Vanishing Gradients

By Hugo Bowne-Anderson

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Episodes: 65

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A podcast about all things data & AI, brought to you by AI builder, consultant, and educator Hugo Bowne-Anderson. It's time for more critical conversations about the challenges in our industry in order to build better compasses for the solution space! To this end, this podcast will consist of long-format conversations between Hugo and other people who work broadly in the data science, machine learning, and AI spaces. We'll dive deep into all the moving parts of the data world, so if you're new to the space, you'll have an opportunity to learn from the experts. And if you've been around for a while, you'll find out what's happening in many other parts of the data world.

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Episode Date
The Rise of Agentic Search
Dec 19, 2025
Episode 64: Data Science Meets Agentic AI with Michael Kennedy (Talk Python)
Dec 03, 2025
Episode 63: Why Gemini 3 Will Change How You Build AI Agents with Ravin Kumar (Google DeepMind)
Nov 22, 2025
Episode 62: Practical AI at Work: How Execs and Developers Can Actually Use LLMs
Oct 31, 2025
Episode 61: The AI Agent Reliability Cliff: What Happens When Tools Fail in Production
Oct 16, 2025
Episode 60: 10 Things I Hate About AI Evals with Hamel Husain
Sep 30, 2025
Episode 59: Patterns and Anti-Patterns For Building with AI
Sep 23, 2025
Episode 58: Building GenAI Systems That Make Business Decisions with Thomas Wiecki (PyMC Labs)
Sep 09, 2025
Episode 57: AI Agents and LLM Judges at Scale: Processing Millions of Documents (Without Breaking the Bank)
Aug 29, 2025
Episode 56: DeepMind Just Dropped Gemma 270M... And Here’s Why It Matters
Aug 14, 2025
Episode 55: From Frittatas to Production LLMs: Breakfast at SciPy
Aug 12, 2025
Episode 54: Scaling AI: From Colab to Clusters — A Practitioner’s Guide to Distributed Training and Inference
Jul 18, 2025
Episode 53: Human-Seeded Evals & Self-Tuning Agents: Samuel Colvin on Shipping Reliable LLMs
Jul 08, 2025
Episode 52: Why Most LLM Products Break at Retrieval (And How to Fix Them)
Jul 02, 2025
Episode 51: Why We Built an MCP Server and What Broke First
Jun 26, 2025
Episode 50: A Field Guide to Rapidly Improving AI Products -- With Hamel Husain
Jun 17, 2025
Episode 49: Why Data and AI Still Break at Scale (and What to Do About It)
Jun 05, 2025
Episode 48: How to Benchmark AGI with Greg Kamradt (ARC-AGI)
May 23, 2025
Episode 47: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch of Code Slop with Joe Reis
Apr 07, 2025
Episode 46: Software Composition Is the New Vibe Coding
Apr 03, 2025
Episode 45: Your AI application is broken. Here’s what to do about it.
Feb 20, 2025
Episode 44: The Future of AI Coding Assistants: Who’s Really in Control?
Feb 04, 2025
Episode 43: Tales from 400+ LLM Deployments: Building Reliable AI Agents in Production
Jan 16, 2025
Episode 42: Learning, Teaching, and Building in the Age of AI
Jan 04, 2025
Episode 41: Beyond Prompt Engineering: Can AI Learn to Set Its Own Goals?
Dec 30, 2024
Episode 40: What Every LLM Developer Needs to Know About GPUs
Dec 24, 2024
Episode 39: From Models to Products: Bridging Research and Practice in Generative AI at Google Labs
Nov 25, 2024
Episode 38: The Art of Freelance AI Consulting and Products: Data, Dollars, and Deliverables
Nov 04, 2024
Episode 37: Prompt Engineering, Security in Generative AI, and the Future of AI Research Part 2
Oct 08, 2024
Episode 36: Prompt Engineering, Security in Generative AI, and the Future of AI Research Part 1
Sep 30, 2024
Episode 35: Open Science at NASA -- Measuring Impact and the Future of AI
Sep 19, 2024
Episode 34: The AI Revolution Will Not Be Monopolized
Aug 22, 2024
Episode 33: What We Learned Teaching LLMs to 1,000s of Data Scientists
Aug 12, 2024
Episode 32: Building Reliable and Robust ML/AI Pipelines
Jul 27, 2024
Episode 31: Rethinking Data Science, Machine Learning, and AI
Jul 09, 2024
Episode 30: Lessons from a Year of Building with LLMs (Part 2)
Jun 26, 2024
Episode 29: Lessons from a Year of Building with LLMs (Part 1)
Jun 26, 2024
Episode 28: Beyond Supervised Learning: The Rise of In-Context Learning with LLMs
Jun 09, 2024
Episode 27: How to Build Terrible AI Systems
May 31, 2024
Episode 26: Developing and Training LLMs From Scratch
May 15, 2024
Episode 25: Fully Reproducible ML & AI Workflows
Mar 18, 2024
Episode 24: LLM and GenAI Accessibility
Feb 27, 2024
Episode 23: Statistical and Algorithmic Thinking in the AI Age
Dec 20, 2023
Episode 22: LLMs, OpenAI, and the Existential Crisis for Machine Learning Engineering
Nov 27, 2023
Episode 21: Deploying LLMs in Production: Lessons Learned
Nov 14, 2023
Episode 20: Data Science: Past, Present, and Future
Oct 05, 2023
Episode 19: Privacy and Security in Data Science and Machine Learning
Aug 14, 2023
Episode 18: Research Data Science in Biotech
May 24, 2023
Episode 17: End-to-End Data Science
Feb 17, 2023
Episode 16: Data Science and Decision Making Under Uncertainty
Dec 14, 2022
Episode 15: Uncertainty, Risk, and Simulation in Data Science
Dec 07, 2022
Episode 14: Decision Science, MLOps, and Machine Learning Everywhere
Nov 20, 2022
Episode 13: The Data Science Skills Gap, Economics, and Public Health
Oct 11, 2022
Episode 12: Data Science for Social Media: Twitter and Reddit
Sep 30, 2022
Episode 11: Data Science: The Great Stagnation
Sep 16, 2022
Episode 10: Investing in Machine Learning
Aug 18, 2022
9: AutoML, Literate Programming, and Data Tooling Cargo Cults
Jul 19, 2022
Episode 8: The Open Source Cybernetic Revolution
May 16, 2022
Episode 7: The Evolution of Python for Data Science
May 01, 2022
Episode 6: Bullshit Jobs in Data Science (and what to do about them)
Apr 04, 2022
Episode 5: Executive Data Science
Mar 23, 2022
Episode 4: Machine Learning at T-Mobile
Mar 09, 2022
Episode 3: Language Tech For All
Mar 01, 2022
Episode 2: Making Data Science Uncool Again
Feb 20, 2022
Episode 1: Introducing Vanishing Gradients
Feb 16, 2022