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Wolfram Alpha’s New Data about Pokémon
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Re: Wolfram Alpha’s New Data about Pokémon
#32If only "pikachu versus bulbasaur" suggested the best strategy for each. :-D
I'm going to say Bulbasaur has the edge here. Pikachu has a pretty decent speed stat, but it doesn't have access to many worthwhile moves. Let's talk about the build you'd use to pretty decisively beat a Pikachu. Pikachu's common passive ability 'Static' means that it can potentially inflict paralysis when hit with physical moves. On top of that, Bulbasaur has a fairly high Special Attack stat, so it'd be a good idea…
Great analysis, looks like someone is a Pokemon master.
Re: Wolfram Alpha’s New Data about Pokémon
#33All I have to say is that is awesome
Re: Wolfram Alpha’s New Data about Pokémon
#34It would be extremely cool if they'd expose information such as what moveset each Pokémon has available to them so I could make queries like 'what water type Pokémon that can learn Hydro Pump has the highest Special Attack stat'.
Maybe consider scraping bulbapedia into an SQL database? :)
-- i'm dreaming
SELECT pokemon.name
FROM
pokemon
JOIN pokemon_learn_moves ON pokemon.id = pokemon_learn_moves.pokemon_id
JOIN move ON pokemon_learn_moves.move_id = move.id
WHERE
move.name_en = "Hydro Pump"
ORDER BY pokemon.sp_atk DESC LIMIT 1;
Re: Wolfram Alpha’s New Data about Pokémon
#35If only "pikachu versus bulbasaur" suggested the best strategy for each. :-D
I'm going to say Bulbasaur has the edge here. Pikachu has a pretty decent speed stat, but it doesn't have access to many worthwhile moves. Let's talk about the build you'd use to pretty decisively beat a Pikachu. Pikachu's common passive ability 'Static' means that it can potentially inflict paralysis when hit with physical moves. On top of that, Bulbasaur has a fairly high Special Attack stat, so it'd be a good idea…
Bulbasaur may have an edge, type wise, but I'd put money on Pikachu actually winning. Pikachu with Light Screen, Thunder Wave/Knock Off, Protect/Wish, and Hidden Power (Ice) with Light Ball, would completely take on a Bulbasaur. http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pikachu_(Pok%C3%A9mon...
Bulbasaur would need Toxic/Sleep Powder, Growth, Energy Ball/Petal Dance/Giga Drain, and if you must, Hidden Power (Ground) with leftovers. Would NOT suggest using Leaf Storm unless you know you could knock out the opposing pokemon within two hits, even with the two stage lowering of the Special Attack. http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Bulbasaur_(Pok%C3%A9m...
The problem with your strategy is that it doesn't take into account crit attacks. Bulbasaur could get a critical hit on it and get all the way down to around 30% health left. The problem what that is that Bulbasaur is MUCH slower than Pikachu, so by the time that round is over, you don't have enough health to survive another neutral hit. The only way I could see Bulbasaur winning is with crit hits, or with just stalling out Pikachu (by changing growth to protect, hidden power ground to leech seed, and going with Giga Drain, you would have a really great chance to stall out Pikachu, if Pikachu doesn't 3HKO Bulbasaur), and hope he didn't have hidden power ice.
(If you're not using physical attacks, why waste a slot on Sword Dance, a move that increases the Physical attack stat??)
Re: Wolfram Alpha’s New Data about Pokémon
#36It would be extremely cool if they'd expose information such as what moveset each Pokémon has available to them so I could make queries like 'what water type Pokémon that can learn Hydro Pump has the highest Special Attack stat'.
Maybe consider scraping bulbapedia into an SQL database? :) -- i'm dreaming SELECT pokemon.name FROM pokemon JOIN pokemon_learn_moves ON pokemon.id = pokemon_learn_moves.pokemon_id JOIN move ON pokemon_learn_moves.move_id = move.id WHERE move.name_en = "Hydro Pump" ORDER BY pokemon.sp_atk DESC LIMIT 1; Actually, from this perspective there's a lot of boilerplate, no wonder people like key-value stores... Then use pyt…
I've thought about doing this before actually, don't know how they'd feel about someone scraping their content though.
Re: Wolfram Alpha’s New Data about Pokémon
#37The 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/questio…
Some of our stuff is simple database lookup (ala Google knowledge graph), other stuff is more algorithmic and computational in nature.
The problem we've had with SPARQL and co is that we feel it isn't optimized for computational queries. Ontologies don't matter as much in that case, and inference in tuple stores costs you significantly in performance, although the technology is improving.
As often as not, however, the computationally irreducible work lies in making a domain suitable for computational consumption, not in the technology used for representation.
To analogize, UTF-8 is great, but without the notion of Unicode code points it wouldn't exist.
Re: Wolfram Alpha’s New Data about Pokémon
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm going to say Bulbasaur has the edge here. Pikachu has a pretty decent speed stat, but it doesn't have access to many worthwhile moves. Let's talk about the build you'd use to pretty decisively beat a Pikachu. Pikachu's common passive ability 'Static' means that it can potentially inflict paralysis when hit with physical moves. On top of that, Bulbasaur has a fairly high Special Attack stat, so it'd be a good idea…
Bulbasaur may have an edge, type wise, but I'd put money on Pikachu actually winning. Pikachu with Light Screen, Thunder Wave/Knock Off, Protect/Wish, and Hidden Power (Ice) with Light Ball, would completely take on a Bulbasaur. http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pikachu_(Pok%C3%A9mon... Bulbasaur would need Toxic/Sleep Powder, Growth, Energy Ball/Petal Dance/Giga Drain, and if you must, Hidden Power (Ground) wit…
Yep I've been totally outclassed. I've only recently started getting into the online aspect of Pokémon so I still have a ton to learn with regards to strategy. Though does the speed stat really matter all that much outside of first mover advantage?
Re: Wolfram Alpha’s New Data about Pokémon
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe consider scraping bulbapedia into an SQL database? :) -- i'm dreaming SELECT pokemon.name FROM pokemon JOIN pokemon_learn_moves ON pokemon.id = pokemon_learn_moves.pokemon_id JOIN move ON pokemon_learn_moves.move_id = move.id WHERE move.name_en = "Hydro Pump" ORDER BY pokemon.sp_atk DESC LIMIT 1; Actually, from this perspective there's a lot of boilerplate, no wonder people like key-value stores... Then use pyt…
I've thought about doing this before actually, don't know how they'd feel about someone scraping their content though.
It's not like bulbapedia own the fundamental content - do they place a public license on the wiki pages?
Ideally bulbapedia would provide mediawiki dumps for this, but they don't, and they've gone on record saying they don't intend to. They did leave the mediawiki API open though if you want to crawl a clean rip of each page's wikitext - the default mediawiki API guidelines are also intact, which say that single-threaded crawls should be acceptable in almost all instances, but you should warn the site owner before initiating a multi-threaded scrape.
Re: Wolfram Alpha’s New Data about Pokémon
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe consider scraping bulbapedia into an SQL database? :) -- i'm dreaming SELECT pokemon.name FROM pokemon JOIN pokemon_learn_moves ON pokemon.id = pokemon_learn_moves.pokemon_id JOIN move ON pokemon_learn_moves.move_id = move.id WHERE move.name_en = "Hydro Pump" ORDER BY pokemon.sp_atk DESC LIMIT 1; Actually, from this perspective there's a lot of boilerplate, no wonder people like key-value stores... Then use pyt…
I've thought about doing this before actually, don't know how they'd feel about someone scraping their content though.
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