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Wolfram Alpha’s New Data about Pokémon

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Re: Wolfram Alpha’s New Data about Pokémon

#11

If only "pikachu versus bulbasaur" suggested the best strategy for each. :-D

Umm, that's a very unbalanced matchup, bulbasaur wins every time. Water > Electricity. If I recall, even a Raichu would lose to bulbasaur.

Probably shouldn't be posting this. :P

Re: Wolfram Alpha’s New Data about Pokémon

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post #11

If only "pikachu versus bulbasaur" suggested the best strategy for each. :-D

Umm, that's a very unbalanced matchup, bulbasaur wins every time. Water > Electricity. If I recall, even a Raichu would lose to bulbasaur. Probably shouldn't be posting this. :P

But Bulbasaur is grass / poison type. Electric is not very effective against grass, so Bulbasaur will have an advantage unless Pikachu avoids using its electric attacks.

Re: Wolfram Alpha’s New Data about Pokémon

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post #11

If only "pikachu versus bulbasaur" suggested the best strategy for each. :-D

Umm, that's a very unbalanced matchup, bulbasaur wins every time. Water > Electricity. If I recall, even a Raichu would lose to bulbasaur. Probably shouldn't be posting this. :P

Bulbasaur is a grass type Pokemon!

Re: Wolfram Alpha’s New Data about Pokémon

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Umm, that's a very unbalanced matchup, bulbasaur wins every time. Water > Electricity. If I recall, even a Raichu would lose to bulbasaur. Probably shouldn't be posting this. :P

But Bulbasaur is grass / poison type. Electric is not very effective against grass, so Bulbasaur will have an advantage unless Pikachu avoids using its electric attacks.

May have meant squirtle

Re: Wolfram Alpha’s New Data about Pokémon

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post #11

If only "pikachu versus bulbasaur" suggested the best strategy for each. :-D

Umm, that's a very unbalanced matchup, bulbasaur wins every time. Water > Electricity. If I recall, even a Raichu would lose to bulbasaur. Probably shouldn't be posting this. :P

Electric > Water

Earth & Rock > Electric

Bulbasour its Grass though :p Electric is not very effective against Grass. /endOfPokemonNerdComment

Re: Wolfram Alpha’s New Data about Pokémon

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Umm, that's a very unbalanced matchup, bulbasaur wins every time. Water > Electricity. If I recall, even a Raichu would lose to bulbasaur. Probably shouldn't be posting this. :P

But Bulbasaur is grass / poison type. Electric is not very effective against grass, so Bulbasaur will have an advantage unless Pikachu avoids using its electric attacks.

IIRC, neither one has an advantage or disadvantage against the other. It'd actually be an even match!

Edit: According to http://pokemondb.net/type , when Grass is attacking Electric, the attack is "normal," 100% of the damage takes. However, when Electric is attacking Grass, the attack is "not very effective," and only 50% of the damage takes.

So Bulbasaur is totally going to win this.

Re: Wolfram Alpha’s New Data about Pokémon

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The technology behind WolframAlpha is truly incredible. It's likely one of the most unvalued resources of our day.

yes and no. it's a tremendous amount of work to organize information and build associations between what you ask and what you get, although it certainly has a lot of gaps. it's also a neat way to look at how to combine information.

that said it's within grasp of many of us: natural language interfaces (NLI) and SPARQL databases and endpoints. have a look at this semanticweb q&a:

http://answers.semanticweb.com/questions/12747/natural-langu...

some good links in there. basically find your SPARQL endpoints, have a list of synonyms mapped between your inputs (which you parse with NLP tools like weka or the stanford parser, or even python's nltk) and map your query to your ontologie(s) from your endpoints. then try successive answers.

a good, simple interface to play around with that is quepy:

http://quepy.machinalis.com/

a few others exist.

hope that helps. despite challenges in the adoption rates of the semantic web, i think it's the future of information retrieval because it makes sense for us as users and truly organizes information.

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