Depends. Several central banks are working on exactly that, see for example the recent speech by the FED and the whole GENIUS act regulation framework.
But to be honest where I am (northwest Europe) we already have subsecond person-to-person transactions via the normal banking system, no matter which bank the sender and receiver use. So stablecoin-ifying the Euro wouldn't make a huge difference. There might be more to gain if the region doesn't have that kind of payment infrastructure yet.
warehouse: you connect your warehouse AND astrobee will store your semantic layer (ontology) in your warehouse. it will also use your warehouse to do computation
connect source: you'll use our warehouse under the hood, and when you connect your source systems, data will end up being stored in our warehouse. thats where computation and ontology storage will happen
that's a fair point. we use "ontology" throughout the product because of the influence from Palantir, and the fact that the structure we use in the product (from palantir) is in fact a bit different from what most people would create in semantic layers like dbt or cube
but i agree it's confusing. we are considering changing the naming around to account for this. i appreciate the feedback!
Calling it an ontology might be confusing indeed — nevertheless it’s definitely valuable to have an automatic way to generate and hydrate a semantic model from raw data
we're using OpenAI's API for business. they don't train on data sent to the business api, unlike the consumer tier
this is still an early beta, so at the moment everything is only available with OpenAI's API. however, for people who want to use it in a higher security environment, we'll support switching OpenAI with any hosted model API including on-premise or models held in private VPCs. that way people can manage their data with no exfiltration to a third party
it depends on whether you want to live life with work-as-someone-paying-for-your-time or whether you want to live life as work-as-perfecting-and-delivering-on-craft
you can have an attitude towards spending the short hours you have on this earth attempting to produce quality work that others appreciate and make their lives easier in some way, as opposed to writing those hours off as sold to someone else
And, indeed, perfection of the craft involves politics: it's not just understanding the technical space, it's about, eventually, understanding why other people see that space differently, what their goals are, how those goals overlap or don't, and how technical choices feed into that social layer.
Back in the day, Chrome was about a sandboxed subprocess architecture that made for a more stable browser. It was also about breaking the back of the Microsoft monopoly and advocating for why people should bother to care (remember the comic strip Google commissioned?). Nowadays, if it weren't about politics at all, Chrome would still be the best choice because it's still technically very good.
But there's more to the problem than simple technical competenece.
You can hone your skills while still maintaining a healthy detachment. You make your case at a thing, business decides to do something else that you think is dumb. You only "lose" if you were overly attached to the decision in the first place. Otherwise you simply get a chance to observe the outcome, see what went well/poorly, and reflect on whether/how you were totally right all along. Next time you have a clearer understanding and perhaps will be able to better articulate your position. You didn't lose. You gained experience and wisdom. You always win as long as you're open to do so. The business lost by listening to the wrong person.
If I need to dig into social engineering and extrovert masking to be an effective engineer I probably should also look for another job. I hate places where this borderline nepotism is the only way to get anything done.
Oh well, I'll just endure it until the job market relaxes a little.
