Ranking YC Companies with a Neural Net | Eric Jang
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There are 397 companies in the recent YC 2022 Winter batch. Which ones should you invest in?
There are 397 companies in the recent YC 2022 Winter batch. Which ones should you invest in? Suppose a seed investor's entire worldview and investment framework can be distilled into how they uniquely sort this large collection of startups by target portfolio weights. To sort the list, the investor has to perform at least 396 comparisons (in the best possible case), but O(N log2 N) comparisons in the worst case, which sums up to about 3428 bits provided by human judgement. That's one expensive sort! Can we shrink our estimate of the upper bound of the Kolmogorov complexity of a seed…
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