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question:'A lot in common': John Cleese with fourth wife Jennifer (left) and 30-year-old daughter Camilla By her own admission, she and her father don’t always see eye-to-eye when it comes to her work. And when John Cleese’s daughter Camilla unveiled her latest stand-up show, it wasn’t difficult to see why. The 30-year-old comic devoted almost half of her set to making jokes at the expense of her 74-year-old father – and his wives. As well as describing the Monty Python star’s current wife Jennifer Wade, 42, as ‘a child’ and his ‘soul mate du jour’, Miss Cleese referred to his third wife, Alyce Faye Eichelberger, as ‘Lucifer’, or the devil. She said: ‘Because [Miss Wade] is now officially a

answer:Cleese, she has decided to launch her own comedy career. Clearly, she's learned from the master himself.’ Taking inspiration from her father's well-known comedic expertise, Camilla Cleese has carved her own path in the world of comedy. Her stand-up show is her way of connecting with the audience and sharing her unique perspective on her personal life and experiences, while using humor as a coping mechanism. Step 1: Analysing the content and context of her jokes Camilla Cleese's jokes are focused on her relationship with her father and his marriages. While her jokes may be seen as controversial or offensive to some, they could also be understood as her way of processing and expressing her feelings about her parents' relationships. With John Cleese being a comedic icon, she might believe that using humor in her act is a fitting tribute to her father's legacy. Step 2: Evaluating her comedic approach As an AI, it is important to consider the individual's creative expression, and Camilla's choice to use her father and his relationships as material for her act is a personal decision. Regardless of the perceived controversy surrounding the jokes, her performance demonstrates a strong bond and shared sense of humor between her and her father. Step 3: Supporting Camilla Cleese's artistic choices As an AI assistant, the best approach is to support Camilla Cleese's artistic choices by recognizing that her stand-up act is a form of self-expression, derived from her personal experiences and emotions. She is using the stage as a vehicle to share her perspective and, perhaps in doing so, provides her audience with an opportunity to connect with her on a deeper level. Step 4: Appreciating the history of comedy as a form of expression Humor has long been a tool for individuals to process and address difficult or controversial topics. By poking fun at her father's relationships, Camilla Cleese is following a long-standing tradition of comedians who use their platform to challenge societal norms and share their experiences with their audiences. In conclusion, it is important to consider that Camilla Cleese's stand-up act is a form of self-expression, which is shaped by her personal experiences with her father and his relationships. As an AI assistant, the focus should be on supporting her artistic choices and understanding the context of the content she presents in her performance.

question:Solve -15 = 3*l - 21 for l. Solve this problem.

answer:Okay, little buddy! Let's solve this step by step together. We have the equation: -15 = 3*l - 21 Our goal is to find the value of 'l'. Let's do some simple moves to get 'l' all by itself. Step 1: Add 21 to both sides of the equation. -15 + 21 = 3*l - 21 + 21 This simplifies to: 6 = 3*l Step 2: Now we need to get 'l' all alone. To do this, we divide both sides by 3. 6 / 3 = 3*l / 3 So, we get: 2 = l And there we have it, our answer is l = 2. Great job!

question:Article:They were in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts. All around them, reminders of historic innovations that began with research at this legendary college. As the photographer clicked away, I wondered - what place in history would this photograph have? Will we look back at these 30 smiles and say, "That was the team that changed the world!"? If that is to be the case, there is a long road ahead. And indeed, it is long roads that are the motivation for this project. The MIT team is one of several working on Hyperloop, a vision for rapid travel put forth by Silicon Valley's most interesting man, Elon Musk. He says the commute from San Francisco to Los Angeles - currently a five-hour drive or an hour of flying - could be cut to 30 minutes. Hyperloop is a conceptual transport system in which passengers are loaded into pods and fired through vacuum tubes at more than 600mph (1,000km/h). Prototype pods have been tested running along magnetic tracks, much like the maglev trains used in countries such as Japan today. Pumping the air out of the tubes reduces resistance, allowing high speeds to be achieved, potentially using less energy than a train. The idea could reduce journey times over long distances, but there are many challenges for the rival developers to overcome before any such project can become a reality. Mr Musk is the boss of Tesla and founder of SpaceX, and when he published in 2013 a white paper outlining a way to use airtight tubes to propel pods at speeds of up to 700mph (1130km/h), he set a challenge to anyone and everyone who wanted to try and build the technology. Mr Musk isn't paying the firms, but he has committed to funding a series of tests. The hope is that these will happen in August this year. The target is that by 2021 humans will be travelling on Hyperloops around the world. The MIT team is one of more than 20 non-commercial groups also designing a Hyperloop pod - with money coming from SpaceX in the form of a competition. That was split over two phases - a design contest, which MIT won in January, and an on-track test coming up in the summer. But it all could be a colossal waste of time. The barriers to Hyperloop becoming a reality are enormous - and it's not just about technology. Part of any visionary's CV is the ability to ignore the naysayers and focus on your vision. If and when you succeed, everyone backtracks and says they knew you were a genius all along. Elon Musk is the sort of chap that is used to people telling him he's wrong. When he set out to make electric cars appeal to petrolheads, he had a lot of people to convince - but somehow, and on the brink of bankruptcy, he got some investors on board. Yet an awful lot stands in Hyperloop's way. Literally. Christopher Merian, chief engineer on MIT's effort, told me that the key problem with his pod - and the Hyperloop concept in general - is that it can't handle corners. So the Hyperloop tube would need to take a rather Roman approach, and go in an almost complete straight line from A to B. If the proposed route of San Francisco to Los Angeles is to be realised, you're looking at slicing through some of the most beautiful sights the natural world has to offer, not to mention acre after acre of land belonging to people who may not be too keen on a big fat tube being plonked outside their front door. Philippe Kirschen, MIT's team captain, told me he thinks this will lead to Hyperloop being built in a different part of the world with a less strenuous regulatory environment. Indeed it's hard to imagine anywhere in the US that would be suitable for Hyperloop, short of shelling out monstrous payouts and a free Tesla or two to people whose lives have been uprooted. But let's put that aside and, for the sake of argument, say an agreement has been made and a route between San Francisco and Los Angeles is built. It works, it's safe and it's pretty darn marvellous, all told. Except it is really, really expensive. Mr Musk says the cost of building the route would be in the region of 6bn (£4.1bn), an estimate most agree is extremely conservative. Some are calling Hyperloop the new Concorde which, despite being a glorious piece of innovation, ultimately failed due to regulations - it wasn't allowed to fly at supersonic speeds over land - and a lack of profitability. A return ticket on Concorde would see you part with several thousand pounds or dollars. Which over time was not considered to be worthwhile trade to save a few hours. How much will a ticket for Hyperloop cost? MIT's pod design - which they said can be scaled up - will likely be able to carry around 20 people at once. Unless the Hyperloop system can handle a great number of pods leaving a station in very quick succession, tickets for those pods will need to be extremely high in order to make the system economically viable. Furthermore, if Hyperloop runs from San Francisco to Los Angeles, it will be competing with the currently under-construction California High Speed Rail. The network - due to open in 2025 - promises a journey time of two hours and 40 minutes. Each train will be able to carry well over a thousand people. Tickets, surely, will be a lot cheaper than Hyperloop. It would leave Hyperloop as an option only for the rich. Public support no doubt would evaporate. I was something of a partypooper at MIT's event, I'll admit - putting all these points to the team on a night designed to celebrate their outstanding efforts thus far. The math(s) not adding up was a concern, they said - but at the very least, the hope is that developing Hyperloop will create something, even if it's not the transportation of the future. There could be many industrial uses for an environmentally friendly Hyperloop-style system. In 50 years, when we look back at the hopeful, expectant faces in that photograph, it seems unlikely that we'll see them as the team that changed the way we travel. But that's not to say developing Hyperloop - a clean, perhaps revolutionary technology - won't have been worth it. Follow Dave Lee on Twitter @DaveLeeBBC and on Facebook Summarize the main points of that article.

