the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_embeddings huggingface dataset:
Gladys Knight 
 1997: Gladys Knight received the Pinnacle Award during 5th Annual Trumpet Awards presentation in Atlanta, Georgia.
Gladys Knight 
 2007: Gladys Knight received Image Award for Outstanding Jazz Artist during The 38th NAACP Image Awards.
Gladys Knight 
 2007: Gladys Knight was declared the "Empress of Soul" and presented with the 16th Annual Ella Award by the Society of Singers.
Gladys Knight 
 2008: Gladys Knight and Stevie Wonder were presented with the Best Living Legend Award at the 1st Annual The BET Honors.
Gladys Knight 
 2008: Gladys Knight was honored by The National Black Arts Festival and The Coca Cola Company at the 2008 Legends Celebration.
Roman Urdu 
 It is used by a number of Urdu-speakers on the internet and computers due to the fact that the predominant internet language is English, which is written in roman script.
Quadrature mirror filter 
 The quadrature mirror filters (QMF) are two filters with frequency characteristics symmetric about  of sampling frequency (i.e. ).
Quadrature mirror filter 
 In notation of Z-transform, we can create the quadrature mirror filter  to (original) filter  by substitution  with  in the transfer function of .
Quadrature mirror filter 
 According to the picture above, the signal split and passed into these filters can be downsampled by a factor of two.
Neil Aspinall 
 In time, they began to pay him for this, and he gave up his studies to be their official road manager.
Neil Aspinall 
 Over time, other people helped with setting up and breaking down the Beatles' instruments and equipment, but Aspinall and Evans still supervised them.
Neil Aspinall 
 They also did other jobs, like shopping for the band, delivering important messages, and dealing with members of the public who wanted to meet the band.
Neil Aspinall 
 Some of their lesser-known jobs were choosing female audience members at Beatles concerts to visit the band backstage, and signing Beatles autographs on photographs. (
Neil Aspinall 
 When the Beatles stopped giving concerts, they put time into forming their own company, which became Apple Corps.
Neil Aspinall 
 None of the band's inner circle knew how to run a large company, and Apple got into financial trouble.
Neil Aspinall 
 Allen Klein and Lee Eastman (Paul McCartney's father-in-law) took over running Apple, and Evans was fired.
Neil Aspinall 
 After the Beatles disbanded, Apple's business decreased, Klein and Eastman moved on, and Apple was reorganized.
Neil Aspinall 
 Aspinall alone was able to handle most of Apple's ongoing business, which was mostly licensing Beatles-related products, and future issues of Beatles music.
Neil Aspinall 
 Aspinall's last tasks for Apple included handling a lawsuit against Apple Inc. over iTunes, and supervising a new recording of the whole Beatles music catalogue.
Caretaker (Star Trek: Voyager) 
 When it was first broadcast on TV, it was shown as a double-length episode (meaning it lasted for double the time a normal episode would last), however it has been split into two separate episodes so that it can be shown as a repeat.
Caretaker (Star Trek: Voyager) 
 This episode was first broadcast on January 16, 1995 and takes place on stardate 48315.6, in the year 2371.
Jean Balukas 
 Some people described her as a leader and "a child prodigy, a loner who rebelled against dress codes for women—the pool equivalent of Billie Jean King".
Jean Balukas 
 In 1999, Balukas was ranked fifteenth on Billiard Digest's Fifty Greatest Players of the 20th Century.
Jean Balukas 
 She first earned some fame when she was six years old by appearing in a pool playing event held at New York City's Grand Central Station.
Jean Balukas 
 She later appeared many times on television, such as on CBS's popular evening television show, I've Got a Secret.
Jean Balukas 
 She had over 100 professional competition first-place finishes; 38 of those wins were in major events.
Jean Balukas 
 She quit the sport in 1988 because of a dispute that happened in a match at the World Open Nine-ball Championship that year.
Jean Balukas 
 Jean Balukas's father, Albert Balukas, and his business partner, Frank McGown, owned a forty-eight-table pool hall, named the Ovington Lounge, in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, New York.
Jean Balukas 
 When she was five and six years old she would practice a game called straight pool to 50 points after family dinners.
Jean Balukas 
 Balukas and her younger sister Laura also appeared on CBS's television show I've Got a Secret later that year.
Jean Balukas 
 In 1967, Balukas was in an exhibition match at a pool hall called the Carom Club, located Manhattan.
