Ross GoodwinInterview
Creative technologist, artist, hacker
Adapted from Ross Goodwin's interview on Uses This, published 4 August 2016. 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 do the vast majority of my work on a 13" MacBook Pro (c.
My primary computational workhorse is the NYU High Performance Computing facility, where I have access to 32 NVIDIA Tesla K80 GPUs, each with 24GB of GPU memory, along with large numbers of CPU cores and significant RAM allotments.
Another piece of hardware I've been using is the Datamax O'Neil microFlash 4te thermal printer.
Communication
Artificial Intelligence
More recently, I switched to Justin Johnson's torch-rnn, which is 7x more memory efficient than char-rnn.
Coding & Development
I can simply SSH into the login node for this facility, and I have all these resources available from my laptop.
Python was my first language, and I remain a devoted Python programmer.
Other
While these printers are fairly expensive when purchased new, the manufacturer has been making the same printer model for over 10 years, and used ones can be picked up for quite a bit less than retail on eBay.