“Marketing was the true reason,” said Matthew Hargarten, another company spokesman.
Not Denver’s ability to market itself, but rather Molson Coors’ ability to find and retain the marketing talent it needed to roll out a host of new products designed to appeal to shifting consumer preferences in a world of flattening beer sales.
Molson Coors said Wednesday it would close its Denver corporate headquarters, eliminating or moving 300 jobs. The move, part of a larger reduction of up to 500 jobs, is expected to save the company $150 million a year.
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Food is closely linked to health, yet federal nutrition research is underfunded, even as the costs of diet-related diseases are skyrocketing. Does Washington hold the key to solving the obesity crisis?
Since the advent of Amazon, in particular, retailers have been trying to find new ways to attract customers and meet their ever-increasing demands. Stores have moved online, adopted “bricks and clicks” models, expanded and contracted, and generally changed. As Toni Calvo recently pointed out, there is no one-size-fits-all for retail.
Two recent innovations are particularly important. First is the rise of hyperpersonalisation. Retailers have started to approach customers as segments of one, tailoring offers very precisely to individuals in real time to maximize engagement. This is both online and in store, where smart shelves are able to provide offers as customers pass by.
The second innovation or trend is what underpins this personalization: the use of analytics. Increasingly retailers are seeing that they can use analytics to improve operations across the board. Analytics is useful for looking at customer behaviour and improving customer experience. But retailers can also use it to make better stock and inventory decisions. Ensuring that stock matches demand reduces both waste and lost sales, improving profitability.
The amount of bias is really, really high: on the GRE (grad school admissions exam), African Americans do 0.8 points worse with the algorithm than with human graders! That’s on a six point scale. Seems likely that the *majority* of af-am test takers were affected.
Whether you like it or not, we all have a “secret score.” As consumers, this secret score determines if you get the Liza Minnelli treatment while on hold when calling a business or returning items at a store—more generally, it determines what type of service you’ll receive as a consumer.
And do you want to know something crazy? These secret scores are largely invisible to the public.
Ugh. Ready to have your skin crawl?
According to The New York Times, a company called Sift has a file on you.
As the climate crisis worsens, and with Donald Trump formally withdraws the US from the Paris Climate Accord, a new study shows that three major state pension funds in California and Colorado (CalSTRS, CalPERS and PERA), collectively lost over $19 billion in retirement savings for teachers, state troopers and public workers by continuing to invest in fossil fuels.
The study performed by media and analysis firm Corporate Knights calls into question the rationale for investing in the risky oil, coal, and gas industries, whose stocks damage both the portfolios’ profits and the planet’s life support systems. Members of California’s State Teachers’ Retirement System plan to attend that fund’s Investment Committee meeting on Wednesday, November 6, demanding answers about why the fund continues to lose money on fossil fuels
President Donald Trump announced his intent to appoint oncologist Stephen Hahn to the role of Food and Drug Administration commissioner. Hahn has worked for the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, for the past four years and became its chief medical executive in 2018, reports Science.
If appointed, Hahn would become the fourth agency head in seven months. Ned Sharpless, the previous director of the National Cancer Institute, has been the FDA’s acting commissioner since the spring, when Scott Gottleib, now of the American Enterprise Institute, stepped down as commissioner, according to the Associated Press. Physician Stephen Ostroff led the FDA from January to May 2017, when Gottleib’s tenure began.
New York City has become the latest — and most populous — city to adopt ranked-choice voting, a major milestone for voting reform efforts.
Voters in the city overwhelmingly approved Ballot Question 1 on Tuesday, enabling voters to begin using ranked-choice voting in local primary and special elections beginning in 2021.
New York City joins 20 other cities around the country, as well as multiple states, that have already started using this method in various elections.
As of today, UBC is the first campus in Canada to be fully outfitted with 5G wireless technology.
“The purpose of the installation on our campus is to look into how 5G will be used in the future,” said Dr. Gail Murphy, UBC’s vice-president, research and innovation. “We are not at this moment focusing on how people on campus can use it at their will, we are looking at projects that make use of the technology and try and understand some of its boundaries.”
Proteins are key molecules in living cells. They are responsible for nearly every task of cellular life and are essential for the maintenance of the structure, function, and regulation of tissues and organs in the human body.