Jean Balukas 
 In advertisements for the match, Balukas was described as "the Little Princess of Pocket Billiards".
Jean Balukas 
 A reporter described her at the match as "a little girl with honey-blond hair...wearing a short yellow dress and green leotards...who resembles a young Shirley Temple".
Jean Balukas 
 In 1969, at the age of nine, she competed in her first Billiard Congress of America U.S. Open Straight Pool Championship.
Jean Balukas 
 By that time, Balukas had appeared on other television programs with a number of billiard stars and other celebrities.
Jean Balukas 
 On August 18, 1972, when she was thirteen years old, Balukas won the women's side of the U.S. Open Straight Pool Championship.
Jean Balukas 
 She also beat in the finals, Madelyn Whitlow of Detroit, Michigan, with a score of 75 to 32 in 44 innings (turns at the table).
Jean Balukas 
 Reporting on the competition, The New York Times described her as a strong player "throughout the tournament ... as she defeated six opponents with precision shooting and [almost perfect] strategy".
Jean Balukas 
 She beat runner-up Donna Ries, a psychologist from Kansas City, Missouri, with a final score of 75 to 72 in 42 innings.
Jean Balukas 
 In the 1974 U.S. Open held at the Sheraton Hotel in Chicago, Balukas defended her title, again beating out Harada, but by a much closer score: 100 to 99.
Jean Balukas 
 The close scores at the end of the match were similar to the results on the men's side, where Joe Balsis defeated Jim Rempe 200 to 199.
Jean Balukas 
 In 1975, Balukas beat Ries again in the U.S. Open semi-finals with a score of 75 to 15 in 15 innings.
Jean Balukas 
 She then again played and beat Harada in the finals, winning $3,000 with a score of 100 to 63 in 39 innings.
Jean Balukas 
 In 1976, then 17, Balukas took her fifth U.S. Open title in a row, beating Gloria Walker of Cheyney, Pennsylvania 75 to 46 in 39 innings and winning a $1,700 prize.
Jean Balukas 
 Balukas would win the next two U.S. Open straight pool championships for a total of seven wins in a row.
Jean Balukas 
 Her streak of wins ended after 1978 because the U.S. Open itself was canceled, not because she was beaten.
Jean Balukas 
 In her first appearance in 1976, while a junior in high school, Balukas placed second with 192 points.
Jean Balukas 
 Other competitors included: diver Micki King; tennis and golf pro Althea Gibson; skier Kiki Cutter; runner Wyomia Tyus; and tennis champion Martina Navratilova.
Jean Balukas 
 Balukas has won many other pool titles, including six at the World Open Pocket Billiard Championships.
Jean Balukas 
 At her first win in that tournament, held at a convention hall in Asbury Park, New Jersey on August 14, 1977, she was described as "the 18-year-old prodigy from Brooklyn".
Jean Balukas 
 For example, she played with Willie Mosconi and Irving Crane who were together considered between 1941 and 1956 the "best in the world, flat out".
Jean Balukas 
 In 1975, she again played Willie Mosconi on CBS's Challenge of the Sexes, playing in games of eight-ball and nine-ball.
Jean Balukas 
 For the exhibition, the rules were changed to allow Balukas to have an advantage (a practice called "handicapping").
Jean Balukas 
 She would later play "Battle of the Sexes" matches on television with Rudolph Wanderone (also known as Minnesota Fats) in 1977, Ray Martin in 1979, and with Steve Mizerak in 1986.
Jean Balukas 
 On August 6, 1978, Balukas became the first women to qualify to play in the men's side of the World Open Pocket Billiards Championship.
Jean Balukas 
 These included at least one first shown on TV on March 25, 1979, between her and men's champion Ray Martin.
Jean Balukas 
 Other male-female matchups in the series were between golfers Nancy Lopez and Andy North and co-ed participants in a skateboarding challenge match.
Jean Balukas 
 During 1980, Balukas again competed in the men's side of the World Open Pocket Billiards championship.
Jean Balukas 
 Balukas was entered in both the men's and women's divisions of the 1987 B.C. Classic, a nine-ball competition.
Jean Balukas 
 In August 1987, at the yearly B.C. Classic held at a Holiday Inn in Binghamton, New York, Balukas was scheduled to play in the men's and women's tournaments.
Jean Balukas 
 After arriving, she found out that for the nighttime matches, she would be required to wear formal clothing.
