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Anthony So is a renowned leader in data science. He has extensive experience in solving complex business problems using advanced analytics and AI in different industries including financial services, media, and telecommunications. He is currently the chief data officer of one of the most innovative fintech start-ups. He is also the author of several best-selling books on data science, machine learning, and deep learning. He has won multiple prizes at several hackathon competitions, such as Unearthed, GovHack, and Pepper Money. Anthony holds two master's degrees, one in computer science and the other in data science and innovation.
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William So is a Data Scientist with both a strong academic background and extensive professional experience. He is currently the Head of Data Science at Douugh and also a Lecturer for Master of Data Science and Innovation at the University of Technology Sydney. During his career, he successfully covered the end-end spectrum of data analytics from ML to Business Intelligence helping stakeholders derive valuable insights and achieve amazing results that benefits the business. William is a co-author of the "The Applied Artificial Intelligence Workshop" published by Packt.
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Zsolt Nagy is an engineering manager in an ad tech company heavy on data science. After acquiring his MSc in inference on ontologies, he used AI mainly for analyzing online poker strategies to aid professional poker players in decision making. After the poker boom ended, he put extra effort into building a T-shaped profile in leadership and software engineering.
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Forward Propagation and the Loss Function

So far, we have seen how a neuron can take an input and perform some mathematical operations on it and get an output. We learned that a neural network is a combination of multiple layers of neurons.

The process of transforming the inputs of a neural network into a result is called forward propagation (or the forward pass). What we are asking the neural network to do is to make a prediction (the final output of the neural network) by applying multiple neurons to the input data:

Figure 6.11: Figure showing forward propagation

The neural network relies on the weights matrices, biases, and activation function of each neuron to calculate the predicted output value, b. For now, let's assume the values of the weight matrices and biases are set in advance. The activation functions are defined when you design the architecture of the neural networks.

As for any supervised machine learning algorithm, the goal is...

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Anthony So

Anthony So is a renowned leader in data science. He has extensive experience in solving complex business problems using advanced analytics and AI in different industries including financial services, media, and telecommunications. He is currently the chief data officer of one of the most innovative fintech start-ups. He is also the author of several best-selling books on data science, machine learning, and deep learning. He has won multiple prizes at several hackathon competitions, such as Unearthed, GovHack, and Pepper Money. Anthony holds two master's degrees, one in computer science and the other in data science and innovation.
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William So

William So is a Data Scientist with both a strong academic background and extensive professional experience. He is currently the Head of Data Science at Douugh and also a Lecturer for Master of Data Science and Innovation at the University of Technology Sydney. During his career, he successfully covered the end-end spectrum of data analytics from ML to Business Intelligence helping stakeholders derive valuable insights and achieve amazing results that benefits the business. William is a co-author of the "The Applied Artificial Intelligence Workshop" published by Packt.
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Zsolt Nagy

Zsolt Nagy is an engineering manager in an ad tech company heavy on data science. After acquiring his MSc in inference on ontologies, he used AI mainly for analyzing online poker strategies to aid professional poker players in decision making. After the poker boom ended, he put extra effort into building a T-shaped profile in leadership and software engineering.
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