Brandon LuciaInterview
Computer researcher, musician (netcat)
Adapted from Brandon Lucia's interview on Uses This, published 6 November 2014. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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I use a MacBook Pro with an 2.66 GHz Core 2 Duo, 8 GB of 1GHz DDR3 memory, a 256GB spinning platters, non-solid state harddrive, and a 13 inch screen.
I have a Parallella board that I can't wait to turn into something neat when I find the time.
I also use two really bright bike lights and my Samsung Galaxy S5 (in strobe light mode).
Communication
Productivity
Browser
Notes
Most of my writing is in LaTex markup.
Coding & Development
For that I have successfully used Pin, which is a dynamic binary instrumentation system.
I prefer not to use the TI-sanctioned Eclipse-based IDE.
Design
To make the figures that go in my papers, I use OmniGraffle, which rules for line art.
Media
I usually use Grooveshark to listen to music.
I used Audiofile's Rax for a while, but they discontinued it.
We use MainStage for some MIDI routing.
I made a new kind of musical instrument called the Chango that captures video with the computers camera and uses that signal to create sound.
I also made a simple audio abstraction and synthesis layer for OS X that I used in a custom, on-off program on one of our tracks to make a sequenced, 128-voice polyphonic synth pad.
Other
I am always using my Mac, so by default, I use what is available on OS X.
I use pdfTeX from the TeX Live 2012 distribution.
I have used Cmake for build configurations a few times and it works great.
I also built a generative statistical language model of web text that produces English-sounding gibberish "lyrics" for our music.