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Re: Show HN: Map of YC Startups

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Post by yoouareperfect » Thu, Dec 26, 2024, 10:42 AM UTC

gniting wrote: post #19

Nice! What's the tech stack?

For scraping and all the processing, typescript. Embeddings: openai

For visualizing react (nextjs) + plotly (though the lack of mobile zoom makes me question if I should chsnge it)

Re: Show HN: Map of YC Startups

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Post by DrawTR » Thu, Dec 26, 2024, 10:49 AM UTC

kure256 wrote: post #18

Love that, what are Axes Y and C?

Apparently inspired by a comment on this very post! (Above yours, right now.)

> Cool project, but missed opportunity to name the arbitrary dimensions Y and C...

Re: Show HN: Map of YC Startups

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Post by yoouareperfect » Thu, Dec 26, 2024, 11:36 AM UTC

welder wrote: post #16

Company status isn't up to date... I know there's more than 1 public company that went through YC.

Check the filters, not all batches are selected as default. Only the latest ones. If you select all of them, then there are many public companies

Re: Show HN: Map of YC Startups

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Post by woodylondon » Thu, Dec 26, 2024, 1:49 PM UTC

Really nice to see - also, It would be great when filtering if there was a tabular view at the bottom as well.

Re: Show HN: Map of YC Startups

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Post by ksec » Thu, Dec 26, 2024, 2:04 PM UTC

I didn't know YC does Government, Healthcare, Industrials, Real Estate and Construction. All these are great sectors and never made the headline.

Re: Show HN: Map of YC Startups

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Post by skeeter2020 » Thu, Dec 26, 2024, 3:19 PM UTC

zild3d wrote: post #20

fun, though I also got stuck on what the Y and C axes represent initially. IMO just hide the axes altogether, since the goal is just some visual clustering/similarity

Maybe I'm slow, but clustering on what dimension? The lack of axes and labeling makes it pretty confusing to me, but I'm a dinosaur.

Visuals that are not self-explanatory make me feel dumb.

Re: Show HN: Map of YC Startups

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Post by paxys » Thu, Dec 26, 2024, 4:34 PM UTC

There's no need to include an X & Y axis, labels and gridlines if they all have no meaning. A simple cluster diagram is enough.

Re: Show HN: Map of YC Startups

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Post by k-i-r-t-h-i » Thu, Dec 26, 2024, 5:34 PM UTC

This is awesome! Are you able to also add F24?

Re: Show HN: Map of YC Startups

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Post by gavmor » Thu, Dec 26, 2024, 6:24 PM UTC

skeeter2020 wrote: post #26

zild3d wrote: post #20

fun, though I also got stuck on what the Y and C axes represent initially. IMO just hide the axes altogether, since the goal is just some visual clustering/similarity

Maybe I'm slow, but clustering on what dimension? The lack of axes and labeling makes it pretty confusing to me, but I'm a dinosaur. Visuals that are not self-explanatory make me feel dumb.

We don't know what to label those features/dimensions, because they're a reduction form higher dimensions that we also didn't bother to interrogate.

It's possible to figure them out. I wish OP would.

Re: Show HN: Map of YC Startups

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Post by gavmor » Thu, Dec 26, 2024, 6:27 PM UTC

jerrygenser wrote: post #4

uncomplexity_ wrote: post #3

hella nice mate very interesting what's the x and y axes?

they don't have meaning by themselves. they are two dimensions that umap projected the original embeddings down to in order to show a combination of local neighborhood similarity or closenes

Well, they do have meaning by themselves, but it's more work to figure that out. All regular, predictable relationships "have" meaning because all meaning is prescribed. And since we've captured many such prescriptions in LLMs, they can do a decent job approximating those.