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by elblanco 16y ago
Outside of my own, or my colleagues experience with them, they literally wallpapered the metro station at the Pentagon with adverts. I've never seen that anywhere else in the system - ever. We're talking one of the most competitive advertis
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by elblanco 16y ago
Most of the people that will be using this tool are intel analysts. Most intel analysts used to be in the military at some point. To be an intel analyst in the military you have to score relatively high on a test called the ASVAB (basically
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by elblanco 16y ago
At the dozen or sites I'm aware of, only a couple are where I'd say are in "full operational mode" after 7-9 months. I've known a couple that have been in a protracted (even by that standard) deployment stage for >12 months. Every place
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by elblanco 16y ago
I don't know all the details, perhaps one of their employees on here can provide a better, non-marketing-spin (please no "we're building an intelligence operating system" nonsense again). My understanding is, that when they deploy they buil
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by elblanco 16y ago
Their initial installs are quite expensive. Small orgs <50 have been getting prices from $250k-$750k depending. I've seen larger organizations with $5-6million per install prices, but there are fewer of those. I've heard that their quot
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by elblanco 16y ago
I agree, it's actually where they were born -- financial fraud detection. Their finance product is really mature and quite powerful. Not sure how big the market for it is though. They'll probably do well in other types of research areas, th
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by elblanco 16y ago
They map data from different sources onto a common semantic ontology. From that, relationships can be derived. It works better with nicely structured data, but people can be leveraged to manually tag entities in documents and add those to t
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by elblanco 16y ago
A very large part of their strategy is crowdsourcing named entity extraction. Basically, as you read a report, you hilight and tag all the entities of interest. It provides incredibly high quality entities and relationships on an enterprise
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by elblanco 16y ago
It's more like an increase in efficiency. The turn all of the engineers into what are essentially BD and sales staff. It saves them from having to deal with high-commissioned sales people, while enjoying the benefits of low salaried, just o
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by elblanco 16y ago
What an amazing line of BS. Anyone who's ever dealt with them deals with sales people. Please don't buy into this, they are by far the most marketing and sales oriented companies I've ever seen in 15 years in the government/military intel s
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by elblanco 16y ago
Well, they actually sell two products simultaneously. They have a flashy, pretty good, front end tool. But what they really pitch is their very large and super scalable integrated ontologically driven back end.
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by elblanco 16y ago
I'm concerned, they've pretty much started to saturate their target vertical in the government (military/intel). I've also noticed that new installs are starting to go in at pretty large discounts over a year ago. The government, while larg
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by elblanco 16y ago
Their "forward deployed engineers" need clearances to work on site. Palantir installations are an extremely lengthy process required a couple full-time people on-site. The places I've seen it, it's typically taken 6-12 months to get it "tur
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by elblanco 16y ago
I've noticed some problems with the interfaces of some of the apps, like voice and gmail, not functioning properly unless I reload. It's particularly bad on voice, I can't get it to make a call about 30% of the time because the buttons are
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by elblanco 16y ago
holistic is generally used to mean "in its entirety" or "across the whole".
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by elblanco 16y ago
What is your time worth? I'd assume that each app took several hours to write?
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by elblanco 16y ago
I think in the private sector the you find the 80/20 rule (20% of the people do 80% of the work) while in my experience, in government it's more like 95/5 (5% of the people do 95% of the actual work). It can be excruciatingly frustrating, b
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by elblanco 16y ago
You might be surprised what a clearance is worth over private sector pay. That being said, private sector work is usually for more fulfilling and less frustrating. Working a private sector job, with a clearance (and the pay bump that brings
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by elblanco 16y ago
Usually if nobody understands it after the first two tries, I just say it louder, then slower, then louder and slower.
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by elblanco 16y ago
"Infatuation" has a slightly different meaning distinct from "love" while "limerence" is a distinct and precise form of "love". Just like love can be an umbrella term for a number of similar but different emotions (love like siblings, love
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by elblanco 16y ago
> That's why those products came from EZPass, not AT&T; Skype, not AT&T; Apple iPad, not AT&T. Fascinating explanation. I never understood the relationships between most of the ideas in those commercials and AT&T. It's a
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Apple secretly updates Mac malware protection(sophos.com)
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The strange and consequential case of Bradley Manning, Adrian Lamo and WikiLeaks(salon.com)
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Microsoft sues spammers for abusing Hotmail anti-spam filters(arstechnica.com)
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Verizon May Follow AT&T’s IPhone to Tiered Pricing (Update1)(businessweek.com)
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Sony Develops efficient laser light module for projectors(gizmag.com)
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New Samsung SSD uses toggle-mode DDR NAND(myce.com)
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Why People Are Afraid to Start a Business(grasshopper.com)
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by elblanco 16y ago
At the time there was lots of handwaving, but nobody was bringing forward the obvious, when somebody owes you north of six figures, you sue them. Not sure why that didn't contribute anything, but that's what most rational adults do in that
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by elblanco 16y ago
May want to look into these papers http://speechprosody2010.illinois.edu/papers/100096.pdf http://www.springerlink.com/index/P32774KN22650J42.pdf http://www.softsea.com/review/Pistonsoft-Text-to-Speech-Conv... I've heard that adding b

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