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Re:Palantir raises $680M by argonaut on Friday December 11, 2015 @01:46AM (#10715760)
Everyone in tech knows about Palantir.
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Re:Palantir raises $680M by personjerry on Friday December 11, 2015 @02:03AM (#10715806)
Soon Palantir will also know about everyone in tech.
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Re:Palantir raises $680M by BinaryIdiot on Friday December 11, 2015 @02:24AM (#10715862)
Well considering what their software actually does...yeah they most likely do in a data set somewhere.
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Re:Palantir raises $680M by argonaut on Friday December 11, 2015 @09:12AM (#10717170)
Considering what their software actually does, which is basically displaying a dashboard of nice tables / visualizations / graphs, and knobs to turn those visualizations/graphs, no. Palantir barely does any machine learning.
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Re:Palantir raises $680M by BinaryIdiot on Friday December 11, 2015 @10:04AM (#10717440)
Seems like you'd NOT want to do machine learning if you simply want to hold all of the data parent mentioned...
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