Alp Altug
Hello there! I'm a 23-year-old software programmer currently based in Seattle, WA. Feel free to navigate through my personal website; where you can find my resume, projects I worked on the side for fun, and more.
Featured Posts/Projects
Generating Shakespeare with Transformers: From Attention to Elizabethan Prose
Building a decoder-only transformer from scratch to generate Shakespeare-style text. A deep dive into multi-head attention, positional encoding, and the magic of "Attention Is All You Need".
Building a Custom BPE Tokenizer: From Wikipedia to Real-Time Text Processing
Deep dive into creating a Byte-Pair Encoding tokenizer from scratch, training it on Jayson Tatum Wikipedia data, and building a real-time tokenization interface.
Character-Level Movie Title Generator - Deep Learning from Scratch
Building a custom MLP architecture with Batch Normalization for character-level text generation. A deep dive into neural network fundamentals and the magic of BatchNorm.
Autograd from Scratch: Demystifying Backpropagation with a Custom MLP
Dive deep into the core mechanics of neural networks by building a custom automatic differentiation (autograd) engine and a Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) from the ground up.
Welcome to My Personal Website!
Welcome to my personal corner of the internet! Explore my projects, get to know me, and see what I've been working on.