There is debate about when the term was first used. According theThe London Telegraph, the word is first found in print in a March 20, 1798 satirical newspaper article about what must have been a hell of a party. Of particular note, was the account of drinks imbibed by William Pitt (th...
Today I found out the origin of the word “soccer”. For all you out there who love to complain when Americans, and certain others, call “Football”, “Soccer”, you should know that it was the British that invented the word and it was also one of the first names of what we ...
Shorthand,a word that is represented by a single symbol or character. graphanalysis the reading of character or personality from a person’s handwriting.Cf. graphology. —graphanalyst,n. graphemics Linguistics.the study of systems of writing and their relationship to the systems of the languages ...
Before the entrance of evil there was peace and joy throughout the universe. All was in perfect harmony with the Creator's will. Love for God was supreme, love for one another impartial. Christ the Word, the Only Begotten of God, was one with the eternal Father,--one in nature, in c...
7. (Computer Science) computing a part of a computer program, such as a help facility, that can run in the background behind the current task or application, and which will only begin to work when certain conditions are met or when it is specifically invoked [C15: from Latin daemōn evil...
Sin defies explanation; it is a folly that does not have an origin in the true sense of the word, only a beginning. Attempting to locate the time of the fall, too, is impossible. Attempts to identify that time in the preformed chaos of Genesis 1:1 or in notions of preexistent souls...
Each morning, a colleague of mine greets me with the phrase: Top of the morning to you! I've tried to figure out what the meaning of this really is and how to properly respond, however there seems to be dozens of interpretations as to what this phrase actually means. Does...
Horror enthusiasts have something to look forward to as Kate Siegel (Hush) and David Dastmalchian (Late Night with the Devil) will be starring together in the upcoming zombie film Epilogue, which will be produced by one of the kings of horror, Mike Flanagan. Below, we shared all there is...
Die during the coming year Die before a certain birthday Hear the crying of a baby or scream of a woman Make a deal with the devil Sometimes, death comes a lot quicker. Usually, the person sharing the legend “knows” a person who knows someone this happened to. For example: “My cous...
We unified the interfaces of instruction-tuning data (e.g., CoT data), multiple LLMs and parameter-efficient methods (e.g., lora, p-tuning) together for easy use. We welcome open-source enthusiasts to initiate any meaningful PR on this repo and integrate