Mars Buttfield-AddisonInterview
Developer, PhD candidate
Adapted from Mars Buttfield-Addison's interview on Uses This, published 26 December 2020. 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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ACS Tasmania) and community advocate in the field of Swift and Apple platform development; and
I share a 32m² (345ft²) micro-apartment with my husband who is also in tech and we even share a desk, so at home we each just have a home-built mini tower computer with a single monitor.
And our whole house runs off a single AirPort Extreme.
Most of my work is done on a 16-inch 2019 MacBook Pro (i9, with 32GB memory and dedicated graphics) that I love to pieces; I can train complex machine learning models on-device in a matter of hours, and I do graphics stuff and have like 400 million tabs and papers open all the time and it doesn't miss a beat.
Communication
Likewise, it's great for fast composition of documents from simple Markdown or plain text with its Markdown PDF extension.
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Coding & Development
I also use a bit of the Unity game engine to teach AI concepts and make 3D bots.
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a member of the WesterosCraft project team that is slowly recreating the entire world of Game of Thrones in Minecraft...
It's great but I would also like to learn Godot Engine as an open source alternative that's a bit more accessible.