NYC Data #349: Airflow Monitoring, BirdNET, J. Crew, Trade Coffee, Hearst, Warner Music, Tunisia, Voice Recognition and Response
Plus, 21 different definitions of AGI
Hi friends - lots of new jobs coming in; thanks for sharing! It’s been slower on the posts side, so please let me know if you’ve written something or seen a great post from a local author. I’m going on vacation, so no newsletter next week, but I’ll be back in mid-June.
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Good Local Posts
Randy Au wrote about working with BirdNET, and setting it up with a device to identify nearby birds. It includes features like saving sound clips of the bird calls it detects.
A few weeks ago I mentioned the question of whether o3 is AGI. Sayash Kapoor and Arvind Narayanan argue that AGI is not a true milestone: there's no single capability threshold that leads to sudden, transformative impacts. I’m not sure I totally agree with the assessment, but I did enjoy the list of 21 different definitions of AGI they link to.
Thomas Sobolik of Datadog put together a great list of key metrics for monitoring Airflow. It’s a solid intro to monitoring the orchestrator!
Upcoming In-Person Events (new listings in bold)
6/2 - 6/8: NY Tech Week
6/3: Pulse NYC
6/4: Axios AI+ NY Summit
6/4: Building Knowledge Graphs: Getting the Most Out of Your Data with LLMs and NLP
6/5: Generative AI Summit
9/18: Data Management Summit
Open Roles
Squarespace is hiring a Marketing Analyst, a Data Scientist, and especially Data Platform Engineers.
Trade Coffee is looking for a Director of Data & Analytics.
Integral is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Operations Engineer.
Hearst is hiring a Senior Engineer, Generative AI.
J. Crew is looking for a BI Analyst.
Moody’s is seeking an AVP-Business Analytics.
Warner Music is looking for a Data Scientist.
Miscellany
Airbnb wrote up the details of their Interactive Voice Response system. I’ve never worked with one of these systems, so was interested in the high-level flow.
I saw this recent post about visiting Tunisia on Hacker News: I spent a few weeks there 20 years ago, and this matches my experience. I hadn’t thought about it in a long time and it brought back some good memories!
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