Una Singo
Advisor, musician and husband — upskilling in public, and sharing every step of it with the world.
Notes from teaching myself, out loud.
Things I'm building to learn.
Learning AI Out Loud
Building language models from scratch and explaining them out loud — from tokens to transformers, one episode at a time. Each idea gets the simplest version that works, plus a demo you can click through. The point isn't the models. It's understanding every line of them.
Signal
shippedThe generative mark on this page — an audio waveform that resolves into a portrait, a skyline, or an oscilloscope figure. New every visit.
The demos
tinkeringSmall interactive toys that ship with the writing — assemble a model one step at a time and watch it work, then watch it break. Built to be clicked, not just read.
My New York, in short.
Eat & drink
- DinnerPiccola CucinaUpper West Side
- BagelsBlack SeedLong Island City
- CoffeeAt homeevery morning
Move & hear
- JazzDjangoTribeca
- SwimEquinoxHudson Yards
- RunThe waterfrontWilliamsburg & LIC
The short list — ask me for the long one.
Writing Learning AI Out Loud, slowly and on purpose. This month: finishing the next episode — building a small language model from scratch, by hand, to show what actually happens when a machine predicts the next word. Reading about attention, shipping small interactive demos, and playing more bass than I have in years.