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The Ontology: Operating at optimum complexity — as simply as possible

The Ontology: Operating at optimum complexity — as simply as possible Editor’s Note: In this blog post, Senior Director of Enterprise Technology Markus Löffler discusses the principles underlying his belief that the Palantir Foundry Ontology can transform any enterprise. I believe the Ontology is the foundational element for the modern software stack. In this post, I will tell you why. …

DeepMind’s AlphaCode attains ‘average’ rating in programming competition

A team of researchers at DeepMind has tackled another difficult task—generating computer code to satisfy a natural language request. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes the approach they used in creating their AI app and outline how well it did when pitted against human programmers. J. Zico Kolter with Carnegie …

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Production Infrastructure at Palantir: User-minded API design

Intro It’s trendy right now for organizations to describe themselves as “outcome-oriented,” where members of the organization are accountable for the results of their work. The Production Infrastructure group at Palantir commits itself to being oriented around our users’ outcomes — but how does this translate into building good software? Our users’ outcomes are often dictated by …

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Formation of Robust Bound States of Interacting Photons

Posted by Alexis Morvan and Trond Andersen, Research Scientists, Google Quantum AI When quantum computers were first proposed, they were hoped to be a way to better understand the quantum world. With a so-called “quantum simulator,” one could engineer a quantum computer to investigate how various quantum phenomena arise, including those that are intractable to …