abstractmath

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by abstractmath 1y ago
similar to how Anthropic released Claude 4 shortly after the Sam & Jony announcement. it's super competitive, which should be good for innovation, but there's also significant incentive to use PR tactics to sell that innovatio
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by abstractmath 4y ago
The interesting and important question is what are the priors. Since all of the priors here are speculative, there’s no use in pulling out Bayes. The outcome given Bayes is the same as the outcome without Bayes, just a bit noisier ;)
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by abstractmath 4y ago
I’m not arguing that laying people off is nearly as hard as getting laid off. I’m arguing against the idea that if you’re a manager or have money, that moments like this are easy or that there’s no empathy. i’m not saying that anyone should
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by abstractmath 4y ago
Look at the companies on http://layoffs.fyi Lots of small and medium sized companies, and I know for some that it was not their last move before going under. We had a hiring boom driven by cheap money, which is now ending. Now w
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by abstractmath 4y ago
> Large corporations are insane. Every small and medium company would wait to do layoffs until it threatened the business. Some even until after that point This is super idealized. How many layoffs have been going on in startup land rece
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by abstractmath 4y ago
But both of your assumptions imply the conclusion, so the math doesn’t actually seem helpful at all.
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by abstractmath 4y ago
Have you ever managed or led people? Did you find it easier or harder than when you didn’t manage people? Have you ever laid someone off or fired them? Was it so easy?
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Ask HN: Do you struggle with mental health?
10 points by abstractmath 5y ago|1 comments