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I'm a Math/Computer Science student at the University of Waterloo. I grew up in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
In my free time, I write code for open-source and my own projects. Away from the keyboard, I enjoy reading, sailing, running, geocaching, travel, and learning French.
You can find me on LinkedIn, twitter, and Facebook. You can also contact me the old-fashioned way at blog@paulbutler.org. Here is my résumé.
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Category Archives: Ruby
Why R doesn't suck
I first encountered the R programming language a few years ago when I needed to make some plots. Although I’ve used it occasionally since, I always considered it a sort of “Perl for statisticians” — a useful swiss-army knife with … Continue reading
Posted in Data Mining, Haskell, Math, Programming, Python, R, Ruby
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Garden Path Sentences
I recently came across an interesting post on the Powerset Blog recently about garden path sentences. Garden path sentences are sentences that lead you down the wrong path through a string of words with multiple meanings. For example, The complex … Continue reading
Posted in Python, Ruby
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