About Vanishing Gradients
Builders need high signal resources on how to build with AI. That’s why I started Vanishing Gradients, a podcast, workshop series, blog, and newsletter.
I talk to people like Wes McKinney (creator of pandas), Fei-Fei Li (Stanford), Hamel Husain (Parlance Labs), and Shreya Shankar (UC Berkeley), and engineers from Netflix, Google DeepMind, Amazon, and Salesforce about AI, data, and what they’re working on.
I also run live workshops where we get hands on with things like multimodal AI pipelines, agents, and retrieval systems.
My goal is to help you understand what you can build right now and what’s coming next.
Support Independent AI Education
Vanishing Gradients is an independent project. All the podcasts, workshops, and writing are free. By subscribing, you help me keep making this and reaching more people. The best way to support is to subscribe and share with a friend you think it could help.
About Me
Hi, I’m Hugo! I’m an independent AI and data science consultant and educator. I’ve worked at the intersection of AI, research, and education for over 20 years.
Before moving to industry, I worked in basic research in mathematics, physics, and biology at Yale University and the Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology and Genetics. I was an early employee at DataCamp, where I built over 30 courses that reached more than 6 million learners worldwi. I led developer relations at Outerbounds (building on Metaflow, out of Netflix) and Coiled (building on Dask). I’ve taught at Yale, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, SciPy, PyCon, and ODSC, and I’ve written for Harvard Business Review and VentureBeat.
I currently teach a course on building AI applications with Stefan Krawczyk on Maven.
I care a lot about education in the age of AI. I think it’s one of the most important problems we have and I spend most of my time working on it.
Let’s Connect!
You can also find me on Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube.
Check out the Luma calendar for upcoming live workshops and conversations.