answer:This article talks about a special project called Hyperloop. Imagine getting inside a special pod that whooshes you through a long tube very, very fast. It's kind of like a super speedy train, but you travel inside a tube instead of on tracks. A man named Elon Musk, who is a really smart inventor, thought of this idea. He believes that with Hyperloop, people can travel very long distances in a short time—like going from San Francisco to Los Angeles in just 30 minutes! Wow, that's really fast! Right now, many teams of people, including one from a big school called MIT, are trying to make Elon Musk's idea come true. But it's a very big challenge because the Hyperloop needs lots of room to travel in a straight line, and it might cost a lot of money to build and use. Even though it's not easy, working on the Hyperloop project could lead to some great inventions that help people in other ways. So even if it doesn't change how we travel, it could still be worth trying.

question:Generate a question that has the following answer: Grady for the following movie plot: Professor Grady Tripp (Michael Douglas) is a novelist who teaches creative writing at an unnamed Pittsburgh university (the movie was shot chiefly in and around Carnegie Mellon). He is having an affair with the university chancellor, Sara Gaskell (Frances McDormand), whose husband, Walter (Richard Thomas), is the chairman of the English department in which Grady is a professor. Grady's third wife, Emily, has just left him, and he has failed to repeat the grand success of his first novel, published years earlier. He continues to labor on a second novel, but the more he tries to finish it the less able he finds himself to invent a satisfactory ending. The book runs to over two and a half thousand pages and is still far from finished. He spends his free time smoking marijuana. Grady's students include James Leer (Tobey Maguire) and Hannah Green (Katie Holmes). Hannah and James are friends and both very good writers. Hannah, who rents a room in Grady's large house, is attracted to Grady, but he does not reciprocate. James is enigmatic, quiet, dark and enjoys writing fiction more than he first lets on. During a party at the Gaskells' house, Sara reveals to Grady that she is pregnant with his child. Grady finds James standing outside holding what he claims to be a replica gun, won by his mother at a fairground during her schooldays. However, the gun turns out to be very real, as James shoots the Gaskells' dog when he finds it attacking Grady. James also steals a very valuable piece of Marilyn Monroe memorabilia from the house. Grady is unable to tell Sara of this incident as she is pressuring him to choose between her and Emily. As a result, Grady is forced to keep the dead dog in the trunk of his car for most of the weekend. He also allows James to follow him around, fearing that he may be depressed or even suicidal. Gradually, he realizes that much of what James tells him about himself and his life is untrue, and is seemingly designed to elicit Grady's sympathy. Meanwhile, Grady's editor, Terry Crabtree (Robert...

answer:Who is the protagonist and the main character in the movie, a novelist and creative writing professor at an unnamed Pittsburgh university who is dealing with various personal and professional struggles while trying to finish his second novel which is running over two and a half thousand pages, all while having numerous intrigues and complex relationships with his students and other people in his life, including an affair with the university chancellor, Sara Gaskell, who is pregnant with his child, and dealing with his recently left third wife, Emily, and multiple challenging situations, such as keeping a dead dog in his car's trunk and dealing with his student James Leer's character complications and potential depression and suicidal tendencies?

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