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My Wedding Ring is a Dollar

As those of you that know me likely know, Emma and I have been hard at work preparing for our wedding, which is now officially less than one month away! We got Emma’s

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Reflection

Let's Talk About BellLetsTalk

The BellLetsTalk campaign is an initiative to raise awareness and end stigma surrounding Canadian’s Mental Health. Largely the ad campaign (yes, it’s an ad campaign, if it was purely an outreach initiative their

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Reflection •  Academia

Attending A Refreshingly Well-Run Conference

I’ve always had an excitable, yet tentative outlook on academic conferences. Most conferences that I’ve attended over the past year and a half of my Masters in CompSci have represented (as they should)

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Computer-science •  Academia

Encountering The R Programming Language In The Wild

If you’ve made it this far, you may have read the previous papers in this 6650(01) sega; Why the C Programming Language Deserves an F & A Scripture Reading - ‘The Humble Programmer’,

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Computer-science •  Academia •  Review

'The Humble Programmer' by Edsger Dijsktra

It would be modest to call Edsger W. Dijkstra (May 1930 - August 2002) simply a programmer, computer scientist or software engineer. Dijkstra was; the father of structured programming, a visionary and a

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Reflection •  Academia

Exploring the Needs of a Community-Based Monitoring System in Rigolet, Nunatsiavut

Much like my first trip in November, I arrived at the airport at 6:30 in Goose Bay, and sleepily loaded my bags and self into the 19-seater Twin Otter airplane1, headed to Rigolet,

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Computer-science •  Academia •  Review

'Good Ideas Through The Looking Glass' by Niklaus Wirth

A spent a significantly larger portion of my time preparing for this assignment, than I did actually writing it. I read large sections of many of the papers and realized how difficult it

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