Jean Balukas 
 Some people said that the real reason other players voted her out was because they would have a better chance of winning the first place USD $5,000 prize if Balukas did not play.
Jean Balukas 
 Soon after the dress code issue was reported on, the president of the Women's Professional Billiard Association (WPBA), Belinda Bearden, sent a letter to The New York Times.
Jean Balukas 
 They made the rules to improve the image of women's pool and to attract a larger audience and more press to the sport.
Jean Balukas 
 However, after they asked a player who was absent from the first vote, Balukas withdrew from the women's division of the competition.
Jean Balukas 
 In 1988, Balukas was playing another professional player named Robin Bell the Brunswick-sponsored World Open Nine-ball Championship.
Jean Balukas 
 The tournament was held at Caesars Palace (a casino and hotel) in Las Vegas, Nevada and shown on television.
Jean Balukas 
 The game is over and the first player wins if they put the 9 ball in a pocket when they take the first shot.
Jean Balukas 
 All television match players wore small microphones so that their words and the sounds of play could be heard by the audience.
Jean Balukas 
 According to an interview with Balukas by New York Woman magazine in 1991, Balukas's exact words were "Some world championship... beat me with skill, not luck".
Jean Balukas 
 Despite Bell and Balukas's friendship, after the match Bell made a formal complaint to the WPBA about the incident.
Jean Balukas 
 Balukas explained that "It wasn’t the $200... [Women] pool players, who were ranked three and six and five, were the ones who decided I should be fined.
Jean Balukas 
 Just because she was our premier player does not mean she was above the rules", said Vicki Paski in 1992, then president of the WPBA.
Jean Balukas 
 Her feelings were more mixed: "Her not playing is, I guess, sad", but she also said that without Balukas playing, "we've all learned how to win".
Jean Balukas 
 They said it was not fair that she got to play on both the men's and women's side, when the men could only play on their own side.
Jean Balukas 
 However, after she traveled to the tournament she learned she had been tricked: "I found out that the first- and second-place winners in the women’s event were going to be invited to play in the men’s event.
Jean Balukas 
 After she reached the very top of her profession, "That's when I started getting nervous... that’s when I started putting a lot of pressure on myself". "
Jean Balukas 
 Playing against the men, I learned to lose,... but [losing] hurt with the women because I was expected to win all the time".
Jean Balukas 
 Balukas later said that leaving the sport was a combination of many things, including: stress, fatigue, frustration, and anger at the professional pool industry.
Jean Balukas 
 She took over management of her family's pool hall, Hall of Fame Billiards on Ovington Avenue in Brooklyn.
Jean Balukas 
 In summing up these events in a 1992 article, The New York Times stated, "So America's greatest woman pool player competes only for the odd soda.
Jean Balukas 
 In 1975, when she was fifteen years old, Balukas was already described as the "best female pool player in the world".
Jean Balukas 
 Announcers had stopped calling Balukas "the Little Princess", but introduced her to audiences as "the Queen".
Jean Balukas 
 By that time she had won the World Straight Pool Championship women's division eight of the last nine years.
Jean Balukas 
 In 1999, Balukas was ranked number fifteen on Billiard Digest's Fifty Greatest Players of the Century.
New York State Route 308 
 It goes through mostly rural areas, and is usually used as a shortcut from U.S. Route 9 (US 9) to New York State Route 9G. The road passes several landmarks along its path.
New York State Route 308 
 This trail went from the Hudson River to Lake Sepasco, and followed the same path that currently exists as Route 308.
New York State Route 308 
 Part of NY 308 is in the Rhinebeck Village Historic District, which is a  area that has 272 historical buildings.
New York State Route 308 
 There are many small lakes around the road as it intersects with County Route 52 and turns to the northeast.
New York State Route 308 
 The word Sepasco probably came from the tribe's word for "little river" or "stream", which is sepuus.
New York State Route 308 
 Part of the trail from Rhinebeck to Lake Sepasco follows about the same path that is today taken by Route 308.
New York State Route 308 
 The trail was there until 1802, when a turnpike, a type of road, was built over it "for improving and making a road from the west line of the Town of Salisbury in the State of Connecticut to the Susquehannah River at or near the Town of Jericho".
New York State Route 308 
 The part of the new turnpike east of the Hudson River was sometimes known as the Ulster and Salisbury Turnpike.
