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- 1Palantir Co-Founder Urges Less Judgment Over Deadly Iran School Strike●Palantir's Co-Founder Wants Us Less Judgmental About Deadly Iran School Strike
Peter Thiel, co-founder of data-analytics firm Palantir, has drawn criticism for saying people should be less judgmental about a deadly strike that hit a school in Iran. His comments, reported by Mother Jones, sparked backlash over the civilian toll of the strike and the ethics of Silicon Valley leaders weighing in on Middle East military actions.
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Columnar.tech has published a piece asking what would happen if Jev — a reference to William Stanley Jevons, the economist behind Jevons paradox — had access to Apache Arrow, the open columnar in-memory data format. The post explores how Arrow's efficient data processing changes assumptions about data consumption, drawing engagement from the analytics engineering community.