If the name Cyrus Mehri rings a bell, it’s for good reason. The founding partner of Mehri & Skalet PLLC has litigated some of the most high-profile discrimination, corporate fraud, and civil and consumer rights cases in America. He was in the middle of two of the largest race discrimination class actions in history, going…Read More
With outsourcing becoming a necessity, it is more important than ever to understand the role of a vendor versus the role of a solutions provider. When is it a good idea to reach out to a vendor, and when are you better off retaining a solutions provider to help you achieve your objectives? Wait. Every…Read More
Thanks mostly to the Morton Salt Girl, who has graced the brand’s signature pour-top canister since 1914, Morton is one of the most recognized brands in the condiment aisle. There’s only one problem: Morton’s products are actually in plenty of places that aren’t the condiment aisle. “Most consumers know us best for the iconic round…Read More
Snapchat’s Dancing Hot Dog dances yet again. The iconic Snapchat lens resurfaced this past weekend for Vote Early Day, aimed at ensuring that eligible voters knew when and how to vote early. And the frisky frank will be available via the application’s Lens Carousel on Election Day. The Dancing Hot Dog lens works in both…Read More
Twitter continues to take steps to thwart misinformation on its platform related to the upcoming presidential election in the U.S., showing two prompts to all U.S. users starting Monday. The first prompt will address voting by mail, enforcing the fact that it is safe and secure, while the second will remind people that official announcements…Read More
Even an economic downturn brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic hasn’t stopped marketers from investing in furthering digital transformation and marketing tech, a new survey of 800 marketers around the world shows. The report, from consumer experience platform Acquia, found that 82% of respondents said they had seen a boost in return on investment from…Read More
Nissan has promoted Allyson Witherspoon to the newly created position of U.S. CMO as part of a broader realignment of its U.S. leadership team. Witherspoon was most recently vp of marketing communications and media for Nissan’s North American business. As U.S. CMO, she’ll continue to report to Nissan svp of U.S. marketing and sales, Michael…Read More
If you’ve ever used a neural network to solve a complex problem, you know they can be enormous in size, containing millions of parameters. For instance, the famous BERT model has about ~110 million. To illustrate the point, this is the number of parameters for the most common architectures in (natural language processing) NLP, as summarized in the recent State of AI Report 2020 by Nathan Benaich and Ian Hogarth. You can see this below: In Kaggle competitions, the winner models are often ensembles, composed of several predictors. Although they can beat simple models by a large margin in terms of…
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The pandemic has left consumers on a tight budget and much less likely to head to brick-and-mortar locations to purchase gifts. At the same time, shoppers are missing the joys of in-store shopping, with 71% missing discovery and casual browsing, and 73% missing tactile experiences. This means brands must craft creative online shopping experiences and…Read More
Facebook Gaming has its head in the cloud. Starting Monday, several cloud-streamed games will be available via Facebook’s flagship application and browsers, playable instantly, with no downloads required. The social network said cloud games will begin rolling out in the U.S., initially in California, Texas and Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states including: Connecticut; Delaware; Maryland; Massachusetts;…Read More
