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Pokemon bots are all anyone is talking about in the last week. Fun fact: I studied chess bots as part of my CS PhD program. So in today's video, I explain the details of these bots work and how I expect them to change VGC moving forward. The link is below! Check it out 👇👇
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AI in VGC, from my POV 🧵 :
Well, I always believed it would take longer to get here. "Doubles is way more complex than singles" kept me feeling comfortable. But it's here and I don't think we can do much to stop it. Ban it from the ladders for sure, but here on out the (1/X)
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21° em Recife com Klefki! Talvez o campeonato que mais me diverti, me sinto uma pessoa diferente da temporada passada.
Agradeço a meus amigos da KSV, aos que pude conversar durante a prep @xoakin @NailsOU @PHSFeitosa e ao amigo @sebastiannesc
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Opening coaching slots! Have gotten a number of coaching requests over the years, so I thought I'd officially offer it! Sign up at bit.ly/EternalSnowmanCoachin…!
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Baltimore finished at 7-6. Feels I am quite rusty without enough time for practicing, but happy to meet all the friends.
My team featured Klefki. Thanks @SuperPawmi @Paul_Chua_ @WilliamTheShuai @zgrzgrzgr46 @NailsOU for working together. Congrats to @NailsOU for the t16 finish!
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In a Tub Takes Takedown, Adi Subramanian claims victory in Round 9 of Swiss 🫡
Fun Fact: These two clicked Trick Room TWELVE times across this set.
#PokemonVGC
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Inspired by last night's Tub Takes, I just pushed a Reportworm update that shows opponent teams inline when you click 'em. I removed the opponent team filtering for now (I wasn't super happy about it) but it could come back. Let me know what you think! standings.reportworm.com/202…
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I saw this while I was editing the shorts I recorded at worlds! Here's a little sneak preview.
Got ten of these I'll be uploading to Youtube over the next few weeks.
Next time you're at a regional we'll have to get you on one.
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This took me WAY too long, because of my FIERY PASSION, POKEMON WORLDS PEEPS..
THE ULTIMATE SAN FRANCISCO FOOD GUIDE/TOUR.
From a food obsessed SF local, 40+ spots sorted by nationality, price, wait and more. Happy eating here in SF❤️
🔽google doc in comments!(ctrl f stuff)🔽
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I tried to make a comprehensive English summary of the contents of the new Famitsu interview with Champions producer Masaaki Hoshino.
If you have any questions about details, feel free to ask!
『ポケモンチャンピオンズ』星野正昭プロデューサーインタビュー第2弾。スマホ版へのこだわり＆大盛り上がりの“PJCS”振り返り。
famitsu.com/article/202608/8…
・スマホ版リリース後のオンライン大会に131万人が参加！
・シーズンM-3が20日間しかなかった理由
・伝説のポケモンの扱いはどうなる？
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I have no idea what the actual VGC AI discourse is today -- someone promoting some tool or other, it seems. But I think there's a useful framing here that will help you determine if AI should be trusted for a task.
"AI" = large language models = text predictors. The models...