New York State Route 308 
 The sign marked the crossing of the Kings Highway (now called US 9) and the Ulster and Salisbury Turnpike.
Grand Central Terminal 
 Grand Central Terminal (GCT) — often called Grand Central Station or simply Grand Central — is a train station in New York City.
Grand Central Terminal 
 Located at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, it is the largest train station in the world by number of platforms.
Grand Central Terminal 
 The first station at this site was built in 1871 by the New York Central Railroad at a time when there were many long-distance passenger trains in the United States which most people took to move across the country.
Grand Central Terminal 
 In 1913 the station was rebuilt and given its current name, "Grand Central Terminal", but today many people call it "Grand Central Station".
Grand Central Terminal 
 In fact, "Grand Central Station" is the name of the nearby post office, and of a New York City Subway station underneath.
Grand Central Terminal 
 Grand Central Station covers an area of 48 acres and has 44 platforms on two levels, with 67 tracks along them.
Grand Central Terminal 
 All of them are built underground at the end of a long tunnel under Park Avenue, where trains have to change from diesel to electric power using a third rail to avoid problems with exhaust.
Grand Central Terminal 
 These platforms serve commuters traveling on the Metro-North Railroad to Westchester County, New York, Putnam County, New York, and Dutchess County, New York in New York State, and Fairfield County, Connecticut and New Haven County, Connecticut in the state of Connecticut.
Grand Central Terminal 
 By December 2022, the Long Island Rail Road will be extended to a new station at Grand Central, below the existing platforms.
Samuel P. Taylor State Park 
 The park contains about  of old-growth forest, some of which can be seen along the Pioneer Tree Trail.
Pedernales, Dominican Republic 
 Pedernales is a Dominican city and the capital of the Pedernales province, in the southwest of the country close to the border with Haiti.
Pedernales, Dominican Republic 
 The name of "Pedernales" was given to the town when it was founded because that was the name of the river that now is the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Pedernales, Dominican Republic 
 Before the conquest of the island by European people, some native groups lived around the place where the city of Pedernales is now.
Pedernales, Dominican Republic 
 But soon those groups disappeared and very few people came to live here because it is a very dry region.
Pedernales, Dominican Republic 
 When the French colony of Saint-Domingue (present Haiti) was created, the Pedernales river was the southern border between that colony and the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo (present Dominican Republic).
Pedernales, Dominican Republic 
 During those colonial times, some soldiers came here for some time but almost nobody lived here for a long time.
Pedernales, Dominican Republic 
 In 1927, the Dominican government brought farmers from other places of the country and made a town for them; the new town was given the name of Pedernales and its first administrator was Sócrates Nolasco who later became a well-known writer.
Pedernales, Dominican Republic 
 The town became, in 1938, a municipal district (an administrative division of a municipality in the Dominican Republic) of Enriquillo, province of Barahona.
Pedernales, Dominican Republic 
 When the Pedernales province was created in 1957, the town of Pedernales became the capital of the new province.
Pedernales, Dominican Republic 
 The only rivers in the municipality, and in the province, are the Pedernales river and its tributary Mulito.
Pedernales, Dominican Republic 
 Sierra de Bahoruco ("Bahoruco mountain range") is in the northern half of the municipality; its highest mountain, and the highest mountain of the province, is Loma del Toro,  above sea level, in the limits with the Independencia province.
Pedernales, Dominican Republic 
 The municipality has a total area of  and has only one municipal district (a subdivision of a municipality): José Francisco Peña Gómez.
Pedernales, Dominican Republic 
 The municipality of Pedernales has the Independencia Province to the north, the Barahona Province to the east, the municipality of Oviedo to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the south and Haiti to the west.
Pedernales, Dominican Republic 
 Pedernales has a subtropical steppe/low-latitude semi-arid hot climate (Köppen-Geiger classification: BSh).
Pedernales, Dominican Republic 
 The month with the most precipitation on average is September with  of rainfall, followed by October with .
Pedernales, Dominican Republic 
 The month with the least rainfall on average is January with an average of  followed by February with an average of .
Pedernales, Dominican Republic 
 But the main economic activity is farming, mainly on the mountains, where coffee and beans are important products.
Pedernales, Dominican Republic 
 Fishing is also an important activity in the province, mainly close to the Beata Island, where lobster, conch and several kind of fishes are caught.
Pedernales, Dominican Republic 
 Tourism is becoming an important economic activity because there are several beautiful beaches with white sand, like Cabo Rojo and Bahía de las Águilas.
