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.
Robot to Red Light
A New York permit-test guide for drivers trained on South African roads. Most apps teach the manual from zero; this one assumes you can already drive, and treats the real problem as interference rather than ignorance. Every rule arrives as a bridge from a habit you already own — and says plainly whether that habit survives the crossing.
- same rule — trust it
- mirrored — flip it
- rewired — override it
- no SA version — learn it
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.
Promoted to Principal at BCG in August — ten years after Grow@BCG, which feels like a good moment to take stock of the next ten. Also shipped a small thing I'm proud of: a New York permit-test study guide for drivers trained on South African roads (drive.singolab.com). Still writing Learning AI Out Loud, slowly and on purpose. Reading about attention, shipping small interactive demos, and playing more bass than I have in years.