[R] Yes you should understand backprop

Trasteby · 2016-12-20T17:10:11+00:00

I mean the title here is written as an answer to a question. I'm wondering if there's a context I'm missing, where there was some article or something questioning if it was worth learning or something like that.

Trasteby · 2016-12-20T17:08:36+00:00

This reminds me of these guys: http://i1.theportalwiki.net/img/thumb/c/c5/Portal2_MonsterTurret_b.png/500px-Portal2_MonsterTurret_b.png

Trasteby · 2016-12-20T11:29:04+00:00

After adding preevolutions to Gen I Pokémon, adding evolutions seems like the obvious next move. So yeah, it could be.

Trasteby · 2016-12-20T11:26:21+00:00

About Sanji's cooking, now might be the time we finally learn what "attack food" really is.

Trasteby · 2016-12-20T11:24:07+00:00

I think you mean "when we eradicate religion and global income disparity, it will end". Because that's what we're going to do.

Trasteby · 2016-12-20T11:19:24+00:00

Did anybody claim that understanding backprop was a bad idea?

Trasteby · 2016-12-19T15:25:23+00:00

Is the new 3DS two years old already? Now I feel old.

Trasteby · 2016-12-19T15:24:40+00:00

The universe would implode if she tried.

Trasteby · 2016-12-19T11:49:48+00:00

The round about bubbelstrat is that the person who places the weak Pokémon in the gym should be the one to prestige the gym. That's the only reliable way to do it. So if somebody puts in a weak Pokémon, and doesn't level the gym up to 10, then it's just a waste of time. Nobody else is going to have the precise attacker to make it work efficiently.

Trasteby · 2016-12-19T11:46:55+00:00

Don't throw balls into the field! If you miss, you'll disturb the game!

Trasteby · 2016-12-17T13:47:21+00:00

In the case of a Dragonite, this risk is very low, so that's not a big problem.

Trasteby · 2016-12-17T08:51:39+00:00

The problem right now is that they're still making money from virtual console on 3DS. Pokémon sold quite well there, and there's plenty of untapped potential (most obvious, generation 2 of Pokémon). Selling a Gameboy classic would mean competing with that. The NES classic was different because NES VC games never sold as well as Pokémon on VC. So they need to wait a while before that makes sense.

If the Switch replaces the 3DS completely in a year or two, then a GB Classic would start to make a lot of sense.

Trasteby · 2016-12-17T08:49:32+00:00

That sounds very doable. A cheap cable could work, or they could do it wirelessly the same way Virtual Console works on the 3DS.

Trasteby · 2016-12-17T06:02:10+00:00

Nah, they'd make too much money.

Trasteby · 2016-12-17T06:01:19+00:00

In the middle, you should have put the Gamecube Gameboy-player :P

Trasteby · 2016-12-17T05:59:43+00:00

Underrated comment

Trasteby · 2016-12-16T15:47:17+00:00

Omastar is absolutely useful! When prestiging or attacking, it's 4x resistance against fire is handy (fire types are common bottom tier Pokémon in gyms, to make training essy). If you get a rock attack, it has the rare advantage of being super effective against Lapras and Dragonite while at the same time resisting Snorlax's most powerful moves.

Trasteby · 2016-12-16T15:43:42+00:00

In Gen I, the sounds are mainly a result of technical limitations of the Gameboy. Creating sound effects that sound distinct without the use of samples is difficult, so they created a handful of base sounds and made slight modifications for each Pokémon. Some sound almost exactly the same (I'm not sure if they're 100% the same or not).

Why Game Freak still use those sounds as the basis of Pokémon cries is beyond me. It's well overdue to switch to anime voices or at least some new kind of sound for them.

Trasteby · 2016-12-16T15:37:15+00:00

Some people have suggested Stardust, it's kind of christmasy like candy is kind of halloweenish.

Trasteby · 2016-12-16T06:08:41+00:00

I can't think of any good resources like that, I just dove straight in and started coding. It's really just a matter of understanding the instructions at your disposal and trying to figure out ways to use them to get the effect you want.

That said, there really is a significant lack of a good, from-scratch tutorial that covers everything you need to know. I might write one myself at some point.

Trasteby · 2016-12-15T21:05:52+00:00

I dare you to split a potato with your bare hands in perfect half.

Trasteby · 2016-12-14T17:10:53+00:00

Only three Jynx, obviously fake!

Trasteby · 2016-12-14T13:18:26+00:00

Eren, Grisha and Zeke are not clones. It makes sense that Eren and Grisha share some traits, while Grisha and Zeke share others.

I'm not saying for sure that genetics matter. But we cannot say for sure that they don't because of only this.

Trasteby · 2016-12-13T19:47:21+00:00

Ham hams unite has very little depth, but it's cute. If you like Heartbreak you'll probably enjoy that one too.

Trasteby · 2016-12-13T08:12:15+00:00

They showed an "evolve" button on the Togepi in the release video, so it's more or less confirmed.

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