Category Archives: Ruby

Why R doesn't suck

Posted on June 19, 2010 by Paul Butler

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 →

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Garden Path Sentences

Posted on June 27, 2007 by Paul Butler

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 | 8 Comments