Is it Pokemon or Big Data? (2016)

https://pixelastic.github.io/pokemonorbigdata/

by misterdata • 8 years ago

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lelabo_42• 8 years ago

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

k_• 8 years 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• 8 years 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• 8 years ago

keep going and you will be given a score in the end.

saagarjha• 8 years 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).

atipmt• 8 years ago

I feel caught red handed

codethief• 8 years ago

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

akuji1993• 8 years ago

That is a really useful site to clear some things up. Amazon should probably post this themselves.

virtualpain• 8 years ago

Is there are similar thing but for GCP? Or at least comparison of GCP and AWS with simple descriptions.

jpatokal• 8 years ago

Yes there is!

https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/map-aws-google-cloud-plat...

Disclaimer: I work at GCP (but didn't write that).

actionowl• 8 years ago

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

r_singh• 8 years ago

The appropriate thing to do would be to mark both as correct and to mention the same in the response.

red_admiral• 8 years ago

A trademark lawsuit?

stared• 8 years ago

Or: Elf or prescription drug: 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/ (and example for generating names: https://pytorch.org/tutorials/intermediate/char_rnn_generati...).

misterdata• 8 years 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

Vinnl2• 8 years ago

10/10 so far. Love the animations though!

JunaidBhai• 8 years ago

Finally I get to put my Pokemon knowledge to use.

NegatioN• 8 years ago

This should probably have a year tag on it or something. The last commit was in 2016: 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=10622752

stochastic_monk• 8 years ago

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

neuralhacker• 8 years ago

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

franciscop• 8 years 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)

Vinnl2• 8 years ago

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

(Make your own at https://partyquizzes.com/quizzes/create)

nayuki• 8 years ago

Fun coincidence for MATLAB programmers out there:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/numel.html

https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Numel_(Pok%C3%A9mon)

Is it Pokemon or Big Data? (2016)

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