6 ms·

Is it Pokemon or Big Data? (2016)

168 points by misterdata 8y ago

lelabo_42 8y ago
Would be cool to have a score like how many times did you play and how many did you guess right.
- k_ 8y ago
  Exactly what I was missing after 15~20 questions (and then I left) Seemed easy at first (got the first 5 right), but I guess that was mostly luck because I got a lot of the next ones wrong. Edit: being from France, pokemon here have different names, making the english names less recognizable (I never played the games anyway so that doesn't change much for me)
  - titanix2 8y ago
    French here too but playing Pokemon Go in English. After a while I can recognize most names but I still think the French names are funnier. The translation team did a real good job. Also, a lot a English names are straight coming from Japanese (e.g. Zubat) which make use of some English in the first place, so there is a bit less creativity on this side.
- ycombinator_usr 8y ago
  keep going and you will be given a score in the end.
saagarjha 8y ago
Protip: each of the things has a (occasionally humorous) description, so don't just blow past everything because you're excited to find a use for the 500 Pokémon you had memorized by heart ten years ago (no personal experience involved here at all /s).
- deleted 8y ago
  [deleted]
- atipmt 8y ago
  I feel caught red handed
deleted 8y ago
[deleted]
codethief 8y ago
Speaking of which… https://www.expeditedssl.com/aws-in-plain-english https://www.expeditedssl.com/aws-in-plain-english
- akuji1993 8y ago
  That is a really useful site to clear some things up. Amazon should probably post this themselves.
- virtualpain 8y ago
  Is there are similar thing but for GCP? Or at least comparison of GCP and AWS with simple descriptions.
  - jpatokal 8y ago
    Yes there is! https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/map-aws-google-cloud-platform https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/map-aws-google-cloud-plat... Disclaimer: I work at GCP (but didn't write that).
actionowl 8y ago
What happens when a big data project names itself after a Pokemon?!
- r_singh 8y ago
  The appropriate thing to do would be to mark both as correct and to mention the same in the response.
- red_admiral 8y ago
  A trademark lawsuit?
stared 8y ago
Or: Elf or prescription drug: http://quizzes.howstuffworks.com/quiz/drug-or-tolkien-elf-quiz http://quizzes.howstuffworks.com/quiz/drug-or-tolkien-elf-qu... As a side note - I would love to see something like that automatically generated (with LSTMs or), in the spirit of http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/ http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/ (and example for generating names: https://pytorch.org/tutorials/intermediate/char_rnn_generation_tutorial.html https://pytorch.org/tutorials/intermediate/char_rnn_generati...).
- misterdata 8y ago
  Actually made this a little while ago for Dutch municipality names. Works quite well as even Dutch people get confused about which ones are real. https://diasli.de/848 https://diasli.de/848
  - Vinnl 8y ago
    10/10 so far. Love the animations though!
Kenji 8y ago
Oh my god, this is hilarious. I love whoever made this <3
JunaidBhai 8y ago
Finally I get to put my Pokemon knowledge to use.
NegatioN 8y ago
This should probably have a year tag on it or something. The last commit was in 2016: https://github.com/pixelastic/pokemonorbigdata https://github.com/pixelastic/pokemonorbigdata The brunt of the commits seem to be from 2015. It has been posted multiple times under the same name before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7683428 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7683428 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10622752 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10622752
- stochastic_monk 8y ago
  I remember seeing this in 2015. Thank you for digging, my experience corroborates your findings.
neuralhacker 8y ago
That reminds me this https://streamable.com/h7ck9 https://streamable.com/h7ck9
franciscop 8y ago
I was thinking about naming some of my npm libraries after pokemons! But then found all of the good ones were already taken, so I switched to Spanish/Japanese words (I'm a Spaniard living in Tokyo)
Vinnl 8y ago
Ha, I love these. Shamelessly plugging this PWA I recently made that allows you to create your own: https://partyquizzes.com https://partyquizzes.com (Make your own at https://partyquizzes.com/quizzes/create https://partyquizzes.com/quizzes/create)
nayuki 8y ago
Fun coincidence for MATLAB programmers out there: https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/numel.html https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/numel.html https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Numel_(Pok%C3%A9mon) https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Numel_(Pok%C3%A9mon)

