Dr. Heloise StevanceInterview
Computational astrophysicist
Adapted from Dr. Heloise Stevance's interview on Uses This, published 27 February 2021. 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 have a Dell laptop with 12 threads (Core i7-9850H - 2.60GHz) and 16GB of RAM as well as a GPU (NVIDIA).
I also have a Logitech Marble Mouse which I have had for years and adore.
Productivity
I love working in Jupyter notebooks for day-to-day data analysis or when I start developing new features.
Artificial Intelligence
Coding & Development
When I'm in the heart of software development I will be using PyCharm, my favourite IDE by far.
Other
As far as operating system is concerned, I'm a big fan of Ubuntu and this machine runs fully on Ubuntu 20.04.