robertkoss

Thank you very much for your feedback :)

Palantir themselves call it the Data Operating System, that's why I used this phrase as well, although it is of course not a real OS.

An Ontology is not a groundbreaking concept, you are totally right. "Ontologie" has been a philosophical discipline for hundreds of years already. It is also a big part of systems theory, which is party of most CS majors. The special thing is that Foundry got build with the Ontology as a core concept 10 years ago, when the whole industry was still using MapReduce. This gave them a huge headstart, which now allows users to build complex application on top of their platform.

Versioning data is not completely new, but the way it is integrated in the software is very impressing. If you look to the direct competition (Databricks, Snowflake, etc.) you're searching in vain for comparable features.

I am in fact evangelizing, because I think the data community can learn a lot from looking at this product. I myself use Databricks for the most part, and I love it. But I think the Foundry features I've listed are great as well and deserve some attention.

TL;DR: thank you for taking the time and reading the article! :)

haha flattering :) ! it is not an ad, I am just think that this is a great underrated product.

This is one of the reasons we moved away from Glue..

https://medium.com/claimsforce/lakehouse-running-delta-lake-...

It seems like you know nothing about the product at all.

The documentation is public. I think that Foundry is waaay more than a "shiny dashboard". Especially the concept of the ontology is ingenious in my opinion. Also the closing the loop concept is one of its kind.

Great Barrington -> 4th of October. Are you even reading my comments? I am referring to the first lockdowns which took place in April 2020.

"So we decided to go for the known devastating effects in case the disease was also devastating?" Of course we do in case of a pandemic, since we are dealing with a completely different underlying distribution of effects.

You don't want to generalise (COVID similar to influenza huh?) if you don't know anything about the virus.

I repeat myself, at that point We didn't know much about SARS2.

What a nice strawman you constructed there.

You said it yourself, we were lacking the data which in a fat tailed event like a pandemic means that you should be as careful as possible.

It boggles my mind that people don't understand how to act under uncertainty.

Typical hindsight bias. At the time of the debate (April 2020) we DID NOT have the data to say that a lockdown was unnecessary.

Same, I'd love to see more support on Cloudformation and projects like SAM

Hindsight bias. If Superman Comic #1 would come out today, it would not be worth that much. So the reason that the second is less valuable is not because of "the nature of #2" but because NFT was a bubble and overhyped.

Incorporates many of Nassim Talebs ideas! Great article! :)

I recommend reading the passage on Spengler in Poppers 'The open society'.