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xinpw8 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:54:23 +0000

hi, pokemon red expert here: that video has since been taken private. there is a new what i would assume to be version of that video posted here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty_50J84fMY and heavily redacted with most of the game actually omitted. very possibly this is just another case of anthropic protecting us from their models' immense power

New comment by xinpw8 in "Show HN: Beating Pokemon Red with RL and <10M Parameters"

xinpw8 — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 19:20:47 +0000

Thank you. Because I was just shaking my head "kids these days"

New comment by xinpw8 in "Show HN: Beating Pokemon Red with RL and <10M Parameters"

xinpw8 — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 19:19:39 +0000

not sure what you mean..details?

New comment by xinpw8 in "Show HN: Beating Pokemon Red with RL and <10M Parameters"

xinpw8 — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 05:06:17 +0000

as it stands, battling is wholly unimportant to completing the game, as long as the agents can eventually complete the trainer battles mandatory for plot advancement. it's funny because everyone thinks about battling when they think about pokemon. my first fn i wrote, back when we were still bumping around pallet town, was a battle reward function. it was trash and didn't work and was over-complicated. the crux of the problem is exploration over a vast, open-world map, and completion of the sundry storyline tasks at distal parts of said map in the correct sequence without the policy collapsing and without agents overfitting to, say, overworld loops.

New comment by xinpw8 in "Show HN: Beating Pokemon Red with RL and <10M Parameters"

xinpw8 — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 05:01:58 +0000

i had to look up how to do cut. like, i was hard-stuck.

New comment by xinpw8 in "Show HN: Beating Pokemon Red with RL and <10M Parameters"

xinpw8 — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 05:00:00 +0000

the only chatbot for me is smarterchild

New comment by xinpw8 in "Show HN: Beating Pokemon Red with RL and <10M Parameters"

xinpw8 — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 04:58:27 +0000

dyor we only tested it with a pufferfish, courtesy of puffer.ai / pufferlib RL library. i promise it doesn't work with random inputs.

New comment by xinpw8 in "Show HN: Beating Pokemon Red with RL and <10M Parameters"

xinpw8 — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 04:56:33 +0000

Very good to hear. Join the pyboy/pokemon discords! https://discord.gg/UXpjQTgs https://discord.gg/EVS3tAGm

New comment by xinpw8 in "Show HN: Beating Pokemon Red with RL and <10M Parameters"

xinpw8 — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 19:38:53 +0000

not our agents a hierarchical approach would be superior. add rl to claude and it's gg

New comment by xinpw8 in "Show HN: Beating Pokemon Red with RL and <10M Parameters"

xinpw8 — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 19:36:53 +0000

if you helped with pret then god bless you

New comment by xinpw8 in "Show HN: Beating Pokemon Red with RL and <10M Parameters"

xinpw8 — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 19:17:54 +0000

a cool idea, except that battling actually doesn't even matter to the ai. if you look at what the agent is doing during a battle, it is sort of spamming options + picking damaging attacks. it would be a stretch to say that agents were 'good' at battling...

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xinpw8 — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 19:15:57 +0000

i am sorry for my awful qa on the site :((((((((((((

New comment by xinpw8 in "Show HN: Beating Pokemon Red with RL and <10M Parameters"

xinpw8 — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 19:14:48 +0000

It definitely cannot be beaten using random inputs. It doesn't even get out of Pallet Town after billions of steps. We tested...

New comment by xinpw8 in "Show HN: Beating Pokemon Red with RL and <10M Parameters"

xinpw8 — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 18:28:06 +0000

This is a first-in-world, isn't it?