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HotpotQA
HotpotQA is a 2018 question answering dataset of 113k Wikipedia question-answer pairs, built by researchers at Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, and Université de Montréal, requiring multi-hop reasoning over multiple supporting documents.
Hotspot (geology)
A hotspot is a volcanic region, usually far from plate boundaries, where magma rises from a fixed source, leaving trails of volcanoes like Hawaii, Iceland, and Yellowstone.
HotSpot Therapeutics
HotSpot Therapeutics is a private Boston biotechnology company, founded in 2017, that uses machine learning to find allosteric "regulatory hotspots" on proteins and develop oral small-molecule drugs against them.
Hotta Masayoshi
Hotta Masayoshi (堀田正睦, 1810–1864) was a Japanese statesman and lord of Sakura Domain who, as chief minister, negotiated the Harris treaty with the United States in 1858.
Hottah
Hottah usually means Hottah Lake, a large dimictic lake (842.81 km²) on the Camsell River in the Northwest Territories, Canada, with Tłı̨chǫ name origin, 1950s uranium mining, and a commercial trout and whitefish fishery; also a smaller namesake lake in British Columbia and the Hottah terrane.
Hottentot (racial term)
Hottentot, also Hottentotten or Afrikaans Hotnot, is a colonial-era racial exonym for the Khoikhoi (Khoekhoe) peoples of southern Africa, coined in 1670s Dutch from syllables imitating click speech, now offensive and replaced by Khoikhoi.
Hotter than Hell (album)
Hotter than Hell is Kiss's second studio album, released October 22, 1974 on Casablanca, recorded at the Village Recorder in Los Angeles with Kerner and Wise, peaking at No. 100 but later revered by fans and grunge bands.
Hotter than July
Stevie Wonder's nineteenth studio album, Hotter than July, Tamla, 1980; Billboard 200 #3, UK #2, RIAA Platinum; singles Master Blaster (Jammin'), Lately; closes with King-holiday anthem Happy Birthday.
Hottest chili pepper
Hottest chili pepper: Pepper X, bred by Ed Currie of PuckerButt Pepper Company, holds the Guinness record since October 2023 at 2,693,000 SHU average, dethroning the Carolina Reaper (1.64 million SHU).
Hottomont tumulus
Hottomont tumulus (Tombe d'Hottomont), a Gallo-Roman burial mound at Grand-Rosière-Hottomont, Ramillies, Belgium; about 11.5 m high and 50 m wide on the Bavay-Cologne Roman road; excavated 1932; legend of General Otto unproven; protected since 1971.
Hotu and Kamarband Caves
The Hotu and Kamarband Caves are prehistoric cave sites near Behshahr, Iran, excavated by Carleton S. Coon in 1949 and 1951 and occupied from about 12000 BC onward.
Hotung family
Hotung family (何东家族), prominent Hong Kong Eurasian merchant dynasty descended from trader Walter Bosman. Patriarch Sir Robert Ho Tung (1862-1956), 'grand old man of Hong Kong'; descendants include Eric and Sir Joseph Hotung, major philanthropists.
Hotwheels sisyphus
Hotwheels sisyphus is a ground spider (Gnaphosidae) described in 2024 from southwest China, the only species of the genus Hotwheels, named for the Hot Wheels toy brand and Sisyphus because of its coiled genitalia.
Hotwire (web framework)
Hotwire is a web development approach from 37signals that builds modern web apps with little custom JavaScript by sending rendered HTML rather than JSON over the network.
Hou Andou
Hou Andou (侯安都) was a general of China's Chen dynasty who helped Chen Baxian take power, defended Jiankang, and rose to Minister of Works before his forced death in 563.
Hou Chibi Fu
Hou Chibi Fu (後赤壁賦) is a prose rhapsody written by Su Shi in 1082 during his exile at Huangzhou, the companion to his First Red Cliff Rhapsody.
Hou Dejian (侯德建)
Hou Dejian (侯德健, born 1956) is a Taiwanese singer-songwriter, writer of 'Descendants of the Dragon' (1978), who moved illegally to Beijing in 1983, joined the 1989 Tiananmen hunger strike as one of the Four Gentlemen, and was deported to Taiwan in 1990.
Hou Jing
Hou Jing (侯景) was a general of the Northern and Southern dynasties who served Northern Wei, Eastern Wei, and Liang, then rebelled against the Liang, sacked its capital, and usurped the throne.
Hou Jing's defection from Eastern Wei
Hou Jing's defection from Eastern Wei was his 547 rebellion while holding Henan, drawing Eastern Wei, Western Wei, and Liang into a contest for the region.
Hou Jing's rebellion
Hou Jing's rebellion (侯景之乱) was a revolt by the defector general Hou Jing against the Liang dynasty, capturing the capital Jiankang in 548 and devastating Jiangnan.
Hou Jun Cheng
Hou Jun Cheng (侯军呈), born in 1964 in Wenzhou, is a Chinese cosmetics entrepreneur who founded and chairs Proya, China's largest domestic beauty company by revenue.
Hou Junji
Hou Junji (侯君集) was a Tang dynasty general and Minister of War who destroyed the kingdom of Gaochang and was executed in 643 for joining a plot by the heir apparent Cheng Gan.
Hou Weigui
Hou Weigui (侯为贵) is a Chinese engineer and entrepreneur who founded ZTE, the Shenzhen telecom equipment maker, in 1985 and led it as president and then chairman until retiring in 2016.
Hou Xun
Hou Xun (侯恂) was a late Ming dynasty official under the Chongzhen emperor, remembered as the patron of general Zuo Liangyu and for defending Kaifeng against Li Zicheng.
Hou Yi
Hou Yi (侯毅) is a Chinese retail entrepreneur who founded the Freshippo fresh-food supermarket chain inside Alibaba in 2015 and led it as chief executive until retiring in 2024.
Hou Yifan (侯逸凡)
Hou Yifan (侯逸凡), born 1994, is a Chinese chess grandmaster and four-time Women's World Chess Champion who became the youngest female grandmaster at 14 and the youngest women's world champion at 16.
Hou Yu-ih (侯友宜)
Hou Yu-ih (侯友宜), KMT politician and former National Police Agency director-general, mayor of New Taipei City since 2018 (57.1% win in 2018, 62.4% in 2022); lost Taiwan's January 13, 2024 presidential election to William Lai as the KMT nominee on a 3D strategy of deterrence, dialogue, and de-escalation.
Hou Yuon
Hou Yuon (ហ៊ូ យន់) was a Cambodian Marxist politician who served as a minister in the Khmer Rouge government and was killed by the regime in 1975 or 1976.
Hou Yuzhu
Hou Yuzhu (侯玉珠), Chinese volleyball outside hitter born 1963 in Yongtai, Fujian; Fujian club player and national team member 1983–1988 who won 1984 Olympic gold and 1988 Olympic bronze.
Hou Zhi
Hou Zhi (侯芝, 1764–1829), courtesy name Ruzhi, was a Qing-dynasty woman writer from Jiangning, now Nanjing, who edited, rewrote, and published tanci fiction, including the 1821 printed edition of Zaisheng yuan.