Reading in Shakespeare
“For well thou know’st, to my dear doting heart”
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 131
I’m embarking on a new research project: to recognize a font from a snippet of Shakespeare set in that font. The above quote happened to be one of the example phrases I looked it, and I think captures the spirit of machine learning.
This episode was mostly reading in data. I had prepped the dataset already (hand crafted using PIL), but I explored how to read in a hdf5
file in python. All the code for this project is available on Github.