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Mar 13

Six Lessons Learned From Hyper-Growing a Data-Science Group

Some counter-intuitive and highly-effective insights I learned while establishing a group of ten Data Scientists and several models in production within a single year — When I joined Lightricks at the end of 2021, I was supposed to lead a small, somewhat experimental, team of 2 researchers plus me. That was perfect for me, as this would be my first official role as a manager. But on my first day on the job, the company’s…

Management

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Six Lessons Learned From Hyper-Growing a Data-Science Group
Six Lessons Learned From Hyper-Growing a Data-Science Group
Management

7 min read


Published in Towards Data Science

·Jul 31, 2022

6 Papers Every Modern Data Scientist Must Read

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…

Artificial Intelligence

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6 Papers Every Modern Data Scientist Must Read
6 Papers Every Modern Data Scientist Must Read
Artificial Intelligence

8 min read


May 2, 2021

The Metric System: How to Correctly Measure Your Model

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…

Machine Learning

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The Metric System: How to Correctly Measure Your Model
The Metric System: How to Correctly Measure Your Model
Machine Learning

11 min read


Jan 23, 2021

Why COVID-19 Vaccines Are a Requiem for Humanity

“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…

Covid 19

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Why COVID-19 Vaccines Are a Requiem for Humanity
Why COVID-19 Vaccines Are a Requiem for Humanity
Covid 19

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Dec 22, 2020

How I Keep Up with the Latest Innovations in AI and ML

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. …

Artificial Intelligence

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How I Keep Up with the Latest Innovations in AI and ML
How I Keep Up with the Latest Innovations in AI and ML
Artificial Intelligence

4 min read


Sep 20, 2020

Yes, You Can: How to Kickstart Your Career as a Data Scientist

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. …

Data Science

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Yes, You Can: How to Kickstart Your Career as a Data Scientist
Yes, You Can: How to Kickstart Your Career as a Data Scientist
Data Science

7 min read


Published in Towards Data Science

·Apr 9, 2020

How to Build Your First Python Package

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…

Programming

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How to Build Your First Python Package
How to Build Your First Python Package
Programming

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Mar 30, 2020

Hard ROC: Really Understanding & Properly Using ROC and AUC

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…

Machine Learning

7 min read

Hard ROC: Really Understanding & Properly Using ROC and AUC
Hard ROC: Really Understanding & Properly Using ROC and AUC
Machine Learning

7 min read


Nov 24, 2019

Qrash Course II: From Q-Learning to Gradient Policy & Actor-Critic in 12 Minutes

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…

Machine Learning

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Qrash Course II: From Q-Learning to Gradient Policy & Actor-Critic in 12 Minutes
Qrash Course II: From Q-Learning to Gradient Policy & Actor-Critic in 12 Minutes
Machine Learning

12 min read


Nov 11, 2019

Performing Exploration, Robin-Hood Style

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…

Machine Learning

6 min read

Performing Exploration, Robin-Hood Style
Performing Exploration, Robin-Hood Style
Machine Learning

6 min read

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Shaked Zychlinski

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Head of Recommendations at Lightricks. Lives in Tel-Aviv, Israel. See me on shakedzy.xyz

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