@samhenrigold @timixretroplays Great essay! This resonated a lot with me.
I learnt how to program on a Commodore 64 and Amiga – extremely limited machines by today’s standards. When I hit the limits of what I could do tinkering in BASIC on them in high school I popped the hood and taught myself how to code in assembler to make things run faster.
Fast forward 35 years and I now have a PhD in computer science and work at Apple. :)
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Work: Machine Learning Engineer at Apple, previously a Research Fellow in learning theory at the Australian National University. Play: #trailrunning, #marathon, #eurorack, #jazz, #guitar, #piano, #bass, #snowboarding, #gogame, #photography Based in Canberra, Australia 🇦🇺.
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