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Is it Pokemon or Big Data? (2016)

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Re: Is it Pokemon or Big Data? (2016)

#13
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...).

Re: Is it Pokemon or Big Data? (2016)

#16
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

Re: Is it Pokemon or Big Data? (2016)

#17

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).

I feel caught red handed

Re: Is it Pokemon or Big Data? (2016)

#18
post #13

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... ).

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

Re: Is it Pokemon or Big Data? (2016)

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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

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