Alumni @riceuniversity, Co-Founder @twinleafgg, and Pokémon TCG Player. I talk about tech and AI @charlie_lockyer!
San Francisco, CA
Joined December 2018
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Here's my Supreme Court list that got me 18th place at this year's World Championships. Best deck in the format.
Happy to share my work on the AI Battle Challenge!
@xxmichaellong and I built a general model to play the Pokemon TCG. It uses deep learning and search to look ahead and explore different options.
Very proud of this. Model will be open-source soon!
kaggle.com/competitions/poke…
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This competition was some of the most fun I’ve had! I’m extremely proud of our solution and write up, I recommend checking it out. Thanks so much to the organisers for putting on such a cool event.
Praying we get picked for the top 8 🤞(+ my favourite graphic from this project)
Myself and @ptcgjamesc got 16th in Pokemon’s AI Bot Competition out of 6807 teams!
We built a bot that calculates the possible attacks in a position with Raging Bolt then was trained to find the best attack.
If you’re interested, our write up which explains everything is below!
How long will it take before @playpokemon finally fires WaitWhile? It’s the same every year.
Good software is a necessity! @rk9labs is right there guys. Everyone knows they’d build you a much better Pokemon Center queue.
Thanks to everyone who already reached out to me about this! I’m SO happy this exists.
As some of you know, 7 years ago I did some research on this problem, which I published at cyrus.ai. It was all exploratory because I didn’t have access to significant data or compute, but the landscape has changed now!
Looks like it’s time to bring the project back. If you have significant experience with RL and want to do this, please reach out!
本日6月16日（火）より、「ポケモンカードゲーム AI Battle Challenge」を開始！
ポケモンカードゲームのプレイを競う、AIエージェントの開発コンテストだよ。
くわしくはこちら！
ptcg-abc.pokemon.co.jp/ #ポケカ #ポケカABC #PTCGABC
We finally got the endgame NAIC location!
- Biggest convention center in America
- Centrally located for driving Americans
- Huge international airport
- Beautiful in the summer
Gonna be so cool seeing McCormick Place packed out for Pokémon.
Next year, #PokemonNAIC is getting a new home! Check out where we'll see you in 2027… 👀
9-3-2 for top 128 at NAIC with Slowking! @Ian__Robb built this crazy list.
That concludes my season at 969 CP (820 from majors; no challenge or cup wins all year lol)! Sad I missed my goal of 1000, but this has been my best career season so far!
Can’t wait to cap it off in SF.
Made a new account to talk about AI, startups, and my personal projects. Will post much more over there and keep this account Pokemon-only.
If you're interested in tech, AI, and argumentative writing, a follow would be greatly appreciated!
@charlie_lockyer
67th in LA with Kazam! For no prep, I’m very happy with my result. Kazam is broken; it 50-50s pult and cleans up the rest of the room outside of Rocket.
Bought @Kelthrag ‘s guide and just played his list. Would love space for 4th battle cage. Highly recommend!
904/1000 CP goal!
Posted a short update to my Crustle guide for post-rotation. If you're planning on playing Crustle in LA, this includes my latest list!
metafy.gg/guides/view/ultima…
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Since the release of Perfect Order, I have been OBSESSED with Kangaskhan / Teal Mask decks! After weeks of refining my deck list, I finally feel it is time to release a guide on @TryMetafy!
Below, you will find more than 9000 words detailing my deck list, matchups and more!
ALT https://mfy.gg/guides/view/mega-kangaskhan-slash-teal-mask-box-32ZgRQDpXRW
Can AI graduate with a degree in computer science?
Introducing BSCS-bench: every assignment from every core class in my Rice University CS degree, compiled into an AI model benchmark.
Most ambitious project I've ever built. Full results here:
bscsbench.com/
I also wrote a companion essay exploring the potential impacts of these results on higher education. In short: there are many, and universities must act now before it’s too late.
bscsbench.com/blog/no-calcul…
Top 16 in Orlando with Crustle!
Same 60 as Houston and my Metafy guide. Really proud of this list.
Shoutout @SVCardArt for support and my friends for suffering through testing against Crustle. Finally repeated a deck on my Limitless page. Hard work pays off!
+$2000, 842 CP
Orlando Update for my Crustle guide is now live!
Put a lot of work into improving the Budew/Froslass matchup, and I think I've got an answer 🙂 check out the guide to see my latest list!
mfy.gg/guides/view/ultimate-…
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TOP 4 Cape Town SPE 😭with Dwebbie
SO
@postsimone for winning the whole event
Kichi for sponsoring me sleeves ^^
@ZachLesagePTCG for coming in 2nd and locking his invite!
@C4_TCG for helping me out with the deck, figuring out some matchups and for the insane Metafy guide
@Wet_Goose for helping out in general as usual
@SheldonWasThere and @ProjectArceus for hanging out
I swear I'm never going to win an SPE 😭
Honestly I picked up the deck with no practice besides getting farmed abit, but the deck feels really solid and broken into the current metagame besides the 2 for the 2 bad MUs (Gardy, LassDori) it was a solid pick for this event in my opinion but man is the LassDori MU just HORID to play, if they ever just bump your PLHQ out early the game is legit over, double spiky doesnt even save you because charm and you're giving them damage to move on monkey.
Surprisingly, I used Lisia's Appeal a fair bit and actually won me a few rounds/games I'm quite surprised since I was going to cut it for Scrapper but decided not to along with Morty's Conviction. Besides that, I'm just surprised I didn't used as much healing as I expected, didn't use PokeVital that much.
Again Charlie's 60 is lit and feels super smooth and broken once you play more than 40 games on it (timing of everything is too important), check out his Metafy guide for more and indepth breakdown, deck is tuff.
Besides that had a fun event and was nice catching up with everyone again after a year! @SirAfroPanda @plessis_rudolph @HarprTCG and the rest I don't have on Twitter!
See you next SPE!
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I had actually arrived at about 56/60 your list on my own leading up to Houston! Thanks for your six prizes article and metafy class, very concise and informative, you’re a great writer 👍 League HQ is a great inclusion I wouldn’t have thought of! (Went 4-0 in Pult games btw 💪)
Excited to release my first Metafy Guide!
This is a complete guide to playing Crustle, including all matchup strategies from my 100+ games of practice.
Will update before Orlando with a new list, and also once for post-rotation Crustle! Only $15 too 🙂
mfy.gg/guides/view/ultimate-…