Pedernales, Dominican Republic 
 There are two of the largest national parks of the country: the Jaragua National Park and the Sierra de Bahoruco National Park.
Pedernales, Dominican Republic 
 Mining of limestone to send to other countries and for a cement factory is another important economic activity in the municipality.
Mohican 
 The Mahicans (also Mohicans) are a Native American tribe, who originally settled around the Hudson River.
Mohican 
 Many then moved to Massachusetts after 1780, before the remaining descendants moved to  northeastern Wisconsin during the 1820s and 1830s.
Heaviside Function 
 The Heaviside function, often written as H(x), is a non-continuous function whose value is zero for a negative input and one for a positive input.
Heaviside Function 
 The function is used in the mathematics of control theory to represent a signal that switches on at a specified time, and which stays switched on indefinitely.
Heaviside Function 
 We can also define an alternative form of the Heaviside step function as a function of a discrete variable n:
Descriptive statistics 
 The data may be summarized by computing some characterising values, like the "center" of the data, and the "spread".
Descriptive statistics 
 In some cases the different items of data will be grouped and the groups will be described, in some way.
Inference (statistics) 
 Examples would be the randomness of the data, observational errors,  sampling variation, and other issues.
Inference (statistics) 
 For the most part, statistical inference makes statements about populations, using data drawn from the population of interest by some form of random sampling.
Inference (statistics) 
 That is an interval from a dataset such that, under repeated sampling, the interval would contain the true parameter value with the probability at the stated confidence level
Inference (statistics) 
 a credible interval; i.e., a set of values containing, for example, 95% of samples would include the true value of the parameter.
2007 United Kingdom floods 
 The 2007 floods in the United Kingdom were a series of major floods that happened in many places across the country during June and July 2007.
2007 United Kingdom floods 
 It is estimated that 13 people were killed and nearly all of Gloucestershire was trapped in their homes for the summer holidays.
2007 United Kingdom floods 
 Significant damage to most properties in the area with nearly 50,000 homes affected, with people losing treasured, personal belongings and made homeless- staying with friends or relatives and 850 families had to stay in caravans, some up to Christmas 2008.
Ryuichi Sugiyama 
 After graduating from Meiji University, he joined Japan Soccer League club Mitsubishi Motors in 1966.
Ryuichi Sugiyama 
 In his 8 seasons, he played all matches except 1 game in 1970 season and he was selected Best Eleven in all seasons.
Ryuichi Sugiyama 
 On May 28, 1961, during Rōnin for university, Sugiyama debuted for the Japan national team against Malaya.
Gallup's List of Widely Admired People 
 Gallup's List of Widely Admired People is a poll of United States citizens to tell the names of the individuals whom they most admire.
Flynn effect 
 The rise in most industrialized countries where IQ testing has long been commonplace is about three IQ points per decade.
Flynn effect 
 The only way to compare the difficulty of two versions is to have a group of people take both tests.
Flynn effect 
 It might therefore be expected that the biggest gains occur with school-related content, such as vocabulary, arithmetic or general information.
Flynn effect 
 Just the opposite is the case: abilities such as these have had small gains and occasional declines over the years.
Flynn effect 
 The largest changes appear  on general intelligence factor loaded (g-loaded) tests such as Raven's Progressive Matrices, instead.
Flynn effect 
 For example, Dutch soldiers gained 21 points in only 30 years, or 7 points per decade, between 1952 and 1982.
Flynn effect 
 Some studies focused on the distribution of scores have found that the Flynn effect mainly occurs with lower scores.
Flynn effect 
 However, Raven (2000) found that a lot of data must be re-interpreted with respect to the date of birth.
Flynn effect 
 Previously, this data had been interpreted to show that many abilities decrease when people get older.
Flynn effect 
 This data must now be interpreted to show that many abilities had in fact increased dramatically, as Flynn predicted.
Flynn effect 
 the gains were concentrated in the lower half of the distribution and negligible in the top half, and
Flynn effect 
 In 1995 he was the head of a task force of the American Psychological Association, charged with writing a statement on where intelligence research was.
Flynn effect 
 He estimates that if American children of 1932 could take an IQ test normed in 1997 their average IQ would have been only about 80.
Flynn effect 
 In other words, half of the children in 1932 would be classified as having borderline mental retardation or worse in 1997.