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Lior Gazit
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Lior Gazit

Lior Gazit is a highly skilled Machine Learning professional with a proven track record of success in building and leading teams drive business growth. He is an expert in Natural Language Processing and has successfully developed innovative Machine Learning pipelines and products. He holds a Master degree and has published in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. As a Senior Director of the Machine Learning group in the Financial sector, and a Principal Machine Learning Advisor at an emerging startup, Lior is a respected leader in the industry, with a wealth of knowledge and experience to share. With much passion and inspiration, Lior is dedicated to using Machine Learning to drive positive change and growth in his organizations.
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Meysam Ghaffari
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Meysam Ghaffari

Meysam Ghaffari is a Senior Data Scientist with a strong background in Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning. Currently working at MSKCC, where he specialize in developing and improving Machine Learning and NLP models for healthcare problems. He has over 9 years of experience in Machine Learning and over 4 years of experience in NLP and Deep Learning. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Florida State University, His MS in Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence from Isfahan University of Technology and his B.S. in Computer Science at Iran University of Science and Technology. He also worked as a post doctoral research associate at University of Wisconsin-Madison before joining MSKCC.
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Basic probability for machine learning

Probability provides information about the likelihood of an event occurring. In this field, there are several key terms that are important to understand:

  • Trial or experiment: An action that results in a certain outcome with a certain likelihood
  • Sample space: This encompasses all potential outcomes of a given experiment
  • Event: This denotes a non-empty portion of the sample space

Therefore, in technical terms, probability is a measure of the likelihood of an event occurring when an experiment is conducted.

In this very simple case, the probability of event A with one outcome is equal to the chance of event A divided by the chance of all possible events. For example, in flipping a fair coin, there are two outcomes with the same chance: heads and tails. The chance of having heads will be 1/(1+1) = ½.

In order to calculate the probability, given an event, A, with n outcomes and a sample space, S, the probability of...

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Lior Gazit

Lior Gazit is a highly skilled Machine Learning professional with a proven track record of success in building and leading teams drive business growth. He is an expert in Natural Language Processing and has successfully developed innovative Machine Learning pipelines and products. He holds a Master degree and has published in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. As a Senior Director of the Machine Learning group in the Financial sector, and a Principal Machine Learning Advisor at an emerging startup, Lior is a respected leader in the industry, with a wealth of knowledge and experience to share. With much passion and inspiration, Lior is dedicated to using Machine Learning to drive positive change and growth in his organizations.
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Meysam Ghaffari

Meysam Ghaffari is a Senior Data Scientist with a strong background in Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning. Currently working at MSKCC, where he specialize in developing and improving Machine Learning and NLP models for healthcare problems. He has over 9 years of experience in Machine Learning and over 4 years of experience in NLP and Deep Learning. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Florida State University, His MS in Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence from Isfahan University of Technology and his B.S. in Computer Science at Iran University of Science and Technology. He also worked as a post doctoral research associate at University of Wisconsin-Madison before joining MSKCC.
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