Neha NarulaInterview
PhD student, data scientist, developer
Adapted from Neha Narula's interview on Uses This, published 5 October 2012. 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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The rest of the time I use a 13 inch MacBook Air from October 2010, which I adore with all of my being.
If I'm going to be typing a lot, I need my Kinesis Advantage.
Communication
Productivity
I use RescueTime on all my machines to get a rough idea of how much work I'm getting done each week.
I use Pocket as a read-it-later service, but I've found that I never actually go back to read what I've saved.
Browser
I also love the Evernote Web Clipper Chrome extension; I can use it to easily save research ideas and things I want to buy later.
Notes
I use Evernote to store all of my random thoughts and lists because it syncs so effortlessly.
Coding & Development
I have made the right Control key sticky, which helps a lot with emacs.
I use the common assortment of unix commands, and screen on almost every server to maintain my state.
To make it easy to work anywhere I ssh into my Ubuntu box from my MacBook Air and resume where I left off.
Other
For research I use a modern PC running Ubuntu.
For running experiments, I spin up servers on Amazon EC2 or use a 48 core Linux machine we have in our lab.