Drew ConwayInterview
Researcher (terrorism, maths, stats, machine learning)
Adapted from Drew Conway's interview on Uses This, published 30 September 2011. 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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Once those ideas are ready for some crunching, I have a 15" display 2 GHz MacBook Pro with 4GB of RAM as my primary machine.
Communication
The only text editor exception I make is for doing blog posts, where I use MarsEdit.
Productivity
Browser
Notes
Coding & Development
At this point I have programmed in so many key-stroke combos to my TextMate that I might as well be in Emacs, but alas.
I am a huge fan of ipython for doing Python hacking at the command-line, and am super excited for the next big release.
I am slowly warming to RStudio as a possible alternative to doing all my R coding between TextMate and the R console, but given the amount of effort I have put into customizing TextMate it is still a ways off.
Other
I also have an old (circa 2008) ThinkPad with Ubuntu 11 installed, for when Mac OS is giving me fits with an installation.