Alec Cooper

ShakespeareTranslator is a personal project that uses a seq2seq language model in Tensorflow to create translations between modern and shakespearean english. A dataset was created by scraping a website with the python libraries beautiful soup and selenium. This dataset was cleaned, parsed, tokenized and embedded to be fed into a... [Read More]

Inuktitut-Detect is a personal project that uses LSTMs and convolutional neural networks to classify words between english and inuktitut. The project was built to learn more about NLP and experiment with the Inuktitut Parallel Corpus. [Read More]

The final project for the University of Waterloo’s Machine Learning in the Physical Sciences class was to recreate the results of a research paper of our choosing. My team chose the paper Self-Learning Monte Carlo Method. Working in a team of four we recreated an algorithm that updates states in... [Read More]

The term project for Waterloo’s Introduction to the Implementation of Quantum Information Processing was to write a small literature review around a paper on our choosing. I chose to write about the paper Quantum Cryptography with Entangled Photons. My paper can be found here!