![]() I use plain paper and gel ink pens, or a whiteboard, for roughing out mathematical ideas, and the whiteboard for explaining things to students. ![]() AQUAMACS SETUPS FULLI like the Gmail concept of keeping all your email and searching the full text when you need to find something. Currently Gmail and (unfortunately, because it’s what the university provides) Outlook. It tends to be PowerPoint when talking to medical researchers (when in Rome…) or trying to be funny, and LaTeX when talking to statisticians.įor posters: PowerPoint, but I really should learn Illustrator.Įmail: various web-based systems. Web browser: varies by device, but preferably Chrome or Firefox.įor presentations: LaTeX/beamer or PowerPoint or Keynote. Text editor: the Aquamacs version of Emacs, or Apple’s TextEdit, or an embedded editor (eg R.app or TeXshop)įor collaboration, I use Microsoft Office even though I don’t really like wordprocessors – there are more important things to use my persuasive powers on than choice of software. It’s been 10 years since I learned a new language, so I plan to learn JavaScript on my sabbatical, and one of Julia, Haskell, or ocaml. For coding things that need to be fast, C (gcc) or Java. The phone mostly gets used for reading, Twitter, and maps.įor statistics, R and occasionally Stata, and Stan or JAGS for Bayesian modelling. My previous phone was an iPhone – at that time, the cheap competitors weren’t really good enough. It was the least expensive phone I could find that had a good-enough display to read e-books properly. My new phone is from Sony, an older-generation Android phone. They are a bit expensive, but worth it.Ĭurrently, I also use an iMac as a desktop, with the university’s Linux-based cluster for serious computing, but I have also recently used Linux on a cheap white-box PC. ![]() They are nicely solid, have reasonable keyboards, run Unix, and support the Microsoft software that my collaborators use. I currently have an aluminium MacBook from 2009 and am waiting on delivery of an 11in MacBook Air. I teach, do research in statistics and in epidemiology, and contribute to R. Aquamacs feels just right on the Mac, interacts well with other apps, while supporting Emacs keys and Elisp packages. I’m a statistics professor at the University of Auckland. Aquamacs Emacs is a Mac-native distribution of the powerful Emacs text editor (versions 23+), featuring Plug&Play and a great UI. ![]()
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