I visited ACMI (the Australian Centre for the Moving Image) in Melbourne this afternoon – a wonderful, free museum of film and gaming history.
This small exhibit of books caught my eye and it took me a few moments before I was hit by a wave of recognition: I had owned and/or borrowed all four of these books when I was 10 and basically learned how to program my Commodore Vic-20 from them.
It quite a jolt to have personal history and curated history overlap in such a specific way!
Mark Reid
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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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Mark Reid
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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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