I'm the hiring manager and happy to answer any questions about the role. I just joined CNN after years at The Echo Nest/Spotify and we have some very exciting recsys work brewing.
We are hiring machine learning and data engineers in our NY and Boston offices. You will take on complex problems using some of the most diverse data sets available -- user behaviors, acoustical analysis, cultural and contextual data, and other signals across our broad range of mobile and connected platforms. You will work with a team to come up with new and interesting hypotheses, test them, and scale them up to huge data sets with hundreds of billions of data points. Above all, your work will impact the way the world experiences music.
We are hiring machine learning and data engineers in our NY and Boston offices. You will take on complex problems using some of the most diverse data sets available -- user behaviors, acoustical analysis, cultural and contextual data, and other signals across our broad range of mobile and connected platforms. You will work with a team to come up with new and interesting hypotheses, test them, and scale them up to huge data sets with hundreds of billions of data points. Above all, your work will impact the way the world experiences music. Work with the teams behind Fresh Finds and Discover Weekly (http://www.fastcompany.com/3049231/tech-forecast/inside-spot...)!
One thing I don't see anyone in these comments taking into account- this is music that, for various sampling law / licensing reasons, they have never been able to sell or stream online. They seem to be giving it away because they've run out of options for getting it in the hands of their fans otherwise.
This should get more upvotes as it is pretty important to understanding why they did this.
The earliest De La Soul albums were jam packed with samples that wound up getting them hit with a few lawsuits/out-of court settlements that severely hampered their ability to release this music in various new media/formats. They're definitely an artifact of the more wild-west times of hip-hop sampling.
Yeah, the story isn't quite as compelling when you put it that way. That first album would cost millions of dollars to release if they put it out today. The list of expensive samples (Johnny Cash, Led Zeppelin, Michael Jackson, etc.) on that album is totally out of control...
Oh, I don't know -- at least now new artists can (more easily) sample them, and continue making art under equally unclear legal status. One can always hope this will help push fair use to become broader, rather than narrower.
Great article but I can't get his advice for using Sublime Text as the editor to work. \e will open a new file, but saving/quitting doesn't ever run the query.
I would add "practice what you preach" to this. Everyone hates the junior developer who says "ugh, this code sucks, it doesn't even have tests." Everyone loves the junior developer who says "ugh, that code didn't even have tests, so I found a seam and added some tests for the new method I added, here's how to run them."
Anecdotally, I have certainly found that although the cost in time may not vary as much as this table would indicate, the cost in stress ramps up even faster. Fixing a bug in production is usually a highly stressful endeavor for all involved. I would love to see a similar table phrased in terms of stress comparing different development methodologies currently in vogue (test and throw it over the wall, CI, automated pushes vs. manual pushes, etc.)
And if you like that, you'll REALLY love Brian Hayes' Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape (http://www.amazon.com/Infrastructure-Field-Guide-Industrial-...). It's porn for people who like to try to figure out what the random towers in a chemical plant do, or how the electrical station you just passed on the interstate works.
More specifically to this post, we are hiring an ML engineer to join this team- https://warnermediacareers.com/global/en/job/181319BR/Sr-Mac...
I'm the hiring manager and happy to answer any questions about the role. I just joined CNN after years at The Echo Nest/Spotify and we have some very exciting recsys work brewing.
We also have loads more jobs open in data intelligence, esp for product analysts- General CNN data intelligence job postings are here- https://warnermediacareers.com/global/en/search-results?keyw...