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This reminded me of a talk [1] at pyData Berlin some years ago.

Vincent demonstrated how he used some ML techniques to create fake pokemon sounding names to put into his LinkedIn resume. So that he could filter out headhunters without any real knowledge.

To quote from my notes [2] of the conference:

> There is a striking phonetic similarity between big data technology and pokemon names. Can you create a service that generates strings that sound like potential pokemon names? And what might be the simplest possible way to make that into a service? Also, would it be possible to generate pokemon names that start with three random characters and end with 'base' (KREBASE, MONBASE would be appropriate but IEYBASE would not be).

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hR4peP9V4A

[2]: https://gist.github.com/sdoering/37203f3301c6f0b9f48f76a976a...



There's also a Pokemon or Big Data quiz [0].

[0] http://pixelastic.github.io/pokemonorbigdata/


I got 100%! Mostly because my 8 year old happened to ask what I was doing and identified all the pokemon for me.


this was hilarious! if you're like me and don't know pokemon that well (only the most famous ones), this is pretty tough.


That's excellent. I'm usually pretty good at these either-or things, but I was 2/10 on that.


For naming new projects, I like to use the random page function in Shin Megami Tensei wiki.


I have a unicode character in my Linkedin name to detect automated messages. It's a strong signal of whether it's worth continuing the conversation.




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