The cells in the human body can form thousands of different types of proteins (the so called proteome), which perform a plethora of diverse functions, all crucial for cell viability and human health. Assigning functions to the vast array of proteins present in our cells remains a challenging task in cell biology.
Scientists have now produced a co-regulation map of the human proteome, which was able to capture relationships between proteins that do not physically interact or co-localize. This will enable the prediction and assignment of functions to uncharacterised human proteins. The co-regulation map can be explored at www.proteomeHD.net.
Today we navigate our way across cities, pull up electronic tickets, purchase items, monitor our health, and, of course, stay connected with friends and family on our smartphones. The smartphone is one of those innovations that make us think, “how did I ever function without it?” Smartphones revolutionized our personal lives, but there’s a megatrend set to disrupt the business world; it’s called augmented analytics.
Augmented analytics is on the cusp of becoming the business world’s next significant evolution.
Gartner identified augmented analytics as to the number 1 top trend for data and analytics technology in 2019, and market leaders are already starting to invest in this burgeoning industry.
SAP recently acquired augmented people analytics company Qualtrics for $8 billion, shelling out a price equivalent to over 20x the company’s current revenue. A newcomer to the game, Denver based startup Nodin raised $5 million in funding this past March, a month before even launching its platform.
For all the ease with which the wildly popular CRISPR–Cas9 gene-editing tool alters genomes, it’s still somewhat clunky and prone to errors and unintended effects. Now, a recently developed alternative offers greater control over genome edits — an advance that could be particularly important for developing gene therapies.
The alternative method, called prime editing, improves the chances that researchers will end up with only the edits they want, instead of a mix of changes that they can’t predict.
Self-driving trucks may have once seemed like a futuristic vision.
But in recent years, they’ve begun taking to the road — and their implications for the labor market, and long-haul truck drivers in particular, could be enormous.
In the above excerpt from the new FRONTLINE documentary In the Age of AI, meet the young CEO of a self-driving truck company whose vehicles are already delivering freight from California to Arizona; an independent trucker and his wife whose livelihood could be threatened by the new tech; and a sociologist and author who’s been studying the forces reshaping the trucking industry. [video, 7:19]
Walk into Mike Ryan’s office here on the orderly campus of the World Health Organization and you are in a train station.
Staff members rush in to see the agency’s ruddy, fast-talking emergencies chief to seek guidance on the various disease outbreaks they are trying to end. People crowd into the office where a pair of assistants are stationed, waiting their turn. When Ryan’s door is closed, it’s not long before a hand is rapping on the other side.
Ryan and his staff are firemen, the paramedics of global health. Their work is all front-burner stuff. Half an hour spent on this is 30 minutes not spent on that. There is the Ebola crisis — and a massive measles outbreak — in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Rohingya refugee situation in Bangladesh, too many crises to count in Yemen and Syria.
Financial markets are supposed to price risk. But there aren’t many financial tools for managing perhaps the biggest risk facing the world: climate change. Finance scholars at Yale SOM and NYU have put forth a proposal to help markets make a difference in combating climate change.
London, England November 14, starting at 6 p.m. “If you and your company are looking to improve your customer experience with data, this is an event you can’t miss.” [registration required]
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No one wants to be left struggling for an answer in front of a client or a boss, or stuck stammering in a job interview or networking event. The solution, of course, is to go into all conversations and presentations feeling eminently prepared.
Easier said than done, we know. But Kellogg faculty have advice on how to be prepared for several common career situations (and perhaps even that calculus test in your dreams).
Character encoding, the representation of letters and symbols on a computer, is a problem that will never go away; it can only be made less painful. The reason is simple — so long as humans are unable to read binary and need to read characters, there will always be a need to convert from bits and bytes into characters that obey both linguistic and computation limitations.
“Unpaywall Journals needed data on whether a given journal is associated with an academic society, to help inform librarians in their subscription decisions. Alas there was no open source of this information.”
“As the final model release of GPT-2’s staged release, we’re releasing the largest version (1.5B parameters) of GPT-2 along with code and model weights to facilitate detection of outputs of GPT-2 models. While there have been larger language models released since August, we’ve continued with our original staged release plan in order to provide the community with a test case of a full staged release process. We hope that this test case will be useful to developers of future powerful models, and we’re actively continuing the conversation with the AI community on responsible publication.”