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Is it Pokemon or Big Data? (2016)

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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

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

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

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

Yes there is!

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

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

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

10/10 so far. Love the animations though!

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

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)

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.

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

Finally I get to put my Pokemon knowledge to use.

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)

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)

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

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

A trademark lawsuit?

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)

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.

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

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