168 points by misterdata 8y ago

lelabo_42 8y ago

Would be cool to have a score like how many times did you play and how many did you guess right.

k_ 8y ago
Exactly what I was missing after 15~20 questions (and then I left) Seemed easy at first (got the first 5 right), but I guess that was mostly luck because I got a lot of the next ones wrong. Edit: being from France, pokemon here have different names, making the english names less recognizable (I never played the games anyway so that doesn't change much for me)
- titanix2 8y ago
  French here too but playing Pokemon Go in English. After a while I can recognize most names but I still think the French names are funnier. The translation team did a real good job. Also, a lot a English names are straight coming from Japanese (e.g. Zubat) which make use of some English in the first place, so there is a bit less creativity on this side.
ycombinator_usr 8y ago
keep going and you will be given a score in the end.

saagarjha 8y ago

Protip: each of the things has a (occasionally humorous) description, so don't just blow past everything because you're excited to find a use for the 500 Pokémon you had memorized by heart ten years ago (no personal experience involved here at all /s).

deleted 8y ago
[deleted]
atipmt 8y ago
I feel caught red handed

deleted 8y ago

[deleted]

codethief 8y ago

Speaking of which… https://www.expeditedssl.com/aws-in-plain-english https://www.expeditedssl.com/aws-in-plain-english

akuji1993 8y ago
That is a really useful site to clear some things up. Amazon should probably post this themselves.
virtualpain 8y ago
Is there are similar thing but for GCP? Or at least comparison of GCP and AWS with simple descriptions.
- jpatokal 8y ago
  Yes there is! https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/map-aws-google-cloud-platform https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/map-aws-google-cloud-plat... Disclaimer: I work at GCP (but didn't write that).

actionowl 8y ago

What happens when a big data project names itself after a Pokemon?!

r_singh 8y ago
The appropriate thing to do would be to mark both as correct and to mention the same in the response.
red_admiral 8y ago
A trademark lawsuit?

stared 8y ago

Or: Elf or prescription drug: http://quizzes.howstuffworks.com/quiz/drug-or-tolkien-elf-quiz http://quizzes.howstuffworks.com/quiz/drug-or-tolkien-elf-qu... As a side note - I would love to see something like that automatically generated (with LSTMs or), in the spirit of http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/ http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/ (and example for generating names: https://pytorch.org/tutorials/intermediate/char_rnn_generation_tutorial.html https://pytorch.org/tutorials/intermediate/char_rnn_generati...).

misterdata 8y ago
Actually made this a little while ago for Dutch municipality names. Works quite well as even Dutch people get confused about which ones are real. https://diasli.de/848 https://diasli.de/848
- Vinnl 8y ago
  10/10 so far. Love the animations though!

Kenji 8y ago

Oh my god, this is hilarious. I love whoever made this <3

JunaidBhai 8y ago

Finally I get to put my Pokemon knowledge to use.

NegatioN 8y ago

This should probably have a year tag on it or something. The last commit was in 2016: https://github.com/pixelastic/pokemonorbigdata https://github.com/pixelastic/pokemonorbigdata The brunt of the commits seem to be from 2015. It has been posted multiple times under the same name before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7683428 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7683428 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10622752 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10622752

stochastic_monk 8y ago
I remember seeing this in 2015. Thank you for digging, my experience corroborates your findings.

neuralhacker 8y ago

That reminds me this https://streamable.com/h7ck9 https://streamable.com/h7ck9

franciscop 8y ago

I was thinking about naming some of my npm libraries after pokemons! But then found all of the good ones were already taken, so I switched to Spanish/Japanese words (I'm a Spaniard living in Tokyo)

Vinnl 8y ago

Ha, I love these. Shamelessly plugging this PWA I recently made that allows you to create your own: https://partyquizzes.com https://partyquizzes.com (Make your own at https://partyquizzes.com/quizzes/create https://partyquizzes.com/quizzes/create)

nayuki 8y ago

Fun coincidence for MATLAB programmers out there: https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/numel.html https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/numel.html https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Numel_(Pok%C3%A9mon) https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Numel_(Pok%C3%A9mon)