A list of some of the most important modern fundamentals of Deep Learning everyone in the field show be familiar with — Listen to me discussing these papers on ExplAInable Podcast [Hebrew] Data Scientist, Machine Learning Expert, Algorithm Engineer, Deep Learning Researcher — whatever your title might be, if using advanced concepts of Machine Learning is part of your career, then keeping up to date with the latest innovations is also a…

The deep dive into the world of model assessment metrics that you didn’t know you needed to know — until now — The code used to generate the graphs and the KS Area Between Curves computation in this post is available as part of the dython library Here’s a classic scenario you probably ran into as a Data Scientist — you need to train a binary classifier, say a simple logistic regression…

“We can’t be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests” — One of my favorite movies as a kid was Independence Day (here in Israel it was known as The Third Day, as it takes place on July 4th, and, well, most of the world doesn’t celebrate independency on that day). Briefly, it tells the story of an alien invasion to…

Breaking down my reading list of what’s new in the AI world — The field of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence is changing rapidly. Five years ago, classical Machine Learning was the hottest trend; now it’s just like an iPhone 6S — outdated. …

Answering frequently asked questions by junior data scientists and data scientists-to-be about first steps towards a DS career — In case you missed it, there’s a pandemic out there, and it forces all of us to shut down all public events. As time goes by, we all begin to understand the impact of the lockdowns, social distancing and absence of gatherings. …

Make your awesome code conveniently available to the world, because you’re awesome too — Read this on Medium without being a Medium member using this Friends Link! This blogpost is now available in Polish too, read it on BulldogJob.pl About two years ago I published my very first data-science related blogpost. It was about Categorical Correlations, and I honestly thought no-one will find it…

Learn how to use ROC curves and AUC scores for more than just saying “I think this model performs well” — The ROC graphs generating code used in this post is available as part of the dython library, which can be found on my GitHub page. Examples seen in this post are also available as a notebook. Read this blogpost even without being a Medium member using this Friends Link Assessing…

Taking another step towards truly understanding the basics of Reinforcement Learning — Implementations of all algorithms discussed in this blogpost can be found on my GitHub page. Read this blogpost even without being a Medium member using this Friends Link The Qrash Course Series: Part 1: Introduction to Reinforcement Learning and Q-Learning Part 2: Policy Gradients and Actor-Critic The previous — and…

How to perform valuable exploration for brand new items with nothing more than a simple trick on our items’ embeddings — This blog post was originally published on Taboola’s Engineering Blog. Our core business at Taboola is to provide the surfers-of-the-web with personalized content recommendations wherever they might surf. We do so using state of the art Deep Learning methods, which learn what to display to each user from our growing…