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LLM Agents Play Pokemon Showdown

https://olivergrabner.com/research/pokemon/
13•grabnero•1h ago

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deadbabe•49m ago
Jev will give better results on this kind of thing.
nico•27m ago
For sure are many better models for this use case[0]

At the same time, it’s interesting seeing how generally capable language models/LLMs/agents/harnesses are getting

We’ll probably see a lot more experiments and benchmarks like these in the near future

0: simple classifiers can play quite a few game, including Doom https://playground.jeffyclassify.com/#doom

pgn•30m ago
what was the selection for the teams? random per round? how does it play against people in ladder?
doctorpangloss•20m ago
Pokémon Showdown isn't a game so much as it is competitive Wiki reading.

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276•ahlCVA•3h ago•71 comments

There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability

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233•zkldi•4h ago•105 comments

The recently proposed o(n log n) integer multiplication algorithm [pdf]

https://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~davidharvey/research/subnlogn.pdf
22•craigcitro•44m ago•11 comments

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42•Mayzie•1h ago•6 comments

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347•passenger•5h ago•189 comments

Rust Style Guide

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233•kaycebasques•8h ago•125 comments

GitLab Critical Patch Release

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263•artooro•8h ago•65 comments

Compromised LiteLLM 1.107.0 on PyPI Installs a Credential Stealer and Backdoor

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452•abhisek•13h ago•153 comments

LLM Agents Play Pokemon Showdown

https://olivergrabner.com/research/pokemon/
13•grabnero•1h ago•6 comments

Using LLM for confidence scoring is a bad idea

https://rumple.github.io/blog/2026/10/20/asking-llm-for-confidence.html
12•jimauthors•22h ago•2 comments

Chain of Thought for Humans

https://www.boristhebrave.com/2026/10/18/chain-of-thought-for-humans/
41•ibobev•2d ago•20 comments

Beyond the &

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21•PaulHoule•1d ago•0 comments

Meta ordered to pay $25B penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case

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414•cbg0•9h ago•266 comments

No more icons in every menu by default

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206•riffraff•1d ago•145 comments

Today's PHP security release, and how we're strengthening security

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693•ejohnso49•11h ago•342 comments

PingCap TiDB Leaks

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238•swyx•1d ago•33 comments

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27•kmansm27•10h ago•10 comments

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162•bryanrasmussen•1d ago•26 comments

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107•albertodenia•2d ago•57 comments

OpenAI models are coming to Google Cloud

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249•armcat•14h ago•107 comments

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146•khalidkhair•2d ago•101 comments

DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS “Cinnamon Teal”

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378•nnx•13h ago•49 comments

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238•nr378•13h ago•162 comments

EA is shutting down BioWare

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561•aaronbrethorst•9h ago•333 comments

Oregon lawmakers approve money to buy an iconic waterfall listed on Redfin

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175•surprisetalk•11h ago•85 comments

Postgres recovery_prefetch can cause outages

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4•plaur782•4h ago•0 comments

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54•simfinii•20h ago•23 comments

PHP 8.2.35

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