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Alex Sekula

Software engineer in the Boston area

This site describes some of my past projects.


Organizing information with LLMs

Summer 2023 — Website & Python project

The term "language model" is a bit of a misnomer — as they currently exist, they're more like "language and knowledge models"...   Read More


A lossy compression algorithm that learns features on-the-fly

Spring 2023 — Python & NumPy project

In this project, I designed an algorithm that mitigates some of the major shortcomings of modern deep learning methods. Two of these shortcomings are the following...   Read More


A wearable device for activity tracking

Winter 2023 — Python project & Arduino device

A while ago I was inspired by this Hacker News post where a user talked about how their Apple Watch helped them exercise more by gamifying exercise...   Read More


WhereTo: Restaurant recommendations from friends

Fall 2021 — React Native app

This was a simple app designed to aggregate restaurant recommendations from friends. Similar to the Google Maps list feature...   Read More


Color Hyperspheres for Lossy Image Compression

Color hyperspheres for lossy image compression

June 2020 — Python & NumPy project

This project was inspired by Geoff Hinton’s work with capsule networks. Hinton’s goal is to...   Read More


LIDAR in Virtual Reality with SLAM

LIDAR in virtual reality with SLAM

Spring 2019 — Unity & ROS project

This project was my senior capstone project through the Topics in Collaborative Robotics course at...   Read More


Facebook Messenger Chatbot

Facebook Messenger Chatbot

Spring 2018 — PyTorch project

After working with sequence to sequence models for image captioning in the semester prior, I...   Read More


Graffiti Gala: Multiplayer Drawing in Augmented Reality

Graffiti Gala: Multiplayer drawing in augmented reality

Spring 2018 — ARKit and ARCore App

At Brown’s annual hackathon, my team built off of an existing AR app that allowed...   Read More


Google Feudler: An autocomplete guessing game

Spring 2017 — Web app

This project was my final group project for Brown CS’s software engineering course. Our goal...   Read More


Micromouse Robot Simulation

Micromouse Robot Simulation

Spring 2017 — Java applet

In Spring 2017, I participated with a team in Brown’s Robotics Olympiad. Our task was...   Read More


Dominion Assistant

Dominion Assistant: An AI sidekick for Dominion

Summer 2016 — iOS app and backend

In this project, I developed an AI for the card game Dominion. The algorithm is...   Read More


Dictionare

Dictionare: A dictionary that quizzes you

Summer 2016 — iOS app

This app combines a dictionary with Quizlet. When users look up words, they are stored...   Read More


Eat@Brown

Eat@Brown: An app for dining hall menus

Spring 2016 — iOS app

I co-developed this app with a team at Brown’s annual hackathon in 2016. After our...   Read More


Other (smaller) projects

Answering questions with a pretrained, non-fine-tuned BERT language model

Spring 2023 — PyTorch project

In this project, I explored the potential to use an unmodified pretrained BERT language model to answer questions. This project was motiviated by two ideas...   Read More


An e-ink Mother's Day gift

Spring 2023 — Raspberri Pi project

For Mother's Day 2023, I thought it would be a nice idea to make my mom a dynamic e-ink picture frame that changes photos throughout the day...   Read More


Converting LIDAR to sound

Fall 2021 — Arduino project

A while back I came across some research that demonstrated that the brain will rewire in the presence of new sensory input...   Read More


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