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Re:Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further into Government by surebut on Monday August 04, 2025 @04:35PM (#44791045)
You are aware the product names are cognitive obfuscation that the underlying implementation is just vanilla open source data modeling services right?

Linux. Windows. Both are "operating systems"?

What actual novel data collating and anomaly detection algorithms does Palantir implement that no one else does? Oh that's right these services are all just different corporate branding atop the same old open source stacks and libraries everyone uses.

Re:Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further into Government by lolive on Monday August 04, 2025 @06:50PM (#44792219)
Show me a fully graphical version controlled UI that hides PySpark behind visual widgets.

Show me a entity-relationship model management [with version control] that wraps Spark data frames into a fully ontology-based graph database.

Show me a low code/no code UI designer that is fully consuming the ontology layer abstracting your Spark dataFrames.

#meWaiting

Re:Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further into Government by surebut on Monday August 04, 2025 @06:55PM (#44792264)
Yeah ok let me go expropriate other peoples systems.

They exist but are used in house not sold as products.

There are information theory texts with all these ideas written in them published back in the 1950s we just didn't have powerful enough computers

Thiel and Musk's only advantage is age. They were able to implement first due to a single property of physics.

Most "geniuses" today, like Tao, just like reading math. None of them have any truly novel net new ideas. They're parrots whose cages were in the nerdy section of a book store.

Re:Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further into Government by kevinventullo on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @03:17AM (#44795178)
Pretty sure Tao’s had one or two new ideas.
Re:Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further into Government by lolive on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @05:44AM (#44796075)
I still wait for my list of immediately available products, so my company can escape the evilness [and overefficiency] of the PalantirFoundry stack.
Re:Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further into Government by gremlinunderway on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @10:59AM (#44798859)
This is like the equivalent of "my girlfriend goes to another school, you wouldn't know her". Okay, so there's in-house systems as good as this. Big whoop if no one can actually see or use them.
Re:Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further into Government by caycep on Monday August 04, 2025 @04:54PM (#44791228)
At least Astronomer has Gwyneth Paltrow
Re:Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further into Government by lolive on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @05:38AM (#44796032)
I doubt anyone has the $$$ horsepower to maintain a coherent stack as big as Foundry. So in the makeOrBuy, you probably will go for a buy. And in that field, I still think SAP is way behind Palantir. Someone in the discussion mentionned IBM’s InformationServer, and I will spend some time to investigate its storage scalability strategy and the data model governance.