Re:NYPD is canceling its Palantir contract
by throwaway825 on Saturday July 01, 2017 @10:22AM
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> Palantir has an outdated software stack (Java/Swing)
What? How is this even correlated to the value provided by the software they sell? So they're SOL because they didn't do a rewrite?
> they have no meaningful ML/AI strategy
They mostly sell software and services around data integration of disparate data sources and the ability to query that information and make connections easily. Their flagship product is a graph database with access controls built in. ML/AI is so dependent on the particulars of a given data, so I don't know how valid this criticism is. If they're able to provide value without productizing machine learning, sounds good to me.
> Finally the political environment along association with Thiel isn't helping them make any new friends.
What? How is this even correlated to the value provided by the software they sell? So they're SOL because they didn't do a rewrite?
> they have no meaningful ML/AI strategy
They mostly sell software and services around data integration of disparate data sources and the ability to query that information and make connections easily. Their flagship product is a graph database with access controls built in. ML/AI is so dependent on the particulars of a given data, so I don't know how valid this criticism is. If they're able to provide value without productizing machine learning, sounds good to me.
> Finally the political environment along association with Thiel isn't helping them make any new friends.
Agreed