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by bazqux2 10y ago
Microsoft bailed out Apple and see how that turned out.
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by bazqux2 10y ago
Their competition isn't dashboards it's modelling. Customers want dashboards and Palantir provides excellent dashboard tooling. Dashboards make people feel smart and feel like they are learning something. But dashboards are not as
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by bazqux2 10y ago
It is an ontology company - see their website. This is how they derive their analytics and visualizations. So my points are relevant.
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by bazqux2 10y ago
You should check out Ab Inito, an even more secretive ETL company that predates Palantir and is also milking the DoD (it's an age old racket). They're $90K per seat per year and it's basically a crappy version of Jenkins. App
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by bazqux2 10y ago
You are being worse than Palantir.
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by bazqux2 10y ago
I meant generally they are generally not useful. Sometimes they are. It depends on the purpose and what you want to build and who it's for. Given that you're building a descriptive model it would depend if you're working with
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by bazqux2 10y ago
This matches my experiences with them and other Peter Thiel funded startups.
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by bazqux2 10y ago
There is usually something wrong with the ontologies approach as it rarely works. There is roughly two decades of evidence for this for anyone who cares to look. Five decades if you loosen the definition to include the family of logic and c
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by bazqux2 10y ago
Thanks. There is some interesting work being done with Deep Learning mixed with Bayesian Models and external databases of facts. The training apparently ungodly slow though. My work these days is visual so CNN works well enough. I'm no
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by bazqux2 10y ago
That matches my understanding of their tech stack as well. I also understand why people don't do an open sourced version - it doesn't pay nearly as well as having a job. What I find interesting about this is that in effect Palanti
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by bazqux2 10y ago
Huh, so they are open about it now. They definitely were not when I talked to them. I guess enough time has passed that people have forgotten the hard won lessons of the past. I worked on scaling and generalizing ontologies at university an
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by bazqux2 10y ago
After the BuzzFeed article and Unicorn Flyers they bumped pay and bonuses by ~20%. This was around 6-8 months ago. From what you're saying it sounds like it wasn't enough.
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by bazqux2 10y ago
Sure, I'll give a few examples. A guy from BP told me in 2013 that they forked iPython, replaced all iPython references with Palantir and tried to sell it to them for $500K p.a. For me; back in the day (2010) they were less secretive a
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by bazqux2 10y ago
I cannot say enough bad things about Palantir. Their technology is worse than the free alternatives and their consultants are not worth the money. They are losing their big commercial customers because of this and now need 'Hail Mary&#
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by bazqux2 10y ago
It's counter productive for big projects as well. The Too Big To Fail attitudes to process cover all manor of sins and corruptions to the point the projects is guaranteed to fail. See the Joint Strike Fighter for the worlds single most
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by bazqux2 10y ago
Samuel Brannon established his tool monopoly by diverting church money and using thugs to keep out the competition. Once he made his money he lost it all in real estate speculation and a divorce.
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by bazqux2 10y ago
I'm in the same boat. I switched to data science / ml.
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by bazqux2 10y ago
XMPP is a poor protocol. I can completely understand why they would want to break compatibility.
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by bazqux2 10y ago
Giving people a very small stake in their work adds much greater inventive than cost. That alone is a good idea (See Starbucks). Emotions trump math - even for programmers. I expect the confusing terms are intenional to make the math harder
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by bazqux2 10y ago
My first day in SF after coming from London for a tech job I accidentally walked into a protest. I asked one of the protestors who they were protesting and he told me it was foreign tech people. So for fun I pretended to be a banker. Appare
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by bazqux2 10y ago
It's so when they kill it there are fewer people to complain
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by bazqux2 10y ago
For big companies that benefit from being able to say they have lots of users there is a big incentive not to be good at finding fraudulent accounts. I worked in Big Data Analytics at one of these companies $10B+. We were separate from the
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by bazqux2 10y ago
I'm pretty sure it's by design.
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by bazqux2 10y ago
except that one
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by bazqux2 10y ago
You can be multicultural but not multiracial. I'm a white male but from a different culture. As an aside; is it racist to assume all white men have the same culture?
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by bazqux2 10y ago
A subcontractor can make way more money by internally making parts of substandard quality to ensure they get bought.
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by bazqux2 10y ago
I agree. Someone making free OS software for others to use shouldn't bundle. I made the assumption on the top post that they were in-house proprietary software given the reference to keeping everything in git.
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by bazqux2 10y ago
It worked for me. After countless injections of errors after updating a large list dependencies we made the decision to stop updating and freeze the versions, patch remaining errors ourselves and leave it alone. Worked so well we now have t
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by bazqux2 10y ago
How many more years of losing $2B a year until we find out the Uber model doesn't work for Uber either?
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by bazqux2 11y ago
I love ETL. I've worked with real Big Data (5PB+) and working on the data pipeline was my favorite part. The feeling you get when you rewrite a job to run 1000x faster so the company can make way more money.

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