Takeaways from an 🏈 NFL Data Scientist | Avoiding Tech Stock Crash Career Impacts
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Curated media from the past few weeks:
How worried should we be about that tech stock crash
The tech market has been a legit roller coaster for years now. Our COO, Rachel Fuld Cohen, shares strategies for riding the wave in this practical and timely article on LeadDev.
🗯️Quotable Bit: “Days like today in the stock market are a reminder that even in very marketable professions, such as engineering, professionals must take the time to invest in their skills and networks so they can bounce back quickly and often.”
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How to think about Open vs. Closed AI Systems
Mark Zuckerberg's LLaMA 3.1 takes center stage in this video, exploring the game-changing potential of open AI systems, weighing the pros and cons of open versus closed approaches, and offering a beginner-friendly look at how this technology could reshape our digital future.
🗯️Quotable Bit: “Zuckerberg isn’t just keeping up. He’s pushing back against the idea that AI should be locked away—instead opting to create a shared resource that everyone can improve together.”
AI summarization is… well… making things shorter. But that’s not always better. In this hilarious and insightful piece, you’ll learn why AI summaries are everywhere and how they differ from human-created summaries. In the age of text message communication, we don’t need summaries in the same way that we used to…
🗯️Quotable Bit: "In contexts where people are communicating more deliberately, though—where they’re actually trying to talk to one another and put care into what they’re saying and how they’re saying it—summarization, in its current state at least, feels inadequate, out of place, and counterproductive, and that’s when it doesn’t mess up."
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➡️ Last week’s fireside chat with NFL Data Scientist Tom Bliss was as 🤯 as expected. As promised, we’re sharing the recording (PW: 3D!kK*vM) to our broader community (that’s you—our newsletter crew!). 📼 Watch to learn more about:
How to grow as a data scientist by following your interests
NFL rule changes & how they are data-informed
The future of data and coaching in the NFL
What data is or is not shared with media partners
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