arch is a natural rock arch in Arches National Park in the U.S. state of Utah.
user: Can you list some of the most successful empires in History?

assistant: Of course! Here are a few of the most successful empires in History:

- Roman Empire
- Mongol Empire
- British Empire
- Spanish Empire
- Portuguese Empire
- Ottoman Empire
- Russian Empire
user: How are racial categories used historically?

Racial categories have historically been used as a way to enable an oppressive figure or group to discriminate against other groups or individuals which were seen as different from that of the oppressor.[4] In nineteenth and early twentieth century Europe, artwork was a common form of racialization which targeted countries in the Middle East and Asia.[5] The artwork, predominantly paintings, were portrayed in order to instill prejudice in the Western populations through sexualizing and manipulating images.[5] One of the most prominent examples of Orientalist work in art is a piece by Eugène Delacroix titled Women of Algiers in their Apartment.[6] Dating back to 1834, it portrays three women resting in a harem in exotic clothing while an African woman is dressed in plain clothing, depicting her role as a servant.[6] Fine textiles, hookahs, and other paraphernalia adorn the room, which represents a European fantasy of an exotic scene.[6] Attempts to portray these cultures as strange, foreign and exotic through Orientalism led to intolerance towards the Arab and Asian communities in Europe and the United States.[5] Others argue that Delacroix, who travelled in North Africa sketching extensively, was depicting a realistic scene of the era based on his first-hand knowledge and experience. In such an interpretation the clothing, for example, is consistent with the times, as Arab North Africans dressed differently from Europeans, and kept black slaves who would not have been treated as equals.[7]

assistant: Historically, oppressive groups use racial categories to discriminate against other groups that are different from them.
user: Name some famous books on philosophy?

assistant: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl.
The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant.
The Republic by Plato.
Discourses by Epictetus.
user: Where was his Catholic school?

Waring was born John Roderick Rodriguez in Lewisham, London, into a respectable family of Portuguese ancestry, and attended a Catholic school in Southwark.

assistant: Southwark
user: Given this paragraph about the Ain Elzarga Wetland, why is this location one of the most important wetlands in the region?

Ain Elzarga Wetland is a Ramsar-protected wetland of Libya. It was established in 2000 and covers an area of 33 hectares (82 acres).[2][3] Ramsar says of it: "A small natural sebkha or depression with at least one natural connection to the sea, wet all year round but with increasing water levels and salinity during summer. The sebkha, with mudflats and salt marsh community, is surrounded by dunes from east to west and rocky hills to the south and east. The site is one of the most important wetlands in the area of the El Kouf National Park for migratory waterbirds. The birdwatching and ecotourism potential is considerable but undeveloped. Unsustainable hunting and destruction of vegetation, especially during summer, are considered threats.

assistant: The Ain Elzarga Wetland is an important wetland due to being the home for migratory waterbirds.