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I'm ManuelMy friends call me Manu or Manoletre Cárdenas Prieto.
I'm a software engineerMostly full-stack development., former math teacherTaught math in German to 11yr and 16–17yr olds. But teaching taught me more: about empathy and listening., ex-founderRight when ChatGPT was released, built tools for teachers and students. Learned to ship fast and the importance of focus., and currently diving into machine learningAll my electives were ML courses — see below for more detail., large language modelsMostly finetuned small LLMs with SFT and DPO/GRPO., and the science of learning at StanfordMS in Learning Design and Technology. All my electives were AI courses.
Previous to Stanford, I studied CS @ TUMGermany's nr. 1 CS university., and was part of CDTMAn add-on study program. Learn more →'s Spring 21 class.
Projects
At Stanford
Machine Learning
Predicting school performance from satellite imagery
How much of a school's test performance is visible from space? Predicting Colombian school outcomes from satellite imagery.
Read more →Turning research papers into Manim animations
Fine-tuning a small model to generate Manim animations straight from a research paper.
Read more →Classifying hallucinations in a small language model
My first model ever: a classifier that predicts when a small LLM is hallucinating.
Read more →Learning
Conversatio: an AI interview simulator
Practice behavioral and technical interviews with an AI and get realtime feedback.
Read more →Learning Machine Learning: an interactive explorable
I adapted TensorFlow's Playground into a guided tool for learning what each ML hyperparameter actually does.
Read more →A talking, listening bee: my first hardware project
Exploring what a toy that kids get to talk to could be
Read more →Previously
Hablo.pro: a conversational language tutor
A language tutor I built and launched (168 upvotes on Product Hunt), now discontinued. My first time building real-time voice agents.
Read more →Veomath: Math animations on demand
A tool that generates interactive Manim animations on demand so you can learn concepts visually.
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